Posted on 10/28/2014 4:19:23 PM PDT by Bettyprob
Often it seems as though there is no end to the lefts hypocrisy. And, the farther the left, the more apparent the hypocrisy. Such is the case with the Freedom Socialist Party, a national party.
The Freedom Socialist Party has strong ties to Seattle. According to the partys website, it actively campaigned for Kshama Sawant in her race for Seattle City Council. It helped secure union endorsements and donations, and near support from the King County Labor Council
The Freedom Socialist Party does differ from Sawant in one respect. You see, for this particular socialist party, a $15 minimum wage is just not good enough. Its national party platform calls for full-time employment (no part-time jobs allowed) and a $20 per hour minimum wage for all people. However, by every indication, the Freedom Socialist Party believes that what its platform states, and even what it helped implement in Seattle ($15 minimum wage), does not apply to itself.
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Go for it!
Why stop at $20? Make it $50/hour! Then everyone could be above average.
Story was one time a MS employee was standing outside the HQ building when Bill Gates walks up. The guy says “Just put in a twelve hour shift” and Gates replies “Oh, only working a half day?”
This the same Seattle Socialist Party demanding $20 and hour for pay but was trying to hire a website developer for $13.00 an hour?
May Seattle die an economic death. A city with a statue of Vladimir Lenin.
Six, Twelve hour days per week. That would be better. Keep the leftists out of trouble.
Why pay someone $20 an hour to take orders when your customers are willing to do it themselves for free?
Taco Bell and the socialists are actually on the same side. Neither wants to pay a bunch of people $7 an hour. However, I don't think the socialists are going to like Taco Bell's solution, because although computer programmers make more than $20 an hour, they only need 1 for every 500 or so minimum wage employees they will replace.
29 hours is full time
a ban on part time jobs is stupid and will hurt the young, old and poor the most.
In other words exactly what they intend.
yes. and most of the robots are made in China (or Japan)
undoubtably so.
people usually do intend the obvious consequences of their actions
especially when there’s plenty of previous germane experience where we can all see the results of similar actions
That's what I always tell 'em. Any time a liberal brings up raising the minimum wage, I tell them that if they really want to help, then make it $50/hr. I then sit back and watch the look on their faces. They know deep down that there has to be something wrong with that, but they can't figure out what it is.
Communism by any other name is still run by liberals.
Forcing buisnesses to dump the lazy so they can be wards of the state
Isn’t this that same group that was advertising for a web designer and was offering $13.00/hr. for the position?
“Freedom Socialist Party” is an oxymoron.
There’s no freedom in socialism.
Why the hell stop at $20/hour. Demand $200/hour! Yeah, then everybody will have “living wage.”
Seattle seeks to be the Detroit by the Sea.
How many full-time jobs have socialists created?
good luck !
I agree. I’m just pointing out that not everyone wants a full time job. Most do but not everyone. Some people need a part time job so they can do other things with their time, like take care of family members, go to school, homeschool their children ... or they are starting a small independent business on the side ... lots of reasons why someone would want a part time job.
I agree mandating things like they are trying to do is going to lose jobs, full and part time.
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