Representatives are better than so called “leaders”

My Indiana State Representative, Steve Heim, has been posting links on his blog directing people to editorials which suggest that Indiana’s legislators should be “leaders” and go ahead and lease Indiana’s toll road, disregarding the fact that the people of Indiana don’t want this to happen.
That’s exactly how arrogant the politicians were in Michigan in regards to the minimum wage. Even though the people of Michigan wanted the minimum wage to be increased, the politicians thought that they knew what was best for the people and that they would be “leaders” and do what the hell they wanted.
Then, the folks in Michigan prepared to put the issue on this Fall’s ballot as a constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage from the disgusting $5.15 per hour to $7.40 by June of 2008 in three incremental increases. The same thing is happening in Arizona.
Well, the Republican controlled Senate in Michigan started to feel the heat and knew that workers would boot their asses out this November if they didn’t do what the people wanted, so they voted unanimously to increase the minimum wage 44%.
Well, guess what the stinking minimum wage is in good old Indiana. Yep, a lousy $5.15 per hour. Indiana always does the minimum when it comes to workers. That’s exactly what “leaders” in congress do. And it hasn’t changed in nine long years. If I was working a job in Indiana which paid the minimum wage, I’d be packing my bags and moving to a more progressive state……like Michigan.
And while the minimum wage stays the same in Indiana, workers fall further and further behind. It's time for the so called “leaders” of Indiana begin to truly represent workers in our state and increase the minimum wage or face our boot in the next election. The same goes for the Indiana Toll Road.
And…if they refuse to do the will of the people, the people should fire them.