The pro worker decade is here now (#4442)

      With the advent of the election in 2020, and to Georgia's senate special elections in 2021, we currently find ourselves with worker friendly paradigms in government and public opinion arena's. So with little time to waste, we need our legislators to wrangle the best outcomes for workers who have been put on the backburner for decades. The middle class has been so devastated due to republican conservative devotion to the wealthy that the current life support for the working middle poor class is about to run out. At no time in the recent modern history of our nation has a single political party, republicans, been so adamantly opposed to lifting up our poor and lower middle class citizens to reasonably sufficient livable wages.
     The national minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour for more than a decade. So comparing the average price of a new home the last time the minimum wage was increased in 2009 we find a new home selling for less than $230.000. Today, in 2021, we find a new home selling for over $408.000. The price difference is nearly doubled for new home buying while the minimum wage has not budged from the 2009 amount of $7.25 an hour. The idea that the federal minimum sage didn't need increasing to keep up with prices as they increased over the years since the last federal minimum wage hike is ludicrous. This has been the republican mantra all along that the federal minimum wage is fine where it is at or lower, and even worse, many within the republican party want no federal minimum wage at all!
     Like I said earlier is that under republican conservative dogma the worker in the US is more like chattel when slavery was their economic model than independent market suppliers of labor. Enough of this backwards indentured thinking and now is the time to erase it by advancing the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour and creating more social programs that supplement workers and their families as they struggle to have a fair and equitable life. We have the votes to do many things and where we are weakest in that link we need to put pressure on those weak links to strengthen their commitment to the majority of American citizens within the working middle poor class.