Salary Increase Averted! Amazing! Oh wait, just a Ploy.

As the lame duck session of congress expired the Democrats of all people stopped Congress from increasing pay for Congressional Representatives until the minimum wage is increased. Minimum wage? Are you kidding me? Has it not been shown yet that the minimum wage does NOTHING? Let me give you an example: here in Sioux Falls, SD where the mean income per family is around $30,000 most minimum wage jobs start at $8 per hour and sometimes up to $10. What would raising the minimum wage do? How about helping small businesses out so that they can flourish so that paying their employees is more possible than pushing it upon them by laws. Get real people...it should be a requirement that every kid take Economics 101 in High School and a year in College. If we start learning how an economy runs maybe we will start seeing how these laws do nothing but hurt an economy. Get real.