This is the hell Americans are living in: the senate took 9 MONTHS to decide whether or not to give us more money during this pandemic. They finally decided to give every American $600.
Once.
Not monthly, not for several weeks.
Once.
Our minimum wage is $15.
That means they’re giving us one paycheck that is equal to a 40 hour a week work week at minimum wage.
J U S T O N C E
Took them 9 FUCKING months of raking in a senator’s fucking salary of cash into their pockets piddling and poking and getting tax breaks for themselves.
And this is what they give us.
THEY MAKE $174,000 PER YEAR.
That means:
Biweekly salary of $174,000 a year is $6,692 per 2 weeks Weekly salary of $174,000 a year is $3,346 per week Daily salary of $174,000 a year is $669 per day Hourly salary of $174,000 a year is $89.23 per hour
That means that in the 9 months they refused to give anyone money through this pandemic, have let people die and encouraged people to go out and get infected, they have made $120,456 EACH.
AND THEY WANT TO GIVE US $600.
ONCE.
This is primarily on Mitch McConnell. One of his sticking points is not giving the American people “too much money” because??? The democrats have been proposing more money for working class americans since MAY and Mitch won’t even let the senate VOTE on those proposals. If you live in georgia, please vote in the senate runoffs and vote for the democrats, because Mitch has way too much power right now and we can take away his majority with those two seats.
Also, it’s worth pointing out that federal minimum wage is actually only $7.25 per hour.
Also worth noting, employers in the U.S. can obtain certificates from the Department of Labor allowing them to pay workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
