@Kolyo,
Are you just kidding me? Is sounds like it and I am not that gullible.
If you are kidding me you sure are making light of the hardships of others all to get a laugh. Well I do not find it funny one bit.
If you really did do that type of work (slaughtering cows with your bare hands) my respect and admiration for enduring such a terrible job, really.
I have worked in the blazing hot sun for many years in stoop labor in the fields for minimum wage and even less per day... So I do not find in this a subject garnering the least bit of humor.
One of my friends worked in the sewerage treatment plant and came out with all kinds of illnesses and unknown bacterial infections that have plagued him ever since and still has no health care. So for people like him, Obama Care is the top of my list of priorities and I find serious fault with anyone who opposes it.
It is time to stop being political and start being human and supporting the great thing Obama has done for the exploited low wage worker.
As for why 11 dollars per hour I don't know why... That is the figure the democrats in congress decided would help people at least be able to afford the average standard of living that the minimum wage at this time in inadequate to cover. And that is the figure the republicans voted down...
Just a guess not sure why you could not have figured that one out for yourself MM.
I also worked for nearly ten years in restaurants as a dishwasher wiping the food off people's plates with my hand for a wage that was not even close enough to pay my basic living expenses. Luckily I did not contract diseases from that labor. I just have a chronic bum back because of my work history and no one in particular to sue over it.
So if I can advocate that others do not live as I did I am front and center on their behalf and I will not let politics and the rich republican bastards at Fox News dilute my resolve as you MM apparently have.
Also, one of my ex boyfriends lost half a finger working on a dump truck and got no compensation at all... His next job he got headaches from pumping gas all day...
Before you go opposing Obama Care think of who you are denying health care to.