Fat cat Senators refuse to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $6.25 an hour.

U.S. senators -- who draw salaries of $162,100 a year and enjoy a raft of perks -- have rejected a minimum wage hike from $5.15 an hour to $6.25 for blue-collar workers.

Unfucking believable! How can we expect these people to survive when gas costs over $3.00 a gallon? They could literally work all day and not be able to buy enough gas to get themselves home. These senate assholes have been living in their ivory towers for too long, they cannot imagine what it is like to live from paycheck to paycheck and come up short every single month. These people need to be allowed to have some dignity. They need to work and be paid adequately for that work.

I will have to give Senator Kennedy the last word on this subject.

"It is shameful that in America today, the richest and most powerful nation on earth, nearly a fifth of all children go to bed hungry at night because their parents, many of whom are working full time at the minimum wage, still can't make ends meet," Kennedy said.