Saturday, September 16, 2006

Why I won't vote for Santorum

I won't vote for Rick Santorum because he's voted against an increase in the minimum wage 13 times in the past 10 years while voting an increase in his own pay 3 times (and he said he wouldn't vote for a pay increase.) He also believes that families should be able to live on one salary and when both parents work they are being "selfish." He said "Making people struggle a bit is not necessarily the worst thing"(reported in Congressional Quarterly Weekly 9/12/03). Of course, as a Senator (and party leader) he makes somewhere in the vicinity of $183,000. The median household income in Pennsylvania (in 2004 - latest I could find) was $44,131. He also didn't bother to pay the Penn Hills (PA) School District for his kids to attend a Cyber School for PA residents when his kids live with him in Virginia. Now the state (of which I am a taxpayer) is paying over $50,000 to Penn Hills to settle the matter. The man is an incredible hypocrite.

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