Falling Prices, Climbing Wages

Wal-Mart is giving raises to half a million of their lowest earning employees. Naturally the HuffPo found a way to make the story all about Evil Republicans(tm):

"It is encouraging that the nation’s largest employer, Walmart, has recognized what Republicans in Congress fail to acknowledge: that $7.25 is significantly too low an hourly wage for any American worker," said Drew Hammill, spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). "We hope that this move will help convince Republicans to stop blocking efforts to raise the wage."

With Congress gridlocked, many states have moved ahead with raises to their own minimum wages, with a slate of ballot measures passing in the November elections.

Like the seething mass of ignorance they call a readership, the editors at HuffPo have once again failed to understand that so-called "gridlock" is the natural state of the federal government. It was designed that way by the Founding Fathers. The slow movement of the federal government and the difficulty of passing laws is a built-in protection against impulsive and imprudent decisions -- such as the Affordable Care Act, for example. If the House, Senate and Executive are at each others throats and the federal government is accomplishing nothing more than passing a budget every year, that's a good thing. It means they aren't meddling in your life and passing stupid, damaging laws -- such as the Affordable Care Act, for example.

Unfortunately, passing a budget is the one thing Democrats have refused to do for six years now, preferring instead to meddle in your life. So tell me again... who are the obstructionists?