Posted on 02/04/2016 8:00:02 AM PST by rktman
Sanders has propelled himself to the near-top of the Democrats' favorite list based on, among many things, his support for a "living wage." "The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage," the irascible senator proclaimed at a Capitol Hill rally last year, "and [it] must be raised to a living wage." That's a nice, and unrealistic, sentiment. But the problem is that Sanders doesn't think his own employees deserve that kind of pay. According to the Media Research Center, the Sanders campaign pays its interns only $12 an hour. That's a hefty sum for phone bankers and coffee fetchers. But it's not enough to pay apartment rent and feed a family. Does Bernie not think his college-age employees deserve to live securely?
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The democrats have really scraped the bottom of the barrel for candidates this time around.
HYPOCRITE!!!
Hillary will be the Democrat nominee. Sanders will move to Venezuela after he is defeated and in a case of socialist poetic justice will get arrested for smuggling toilet paper into the country.
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