2bltap Loc: Move to the Mainland

Good Ole Burned Out Bernie, the guy that was literally kicked out a commune for being to lazy to work meaning breaking sweat and not contributing anything worth of value now is capping about his workers brining to light the fact that he has to cut hours of his staff in order to pay the $15.00 minimum wage he he keeps yelling about for everyone else. I am going to say this about the minimum wage for families. YOU SHOULD NOT START A FAMILY IF ALL YOU CAN MAKE IS $15.00 AN HOUR!!!! GOT IT!!!! The whole concept about this is so damn stupid that every time I listen to the pro arguments for a family of fitiline hundred kids trying to survive on a parent's minimum wage job I lose brain cells. Those lower paying jobs were and are for first time experiences in the work force for Craps sake!!!!!!! In any event here is the story pertaining to this subject which proves that socialism NEVER EVER WORKS.
Semper Fi
Mike

Bernie Sanders campaign announces it will cut hours to pay staffers $15 minimum wage, prompting mockery
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Bernie Sanders' campaign staff demanding a 'living wage' and health careVideo
Bernie Sanders' campaign staff demanding a 'living wage' and health care
Bernie Sanders pushes for a $15 minimum wage during his campaign; reaction from 2016 Sanders campaign staffer Tezlyn Figaro.

Democrat p**********l candidate Bernie Sanders announced this weekend he will cut staffers' hours so that they can effectively be paid a $15-an-hour minimum wage, prompting mockery from critics who say the move is more evidence that Sanders' plan to raise the national minimum wage is hypocritical and would only lead to less work and more unemployment.

The Washington Post first reported last Thursday that Sanders' field staffers were upset that Sanders championed a $15 minimum wage on the campaign trail, and made headlines for railing against major corporations who pay "starvation wages" -- even as his own employees made "poverty wages."

In response, Sanders told The Des Moines Register he was "very proud" to lead the first major p**********l campaign with unionized workers, but also "bothered" that news of the internal strife had spilled into the media.

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The self-described socialist candidate said junior field organizers earn roughly $36,000 per year in salary, with employer-paid health care and sick leave. But he acknowledged that their salary can effectively dip below $15 per hour if staffers work much more than 40 hours per week, which is common on p**********l campaigns.

The solution is to "limit the number of hours staffers work to 42 or 43 each week to ensure they’re making the equivalent of $15 an hour," he told the Register's Brianne Pfannenstiel.

"It does bother me that people are going outside of the process and going to the media," Sanders added. "That is really not acceptable. It is really not what labor negotiations are about, and it's improper."

He went on to say that the union contract "not only provides pay of at least $15 an hour, it also provides, I think, the best health care benefits that any employer can provide for our field organizers."

WATCH: GUTFELD ON SANDERS' STAFF DEMANDING MORE WAGES

Reaction from commentators and lawmakers was unsparing.

"For the first time in his life, socialist Bernie Sanders practices economics and, buddy, the results are hilarious," wrote columnist and humorist Stephen Miller. He added: "Why won’t millionaire Bernie Sanders, who owns 3 homes, instead of cutting hours, pay his staff a living wage? People are starving."

Bernie Sanders' staff seek $15 minimum wage he has proposedVideo
Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw lambasted the discord in the Sanders' campaign -- which has been struggling in post-debate polls -- as beyond parody.

"So does this fall under the category of hypocrisy, irony, or poetic justice?" Crenshaw asked. "All three? Can’t make this stuff up."

Others pointed out that the change would not mean an increase in pay for Sanders' employees, and argued the move was merely a "cynical" way for Sanders to technically meet their demands rather than actually pay them more money.

"This situation is an instructive example of the downside of more than doubling the minimum wage," wrote The Blaze's Aaron Colen. "Companies don't just suddenly get more money to pay employees. They have to make tough decisions; usually either cutting hours, or worse, cutting staff."

Added The Daily Wire's Ashe Shcow: "This is just *chef’s kiss*." Ben Shaprio wrote, "In which Bernie Sanders learns about economics."

The development comes days after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluded that a proposed $15 federal minimum wage could result in 3.7 million people becoming unemployed -- far higher than House Democrats' estimates -- as employers struggle to make payroll and respond by slashing jobs and hours.

The CBO noted the "considerable uncertainty" in calculating the impact of the minimum wage from state to state, and indicated that up to 17 million Americans could see pay increases.

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Republican leaders have said a minimum wage hike would be “devastating” for middle-class families, citing CBO research finding that the minimum wage hike would also reduce business income, raise consumer prices and reduce the nation’s output. Overall, the CBO said the move would reduce real family income by about $9 billion in 2025 -- or 0.1 percent.

Nevertheless, the Democrat-controlled House last week v**ed in favor of a bill to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, unchanged since 2009. The bill is unlikely to see much traction in the Republican-controlled Senate.

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Tucker: Democratic v**ers don't really have a lot of choices
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The episode underscored a key vulnerability that has dogged Sanders' campaign for months, and which intensified after Sanders released ten years of his tax returns earlier this year. The documents showed Sanders and his wife paid a 26 percent effective tax rate on $561,293 in income, and made more than $1 million in both 2016 and 2017.

Despite advocating for socialism on the world stage, Sanders donated only $10,600 to charity in 2016 and $36,300 in 2017, the records showed, followed by nearly $19,000 in 2018.

Meanwhile, according to a letter from campaign staffers to Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir, workers were being "expected to build the largest grassroots organizing program in American history while making poverty wages."

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“Given our campaign’s commitment to fighting for a living wage of at least $15.00 an hour,” the letter continued, “we believe it is only fair that the campaign would carry through this commitment to its own field team.”

Sanders admitted in a combative Fox News town hall in April that "you're going to pay more in taxes" if he becomes president.

Fox News' Dom Callichio and Brie Stimson contributed to this report.

Seth

I read about Bernie's little wage dilemma, LOL, and the title was "Marx Bites Bernie."



If they took the hypocrisy out of a l*****t, it would be the equivalent of giving anyone else a lobotomy.

TommyRadd Loc: Midwest USA

And that’s the sad part: Bernie’s hypocrisy doesn’t even register with him. He just doesn’t get it... either economics or his hypocrisy! Or worse, and scarier, maybe he does get it and is that dishonest! Probably the latter. Can’t say it hasn’t been profitable for him.

Seth

That"s the way of socialism, though.

The rank & file get, supposedly, "what they need," while the top dogs get "what they want."

TommyRadd Loc: Midwest USA

And of course the opposite, liberty and equal opportunity, is what makes the USA exceptional, and something the l*****ts h**e.

Seth

Where "e******y" is concerned, they definitely embody the saying "some people are more equal than others."

GmanTerry

Why does ANYONE listen to Bernie Sanders? Why would you take any advice from someone who has never held a real job in his entire life. He has been a parisitic politician but never a wage earner. Would you take investment advice from him? He is a lazy Marxist who still doesn't understand how life works because he has never worked.

Semper Fi

TommyRadd Loc: Midwest USA

You just hit on the ultimate sad part: that so many misguided people do look up to him, and I’m guessing it’s because, not in spite of, the fact he’s figured out how to “make it” without working a day in his life. Too many people think the world owes them everything, so when Bernie promises, and he got his without working for it, they swallow his bait, hook, line and sinker!

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

Look at Sanders 2016 campaign. Before Hillary put him out of his misery, he was doing fairly well, about half the people I'd meet would say, "When Bernie is President." And I'd think they were out of their minds. Then I started getting emails 'Bernie bought a new car with supporter funds." "Bernie bought a house with supporter funds." And he seemed to feel no remorse for screwing them over. Then the first runoff and he was finished.