Could you live on $12.00 an hour? The minimum wage should be the wage a person makes that allows that person to pay minimum but necessary bills. Most people working the minimum wage are adults supporting families. They need to make enough to pay for food, lodging, clothing and basic utilities.
Let the Republicans take the other side of the minimum wage argument. I think we will win if we try, but a lot of retailers like WalMart like the US taxpayer subsidies they receive via the various low income family tax credits.
That is a wonderful recitation of the old school Republican indictment of the Democratic party. You are either a Republican or a Democrat suffering from the Stockholm syndrome.
You donāt have to be a communist or a socialist to support economic fairness and social justice. You can come out of your bunker now. The air if fit to breath.
āRegular Americansā ā the āangry, white maleā voter who handed elections to Nixon and Reagan. And are making their last stand with trump.
Bernie is so old and out of it he hasnāt noticed that those who arenāt dead arenāt a winning constituency anymore. He thinks he can disrespect women and minorities left and right and they would still come crawling to him in November because they have nowhere else to go.
But he hasnāt stopped to think ā he is insulting the very people he will need to win in order to court a demographic that is more naturally Trumpās constituency. What an idiot. He thinks a socialist whiner who is promising to raise their taxes is going to beat Trump with that demographic? That a few college kids who may or may not show up in November will make up for the people he is discouraging to vote?
This man is daily proving he is much too stupid to be president.
Whenever I see your handle, I think of a Townes Van Zandt song (actually, I donāt think TVZ wrote this one, but thatās where I heard it.) :
*"Where the Truckee runs down to the Carson Valley plain
There lies a maid, Darcy Farrow was her name
The Daughter of old Dundee and a fair one was she
The fairest flower that bloomed on the range
Now she was courted by young Vandermeer
And quite handsome was he, so I hear
He brought her silver rings and lacy things
and promised to wed before the snows fell that year."*
I could go onāonce the song starts playing in my head, thereās no stopping itābut itās a folk song, so suffice to say, things donāt work out so well for fair Darcy Farrow and young Vandermeer.
Iām sure chicks just think Pride and Prejudice and swoon.
Aside from all that, I still think youāre mostly fulla shit. Haha.
We need to talk about Sanders and how delusional he is in his prospects for California, and Iām going to excerpt a few lines from Willie Brown (because the link to his column wonāt work), former mayor of San Francisco, member of CA Assembly for 30 years and speaker for 15, and all around plugged in to SF/CA politics maven
One advantage Hillary Clinton has over Bernie Sanders in the upcoming California presidential primary is that her voters know how to vote.
Clintonās people are longtime registered Democrats. The ones who vote by mail ā and thatās most of them these days ā automatically get a Democratic presidential primary ballot in their packets [this would be me].
Many of the Sanders supporters who are driving up his poll numbers are young, first-time voters. Many registered as no party preference, or ādecline to state.ā
Decline-to-state voters donāt automatically receive a presidential primary ballot in their packets. They have to submit a mailed application to their county elections office to get one, and that application has to be delivered by Tuesday.
As for Clinton backing out of debating Sanders before the primary: Why should she debate? She is running for president of the United States, not president of the progressive society.
Besides, Hillary has more important things to worry about. Like picking a running mate.
My suggestion: Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
Her consumer protection credentials could help bring young Sanders voters into the fold. She could also ignite excitement on the Democratic side in a Clinton vs. Donald Trump contest.
So there it is, an attempt to cut through the thicket and speculation about June 7 though Iām in serious disagreement about Warren.
reallyā¦āregular Americansāā¦wtf does that even mean? You sound like a right wing republican and their āus real Americansā versus the evil leftā¦Seriously doubt most of Bernieās fanatics ever voted before and even more sure they never were a part of the Democratic Partyā¦
My daughter lives in a pretty low income part of the country, but when she was managing a retail store for about $12.00 per hour she worked long hours and needed subsidies from her parents to help with her sonās healthcare costs. She also looked forward to several thousand dollars Child Care and Earned Income Tax Credits, both of which are classified as welfare programs. The people really benefiting from keeping her wages low were the folks in the hedge fund that owned the retail chain where she worked for peanuts. She didnāt become independent until she her wages rose above $15.00 per hour.
He thinks he should get all the super delegates because the polls. These would be the ones that measure virtually unified GOP support for Trump while measuring support for Hillary as undercut by Bernie and his supporters who must have Bernie or the highwayā¦ Oh and Bernieās low negatives because the GOP has yet to get started on Bernieās admitted socialism and break-the-bank deficit spending which will play not well in Ohio, Florida, Missouri, Virginia, NC, NH and middle America in general when folks hear Trump tell them all about it-
āSocialist Bernieā
The most stinging indictment anybody can make of Hillary is that she is running a 1990s style identity politics campaign in 2016. That is she has lined up all of the left wing special interest groups based around Washington on the assumption that lining up all of those groups is the same thing as winning over all of their members. Politics doesnāt work that way anymore. What was a good strategy in Billās day and even in 2008, doesnāt make sense in the world of social media and reality television.
Donāt believe me ask Ted Cruz who banked on the āevangelicalā vote, which is the big single interest group on the Republican side, and came up a cropper to Donald Trump.
With all of the double speak, the dismissal of facts, and the skewing of perceptions based upon individual priorities and vantage points, I am actually surprised that Bernie has not just totally āgone for brokeā
kicked reality in the balls - and unilaterally issued an audacious proclamation followed by relentless chanting from his followers repeating Bernieās words proclaiming him now unquestionably be the - *substantive and conclusive" ā¦
"WINNER OF THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN PROCESS"
ā¦ just basically declare himself to already be the figurative āWINNERā
ā¦ and Hillary to be essentially and conclusively be the virtual āLOSERā ā¦
would expect them to proclaim that what they have now achieved is absolute proof positive of Bernieās triumph over the arcane & āriggedā delegate selection process ( and they would be totally dismissive of the minor technicalities of Clinton larger numbers a simply an artifact of institutional bias) ā¦ and all of his followers would relentlessly insist that when you account for the resistance that Bernie has had to deal with,it is unquestionably clear that Bernie has triumphed and is going to Cleveland as the - "WINNER OF THE PROCESS"
just relentlessly working the āperception is realityā and āchange perception to fit the reality you wantā approachā¦ this is how they could justify their -
ā¦ āYeah, Hillary has more votes and more delegates ā¦ but we say Bernie wonā reasoning.
How did Trump pull the evangelicals away from Cruz? You need to focus on winning all those people the traditional single interest groups canāt deliver. How do we get the tide of young people Bernie excited to believe we have their interests at heart?
Trumpās entire campaign has been based on one thing: kickin out the spics, keepin out the mooslims, and ātaking the country backā from the niggers. Itās the one thing that resonates throughout the Republican electorate, whether evangelicals or Ayn Rand lovers, social conservatives or fiscal ones. The one thing that unites them is a hatred for people of color, homos, and uppity bitches that exist outside of a kitchen.
Cruz lost precisely because heās āone oā them ethnicsā. His conservative credentials didnāt mean shit, with a name like Cruz. Shit, Cruz and Rubio embodied the thing that Trump was raging about: Latinos taking white peopleās jobs. Time to return the ultimate American job to the traditional white old man.
