Posted on 06/30/2015 6:23:33 AM PDT by lbryce
The Hillary Clinton campaign likes to brag about its frugal ways, but this austere philosophy is not applied consistently. Campaign manager John Podesta may take the bus every now and then, but the Clinton campaign is more than happy to pick up the rent tab for Hillarys personal office in Manhattan and to shell out for a private jet to make sure Hillary doesnt have to interact with any commoners before giving a speech on social inequality.
Meanwhile, the campaign has developed a fondness for unpaid interns, and is increasingly hesitant to pay even experienced employees who have previously held paid positions on Democratic campaigns. Some have dared to speak out, demanding to be paid, to be saved from squalor. The campaigns refusal to value its employees is causing problems for the flock of young staffers who are trying to find living quarters near the campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, where rent prices are so high that even their wealthy parents are reluctant to foot the bill. The New York Times reports [emphasis added]:
For decades, idealistic twenty-somethings have shunned higher-paying and more permanent jobs for the altruism and adrenaline rush of working to get a candidate to the White House. But the staffers who have signed up for the Clinton campaign face a daunting obstacle: the New York City real estate market
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Hillary Ping
Keep up the good work. It’s important to keep people looking at the REAL enemy. For every negative article on Democrats here there are about a hundred negative articles about Republicans.
Your comments will just end up redacted. :>}
One wonders will there be an attempt "draft" Gavin Newsom, the former Mayor of San Francisco and now Lt. Governor of California, as a possible Presidential candidate. He's WAY younger than Hillary Clinton, and that will make him a more viable candidate among younger voters.
Thank you for your post.
Albert Camus
she actually expects interns to travel to another city and still work for free?
The worst part of this is - these stupid people do it and then complain. It must be a trademark of the Democrats to not pay their help or their own bills.
I like your posts so keep them coming.
In the heavy cross that I bear continuing on in my quest ,I may very well end up like Sisyphus in matters of politics but I can tell you unequivocally that I won't end up at all happy.
Thank you most kindly for your fascinating comments.
Leon Bryce
The Myth of Sisyphus
Chapter 4: The Myth of Sisyphus
Camus is interested in Sisyphus' thoughts when marching down the mountain, to start anew. This is the truly tragic moment, when the hero becomes conscious of his wretched condition.
He does not have hope, but "there is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." Acknowledging the truth will conquer it; Sisyphus, just like the absurd man, keeps pushing. Camus claims that when Sisyphus acknowledges the futility of his task and the certainty of his fate, he is freed to realize the absurdity of his situation and to reach a state of contented acceptance. With a nod to the similarly cursed Greek hero Oedipus, Camus concludes that "all is well," indeed, that "one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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