And you aren't Creepy Joe Biden. And never will be.
Posted on 05/05/2020 5:40:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Joe Biden Monday called for an immediate $13 minimum wage increase for essential workers and criticized President Trump for viewing these front-liners as “disposable” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking at a virtual town hall with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the apparent Democratic nominee proposed giving employees required to work through the public health crisis - many of whom are minorities and are working in a “war zone” - a $13 minimum wage increase on top of their current salaries to ensure that they can sustain their families, especially if they were to get sick on the job.
Biden already supports a $15 minimum wage for federal workers, but is calling for this extra amount just for essential employees working in virus hotspots like meatpacking plants and hospitals while the crisis continues. He said that Congress is considering adding a policy like his latest proposal in the new CARES Act.
He stressed the need for essential employees to receive better pay, free coronavirus treatment regardless of their immigration status or health insurance, and paid sick leave during the outbreak.
“We can afford to do that,” Biden said.
Pre-empting the availability of a vaccine, Biden said the country must prepare now to ensure that all vaccines are free and accessible to everyone.
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Typical Democrat - see a problem, spend other people’s money.
Why not, comrade Hidalgo in Houston was paying some people $2500 a day for over a month with zero patients in her popup hospital near to the football stadium.
Since ‘we are all in this together’ start with an immediate 25% paycut for all politicians.
The same ‘math’ that showed Bloomberg “could’ve given” every American voter $1million with what he spent on his campaign
And you aren't Creepy Joe Biden. And never will be.
That's it in a nutshell.
Federal civilian employees should ONLY make $4.25/hr which is at least double what they are worth based on quality of work.
Is today “Make Wild Unsubstantiated Claims Day”?
To democrats, everyday is make wild unsubstantiated claims day.
“supermarket workers and health etc workers are able to be doing their jobs at this time”
We “nonessentials” actually are also heroes. If we didn’t buy stuff and get sick and injured, they’d be out of jobs.
> but when did the Laws of Supply and Demand get recinded?
They were temporarily placed in abeyance by printing a shite load of money.
“We can afford to do that,” Biden said.
Show me the math old man”
His answer:
“Uh, one plus I pooped my Depends.”
Indeed one of the few tools the dead party has left new cell phones to ensue.
Next the free stuff bus stops at every house daily.
This sounds like the Bill Romney was talking about although his was 12.95.
Yeah, that worked well in post-WWI Germany and more recently in Venezuela. Will they ever learn?
Best post of the day...
It only happened in the Bizzaro Democrat universe when they collectively stuck their heads up their big black holes and had their brains sucked out!
When money started growing on trees.
No problem, let him and his I WANT TO PAY MORE TAXES supporters Pay for it out of their own pockets LOL!!!
“Biden calls for immediate $13 minimum wage increase for frontline workers”
a piecemeal vote-buying scheme like this is hardly a “plan”, really nothing more than a paragraph out of the old Dem minimum-wage playbook ... though interesting that biden is dipping only one foot into the federal minimum wage swamp ... also, i wonder if he rally meant $15 but gaffed on $13, because $15 is the magic number for his kommie komrads, and it seems like JUST $13 for JUST “frontline” workers, whatever those are, would just PO EVERYBODY off, with kommies being unhappy with minimum wage lite, while conservatives would be unhappy with any increase at all ...
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