Harry Reid is threatening to block the congressional raise that the fat cats have voted themselves unless congress passes a new Minimum Wage law.  GREAT.  The last people who deserve a raise is those tin plated buffoons!  And if it takes an impotent threat by Reid (he cannot block the house raise as each house does its own thing even if they usually do it together) to kill their pay raise, I am all for it.

But I am afraid the Caspare milquetoasts of republicans will cave.  And doom another generation of poor minority teenagers to a life of need because no one is going to hire a no experience person for the same price they can hire an experienced one.

Yes, raising the minimum wage hurts teenage hiring.  When those people are just starting out and need to learn a work ethic and responsiblity, the raised minimum wage works against them and makes sure they do not have a chance.  It is the worst possible legislation as it penalizes the least among us that are able to fight against it.  Yet it "feels good" so the democrats love it.  Ignoring the mountains of empircal data that shows it does more harm than good.

So hopefully, Reid will follow through on his promise (and the house will delay theirs out of sympathy for the Senate) and the Republicans will stick to their guns, and for once - in a long while - we will have a good congress. 

One that does nothing.