The Minimum Wage...

$5.15 per hour * 40 hrs/week = $206.00 / week
$206.00 * 52 = $10,712.00 (not including the tax we must pay)

That's not a minimum wage - that is nearly slavery. How can you possibly expect a person to survive on such wages? Let alone raise a family, pay for health car, pay for outragously priced gas to get to that underpaying insult of a job, and occasionally eat ramen noodles. If you think that $5.15 is a liveable wage, you obviously have never tried it. (and probably serve in the Senate...) (I should note that as a UNIVERSITY LECTURER, I made LESS money than that...but that is another story)

Both parties are to blame. Our Senate has failed us - yet again. On both sides, our representatives fulfill their own agendas and coffers while passing laws they rarely even read about issues they probably do not understand. All with only one hope - to get re-elected. It's a disgrace. Of course, that's what you get when a majority of the people don't vote or cast votes about moral issues that don't have squat to do with governance. Folks, the system is broken...