Didn’t Pelosi exempt the American Somoa fishing industry from the minimum wage increase?
It does look like a beautiful place though.
And I love your sig line, “The way things ought err...used to be”...LOL!
I do recall something about Pelosi and American Samoa.
Hildy won big in Samoa. She may need those 9 delegates after all!
How come the poor Samoans don't get a "living wage"? Why are they consigned to "virtual slavery" at the hands of the Rats?
From the link:
Over at The Corner, Kathryn Jean Lopez reported GOP Reps. Eric Cantor and Patrick McHenry have found there's a loophole in the new minimum-wage increase: no hike for American Samoa. Why? Star-Kist Tuna is a major employer there, with its headquarters in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district.
Will the media notice? FNC did. But so far, the rest of the political media have treated the minimum-wage as about as controversial as a post-office naming bill. But in 2005, we reported the media's Tom DeLay bashers had a fit about DeLay's Abramoff-lobbied coziness with low wages on the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific.
PBS's Bill Moyers show "Now" (handed off to the suitably smarmy David Brancaccio) devoted a show to how DeLay was supporting "virtual slavery" in the Pacific. The slavery charge came not only from Brancaccio, but from liberal Rep. George Miller -- Pelosi's across-the-bay neighbor.
Where's the media asking: what about the children of Samoa? Will PBS and George Miller throw a fit about the "virtual slavery" left untouched in Tuna Land?