“six-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom home on 30 acres”
That property is less than a million?
Communism works until you run out of daddy’s money.............
Interns who expect to get paid is an alien idea to me. I thought internships were merely an opportunity to experience a real workplace while not being an employee.
Recently I started hearing about paid internships for some pretty specific roles (engineering, internet companies, etc.)
Internships for governments were usually for the nerds that were graduating with a poly sci or public administration degree. Back in the day, they were the place where you starting building your network that they could graft from when they started their careers.
I guess I am just an old fart.
I would deport the entire family. Just on principle.
The wealthy have always been the primary proponents of Communism as a means of exterminating the middle class.
That’s why the greatest chasm between the haves and have-nots exists in “Communist” countries.
Democrats hoisted on their own petard
Mina Farahmand made national headlines.....fired from
an unpaid post for Councilman Harvey Epstein (D-Manhattan).
The card-carrying member of the DSA “said” she was vengefully terminated for demanding Council interns be paid “a living wage” of $32 hourly — nearly double NYC’s existing minimum wage of $17 an hour – plus health benefits.
“She’s just another nepo-agitator whose surgeon father pulls in a six-figure salary ....she knowingly signed up for an unpaid internship, then demanded to be paid,” said former Councilman Robert Holden, a Democrat.
Idiot, she should be demanding at least $150/hour
Fifty years ago, I attended an elite university. I come from a blue-collar family and so, even though Dad provided us a comfortable living, I knew I was one of the lower-income students there. I was a member of a conservative student political organization and we had office space in the student union building. Next door to us was the office of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigage. I liked studying in the office because it was quiet and I could smoke there, and one evening, through the paper-thin walls, I heard one of the Maoist revolutionaries on the phone anxiously talking about how she didn’t know how to break it to her parents that she was a communist. I really had to control myself to keep from laughing. It would be interesting to find out how she turned out in life.
And they learn quickly without their rich parents pockets communism doesn’t work.
Back in the 60s Jerry Rubin used to preach to drop out, quit school, quit jobs, protest all the time and so on. Loudly proclaimed living without working while the saps with jobs paid for welfare for the hippies and later yippies.
It was later revealed Rubin all along had a large income from a trust fund. No worries for him.
Possibly if she had kept her mouth shut, supported the cause and been more patient she’d have gotten a paycheck courtesy of the taxpayer.
No sympathy for her, but even with my frugal lifestyle, doubt I could survive in NYFC on $32 an hour !
Give her a cigar.
Just a few questions:
1) You worked on the job for about a month and a half with no prior work experience and feel you are now worth twice the city’s minimum wage...why?
2) What did you major in?
3) In your graduation picture, what sash is that and what does the lion represent?
I interned at the state capitol back in the early 1980’s.
Part of my job was delivering the newspapers to the 16 or so politicos my office served. It was required that I wear a suit every day and so I had 4 or 5 suits to wear in rotation.
I quickly learned that newspaper ink was not dry and came off on clothes. This led to me having to dry clean my suits once a week. It was not cheap...somewhere between $20 and $25 a week.
One day towards the end of the semester I came to work in casual clothes with my suit in a dry cleaning bag (I had to change at work for some reason). My boss saw the bag and asked how often I dry cleaned my suits. I confessed that all my suits had to be dry cleaned every week, but it was no big deal...I didn’t want to be a problem. She got all upset - I thought at me - and said she was going to take care of it.
I had visions of my duties being changed or worse my internship being ended. Instead, a couple of days later, she gave me a check for $500 to cover my dry cleaning. That would be like getting $1500 today.
Much later I found out that this was a MAJOR issue within the delegation. Interns did NOT get paid. It only was approved because it was compensating me for out of pocket expenses directly associated with my position.
Paying interns over $30 an hour means that they are not interns...they’re employees. That opens a huge can of worms.