Democrat presidential 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 presidential campaign with unionized workers, but also “bothered” that news of the internal strife had spilled into the media.
Yes. In leftist Utopia, news of actual dystopia is suppressed.
You could hit these people in the head with a bat everyday and they still wouldn’t get it. Btw buy bats.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know the actual average educational level of Sanders staffers?
Just to compare their salaries with that of their equivalent peers.
Show of hands, Democrat candidates: Which of you will take the pledge to pay $15 an hour to your staffers?
Suck it in, staffers.
Speaking of socialism, what’s going on with Venezuela?
Why aren’t they working for free? What are they, greedy Capitalists who want to be rewarded for their work? Grow up kids and realize you’re ship is sinking.
Isn’t this what common sense people have been saying would happen if you raised minimum to 15$?
Why not $45, just to be fair?
If that ain’t in the “You can’t make this shit up!” category I don’t know what is.
Bernie believes people should be paid at least $15.00 an hour of OTHER people’s money — not his.
Just amazing.
Sanders can’t, can’t, be a human being. He’s got to be from another planet, for not only doing it, but thinking he could get away with it.
If he still thinks of rabid neo-Nazis as his enemy, he has given them a lot of ammunition with this thing. If Hitler was alive, he’d be going: “See what I mean about the Jews?”
Just amazing.
F it let’s just give everyone everything and be done with it.
There’s a reason why he couldn’t make it in a commune.
He’s the kind of guy that if they were going to make a group dinner he would bring a can of asparagus and a small on at that.
@Toenex (at 6:48 pm): Asparagus makes your pee smell bad. I’m betting Bernie’s smells bad enough already.