Burgess Owens: “So there is a kind of war on the poor. I want to yield to the gentlewoman from Georgia and say to her that her State is…”

“So there is a kind of war on the poor. I want to yield to the gentlewoman from Georgia and say to her that her State is about the same in terms of the percentage of people who are making only the minimum wage, working people who are earning only the minimum wage, about 11.9 percent in Georgia. Well, I would begin by thanking the gentleman from New York for reserving this time so that we could talk about how America does need a raise, and our constituents, in particular, need to have a raise. I brought with me a cartoon from the Washington Post, Saturday, April 13. I want to read this cartoon. It says: ``The bad news, Johnson, is you are being let go. The good news is you can have your old job back at half your former pay.'' And then poor Johnson says: ``I can't live on that.'' And then his boss says: ``The rest of the good news is we can offer you a second job, also at half your former pay.'' The title of this cartoon is job growth. And now at the bottom it says: ``I'd offer you a third, but I'm afraid of overheating the economy.''”