Anthony Bourdain slams ‘privileged’ liberals for ‘utter contempt’ of working class (independent, insurance)
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I negotiated a raise or two back when I was an employee rather than an employer, and I dare say I had more success at it than Bernie's campaign did. You guys got nothing, and Trump will make sure it stays that way.
Trump's labor secretary doesn't believe in the minimum wage or breaks. He would rather employ robots per his own statement.
NOT lookin good for the minimum wage workers but . . we'll see.
Trump's labor secretary doesn't believe in the minimum wage or breaks. He would rather employ robots per his own statement.
NOT lookin good for the minimum wage workers but . . we'll see.
So would I. I'm not in business to run an adult daycare center, and that's what it's turning into. We've always paid more than minimum, but I'm starting to question that policy.
I negotiated a raise or two back when I was an employee rather than an employer, and I dare say I had more success at it than Bernie's campaign did. You guys got nothing, and Trump will make sure it stays that way.
Actually, the TPP is dead in the water now and that was a major part of Bernie's campaign so its not all bad. Minimum wage increases has won big victories in a lot of states partly as a result of Bernie's campaign. Bernie changed the conversation big time. It would have been pushed through under Clinton making medicine extremely expensive for poor people in Asia and would further hollow out manufacturing in America.
And the article is saying that you are not going to win by demeaning and Calling others names. In questioning their thinking. The ONLY way is to provide a better alternative AND actually follow through.
Excuses. Excuses will not win anything.
Which is what many posters on CD do every single day, several times per day.
Actually, the TPP is dead in the water now and that was a major part of Bernie's campaign so its not all bad. Minimum wage increases has won big victories in a lot of states partly as a result of Bernie's campaign. Bernie changed the conversation big time. It would have been pushed through under Clinton making medicine extremely expensive for poor people in Asia and would further hollow out manufacturing in America.
The $15 originated with Occupy, not with Bernie. He mainstreamed and co-opted many of their ideals, but the conversation actually changed via Seattle's City Council. A significant number of jurisdictions followed suit before Bernie even announced his candidacy; it may or may not have retained its momentum independently of Bernie's campaign.
No liberal I know "mocks" or "treats with contempt" working class America. This is just another stupid anti-liberal meme making the rounds. You know who does, though? Wall Street and Donald Trump and his new cabinet of 1%-ers. They're laughing all the way to the bank at the working-class Trump supporters who actually thought that Trump was an "outsider" who would "drain the swamp" of East Coast "elites."
Trump's labor secretary doesn't believe in the minimum wage or breaks. He would rather employ robots per his own statement.
NOT lookin good for the minimum wage workers but . . we'll see.
The minimum wage debate has already moved to the states; MW just went up in 19 states.
Inconvenient truth:
Because a minimum wage increase does NOTHING to resolve the underlying, intractable problem that fuels protests for a higher minimum wage, no minimum wage increase will ever be sustainable long-term.
Because this society lacks the political will to resolve the shortage of housing affordable to minimum wage earners, rents will merely by bid up further, and protesters will soon be back demanding another minimum wage increase.
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