Earlier this month I posted on the Democrats’ minimum wage bill pointing out that it exempted Samoa, an American territory, from the wage.  Conveniently, given that Delmonte - a company based in Nancy Pelosi’s home district which Pelosi’s husband has heavy financial interests in - has a tuna canning facility on Samoa and pays it’s workers there far below the current federal minimum wage.  Later the Democrats, red faced, said that they’d be modifying the minimum wage legislation to cover all American territories.

But, believe it or not, Democrats actually haven’t modified the minimum wage legislation.  That legislation has just passed through the House of Representatives without the exemption for Samoa removed, and now Senate Democrats are pushing the same bill through their chamber of Congress with the language exempting Samoa intact.

Shameless, no?  Do they think we’re stupid and would just forget about the issue so that they could pass this exemption anyway?

Not that I’m fond of destroying Samoa’s economy by shoving the minimum wage down the throats of that island’s citizens, and “destroy the economy” is exactly what Samoa’s non-voting delegate to the House says the minimum wage will do.  What I’m wondering is why Democrats, who champion the minimum wage, feel free to exempt their friends from it.

I mean, if the minimum wage is such a wonderful thing it should be applied to everyone, right?  And the Democrats’ political friends wouldn’t be trying to get out of it, right?