It's all about the little guy, REALLY!

Chicago aldermen passed a bill that requires big-box stores, including Wal-Mart, to pay a so-called living wage.

The Chicago ordinance requires big-box retailers that are 90,000 square feet or more and generate $1 billion in annual sales to pay workers a minimum wage of $10 an hour and $3 in benefits by 2010. It's the first ordinance of its kind in a major city and affects a total of 19 retailers, including Target, Sears, Home Depot and Bloomingdale's.

BUT THINGS AREN'T WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE!!!!

Chicago's aldermen also voted themselves a "LIVING WAGE" that would see their $98,125 a year salaries rise with inflation over the next four years.

By mandating wage and benefit standards for "big-box" retailers, the aldermen can claim they did more than raise their own pay. It was also the third time a "living wage" was approved on the same day as a pay raise for the alderman.

I'm reminded of this quote...."A liberal is someone who thinks it is all right for an 18-year-old girl to perform in a porn film so long as she is paid the minimum wage." Irving Kristol