Posted on 12/25/2018 12:45:57 PM PST by Kaslin
Has anyone been louder in advocating for a higher minimum wage than New York's Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer?
He's bellowed that minimum wages should be raised to at least $12 an hour, attempting to shame Republicans for opposing him, by calling it, (kid you not), "a moral issue," as he put it. He's pretty much defined the Democratic Party in the minds of voters by his hammerings on the minimum wage. Then he went and put out an ad calling for unpaid interns. According to the New York Post:
WASHINGTON – Sen. Schumer listed job openings for unpaid interns — but said the posting was “made in error” after Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized members of Congress for seeking free labor.
alk about exploitation.
It is exploitation, as it deprives anyone who's not independently wealthy of the opportunity to serve in the Senate. For free unpaid interns under Schumer, they labor, and he gets the end product of it for nothing, presumably in exchange for a good job recommendation to work for money from someone else. Such a guy.
Here's the kicker: It's not like he doesn't have money to pay interns. Actually, he does, according to the New York Post - a $65,000 congressionally appropriated pot, for his particular office, for just that. Then he went and decided it would be better to get them for free, and, I suppose, use the money some other way, some pleasant way for him, I'm sure.
Like he wouldn't know better - just look at his official photo, contemplating to himself how he can exploit the interns.
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IIRC HER her husband owned part of the company or had stock.
Billie Jeff Clinton was the role model for how to treat interns.
Typical Democrat action. Want everyone else to pay. But they’re above the law .
Maybe what we need are some unpaid public servants.
Yes, her husband has investments in Samoan tuna.
She’s looking out for #1, herself and family.
Hell with the ‘little people’.
Nancy will have Alexandria whipped into shape shortly. Threats of an office in a broom closet.
Silly idealism of youth. Alex will soon learn.
ROFL, what a moron
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