HAVE THEY NO SHAME , WHERE IS THEIR HUMANITY?

US Senate building
US Senate building

Every United States Senator will receive $2800 increase in their salaries come January 1st 2015. This includes the 41 Republicans who vot­ed to block an increase in the min­i­mum wage. Congress: Leadership Members’ Salary (2014)
Leaders of the House and Senate are paid a high­er salary than rank-and-file mem­bers. Majority Party Leader — .$193,400 Minority Party Leader — $193,400. Rank and file mem­bers of the Senate makes slight­ly less. Each year a cost-of-liv­ing-adjust­ment (COLA) increase takes effect unless Congress votes to not accept it. http://​usgov​in​fo​.about​.com/​o​d​/​u​s​c​o​n​g​r​e​s​s​/​a​/​c​o​n​g​r​e​s​s​p​a​y​.​htm .

To a strug­gling fam­i­ly earn­ing min­i­mum wage, $2800 is a large sum of mon­ey. In addi­tion to Senators prince­ly salaries, this addi­tion­al increase is just anoth­er perk of office, paid for by the very tax-pay­ers they vot­ed should not receive an increase. Senators salaries come from the pock­ets of the peo­ple. An increase in the min­i­mum wage does not come from the pock­et of Senators. This is Government at it’s worst. An increase in the min­i­mum wage will not force one legit­i­mate busi­ness to close,It should not be a bur­den to any busi­ness oper­at­ing in sol­ven­cy to pay a liv­ing wage to their employ­ees. Paying a liv­ing wage to hard work­ing Americans is the right thing to do , it is the moral thing to do.

Forty one Republicans vot­ed to deny poor peo­ple a liv­ing wage. The annu­al increase to the salaries of Senators and Congressmen are designed to off­set cost of liv­ing increas­es. Where do the poor turn to get a cost of liv­ing offset?