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Even the WaPo is reporting on the labor struggles that the self-identified socialist currently has with his staff, whose hourly pay for the lowest among them is only $13/hr. It's just another example of liberal hypocrisy.
No its not. Washington Post is owned by the richest man in the world and they hate anything that could lead to progressive change for the working classes of America. They're millionaires working for billionaires. "Change can wait" is their convenient mantra.
Bernie Sanders' own policy states that $15 will not happen the first day of his presidency, but will be a gradual increase over a number of years. He pays his own staff very well compared to any of his competitors and above his own $15 an hour minimum wage timeline.
Why am I not surprised. He also owns multiple properties, and got rich while IN OFFICE, supposedly as a public servant yet he screams at "the 1%" of which he is one. All the Democrats are hypocrites. Yes I know Bernie is an Independent, but he's really a Far Left Communist, New York Bolshevik stooge. There are many from that city, and many like Bernie became Carpetbaggers to spread their misery around the country. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is just one other example. Evie Hudak in Colorado was another.
No its not. Washington Post is owned by the richest man in the world and they hate anything that could lead to progressive change for the working classes of America. They're millionaires working for billionaires. "Change can wait" is their convenient mantra.
Bernie Sanders' own policy states that $15 will not happen the first day of his presidency, but will be a gradual increase over a number of years. He pays his own staff very well compared to any of his competitors and above his own $15 an hour minimum wage timeline.
Excuses, excuses.
The first thing he should have done, if he's pushing a harmful $15/hr (which would put more people out of work) is put his money where his mouth is. He doesn't need to follow a nationwide proposed timeline.
Why am I not surprised. He also owns multiple properties, and got rich while IN OFFICE, supposedly as a public servant yet he screams at "the 1%" of which he is one. All the Democrats are hypocrites. Yes I know Bernie is an Independent, but he's really a Far Left Communist, New York Bolshevik stooge. There are many from that city, and many like Bernie became Carpetbaggers to spread their misery around the country. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is just one other example. Evie Hudak in Colorado was another.
His "multiple properties" is simply his own home he has lived in Vermont for decades, his apartment in DC where he works and his wife inherited a cabin from her diseased parents.
Bernie Sanders is the poorest man in the Senate and could have sold out to Wall Street like the rest of the corrupt ones a long time ago. Instead he advocates higher taxes on himself and fights non-stop to establish a proper public safety net for the 99%.
It’s true Sanders pays his interns $12 an hour, as noted by a page on the candidate’s own Senate web site that clearly states that “interns are paid $12 per hour.” This, however, does not necessarily mean that Sanders gave himself a “pass” on his proposal to raise the minimum wage.
However,
First, the above-displayed meme uses the confusing term “staff interns,” which has led many people to believe that the senator only pays his staff members $12 per hour. This pay rate, however, applies only interns (who in many occupational fields work without compensation or for very low pay in return for gaining valuable experience) filling positions available to college students and recent graduates seeking work in Congress:
Second, the national minimum wage does not apply to internships. The Fair Labor Standards Act lists six criteria (such as “the internship experience is for the benefit of the intern”) that private sector companies may meet in order to offer unpaid internships, and Congress has further exempted itself from some of these standards. According to an article published in the Atlantic, only one third of U.S. senators paid their interns anything at all in 2013.
It should also be noted that these $12 per hour internships are for positions working as aides to Sanders in the U.S. Senate, not for positions on his 2016 presidential campaign staff.
Why am I not surprised. He also owns multiple properties, and got rich while IN OFFICE, supposedly as a public servant yet he screams at "the 1%" of which he is one. All the Democrats are hypocrites. Yes I know Bernie is an Independent, but he's really a Far Left Communist, New York Bolshevik stooge. There are many from that city, and many like Bernie became Carpetbaggers to spread their misery around the country. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is just one other example. Evie Hudak in Colorado was another.
Yup. He went to the Soviet Union in the 1960s (on his honeymoon yet!), smack in the middle of the Cold War.
The first thing he should have done, if he's pushing a harmful $15/hr (which would put more people out of work) is put his money where his mouth is. He doesn't need to follow a nationwide proposed timeline.
Trump is actively bragging about low unemployment and higher wages for the people at the bottom while states and cities everywhere are increasing the minimum wage. Which Trump is against. Reality doesnt match with the scaremongering rhetoric about the minimum wage.
Sanders doesnt follow a nationwide timeline. He gives his workers more than his own policy would suggest. And one of the reasons for a nationwide minimum wage floor is exactly to prevent employers from offering far less and try to undercut businesses that do the right thing. If Sanders offered $20 an hour and his competitors offered $9 an hour, it has an effect on the campaign.
His "multiple properties" is simply his own home he has lived in Vermont for decades, his apartment in DC where he works and his wife inherited a cabin from her diseased parents.
Bernie Sanders is the poorest man in the Senate and could have sold out to Wall Street like the rest of the corrupt ones a long time ago. Instead he advocates higher taxes on himself and fights non-stop to establish a proper public safety net for the 99%.
The poorest man in the Senate has a net worth of nearly $3 million and earned more than a million last year? He's one of the 1%.
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