[–] brother_tempus 7 points -5 points 2 points (+2|-7) ago
In response to Sander's 12-point plan which support Mr. hedges statement on Bernie's complicity to the staus-quo in DC ( which marches to the drumbeat of left-wing authoritarianism )
1 We have too much infrastructure now that we cannot afford. This is why it is crumbling. FDR and Eisenhower created a bubble in infrastructure from which we will never recover. With an $18 trillion dollar debt, we cannot afford what we have now much less repair it. All this is is a subsidy to the public unions at the cost of prosperity to the American taxpayer. The solution is to sell off what the states cannot afford and let the private sector take it over without having to tax anyone for maintenance.
2 As we have seen with the parade of bankruptcies with green energy companies despite receiving subsidies like the oil companies from the government, alternative energy is not ready for prime time and is nowhere close to prime time. The Europeans are learning this which is why countries like Germany are building 10 new coal plants because the promises made about alternative energy have not materialized nor will they for the foreseeable future. And again this is just a subsidy for special interest industries at the cost of prosperity for the tax payer bot in taxes taken and prices paid for their energy bills.
3 There are over a dozen programs now to help workers and everyone of them has failed. before you add anything new ( which the federal government shouldn't since there is no authorization for such policies in the Constitution ) , scrap what has failed first.
4 Unions already have it easy with laws that force non-union members to pay union dues anyways and programs in most states that preclude state governments and related industries from hiring non-union labor. besides as we have seen with the manufacturing centres, the automotive industries and recently Hostess .. unions kill businesses and job, they do note create any new jobs .
5 The goal of the minimum wage is to outlaw low paying jobs for the unskilled and inexperienced. The law, simply, says: it is illegal, and therefore criminal, for anyone to hire anyone else below the level of X dollars an hour. This means, plainly and simply, that a large number of free and voluntary wage contracts are now outlawed and hence that there will be a large amount of unemployment. Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs ( unemployment ) are the inevitable result.
6 Pay should be determined by merit not by gender
7 This is a government-created problems since you cannot have trade agreements without protecting special interests .... The easiest thing to do is revoke all trade treaties and let businesses trade with whom they want without any government interference
8 Until you remove the money the government is pumping into the education industry ( like it did in the housing industry until the government-created bubble popped) you will never get prices to lower for education. That means revoking Title IV, Pell Grants and other loans, entitlements, and subsidies
9 Won't happen until you break up the Federal Reserve, it is the biggest bank there is and it supports all the other banks under it.
10 So we can go the way of France and have death panels .. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/13/terminally-ill-allowed-to-be-put-into-deep-sleep-u/ .... Pass on that bullshit
11 These programs already consume nearly 2/3rd of the budget and are bankrupting the nation and show no signs of success. Adding more debt to the $18 trillion dollar debt we currently have is only going to get the US downgraded and making the interest on the debt be the biggest expense in the budget
12 I can support this if it is simplified and taxes lowered so people can keep more of their own money and then grow the economy instead of allowing government to steal it and flush it down an incinerator of deficit spending
Bernie's plans are not original and history has shown them to never work ... but the "fell good" message he peddles selling this failed ideas makes him a very dangerous snakeoil salesman and no different that Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush as stated by Mr. Hedges
[–] ShadowMongoose 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
So, do you just go on all of these threads copy/pasting this same little rant?
I'm not even going to bother pointing out the numerous flaws, because I imagine you've got the same copy/paste responses I saw the last time you posted this.
[–] brother_tempus 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
Small minds attack the messenger becausr they cannot refute the message
[–] brother_tempus 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
Small minds attack the messenger becausr they cannot refute the message
[–] RedditDead2005-2015 5 points -5 points 0 points (+0|-5) ago (edited ago)
I'm not a supporter of that Zionist Jew, but to be fair, interns are expected to give up pay for experience. It's not a job to make money for feeding families. When young people ask how they're supposed to get experience if no one will hire them, this is often the solution. However, unless you have parents that support you financially, it's not feasible for most college students just so they can have something to put on their resume when they graduate.
[–] Danbear 0 points 0 points 0 points (+0|-0) ago
In the US it is illegal for anyone to work unpaid, even interns.
If an internship is unpaid the intern can not legally offer any service that is a benefit to the company they are interning with in any way. Doing so is a labor law violation.
This law is completely ignored in most cases, but I have personally worked for a company that almost got sued to hell over it. Was a big investigation, all employees had to give depositions.
[–] Irregularignorance 0 points 0 points 0 points (+0|-0) ago
FTFY - I'm not a supporter of that guy
[–] secretsquirrel2 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Many legislators don't pay their interns at all. Most law students would work a Washington internship for free and more than a few students would be happy to pay for the privilege. A senate internship is a very valuable commodity. It says a lot about Senator Sanders that he is willing to stretch his administrative budget to not only pay his interns, but to pay them a better than minimum wage. In doing this he is opening up the opportunity to intern at the senate to those students who cannot afford the luxury of working for free.
So where I think you meant to smear the Senator, you have actually done just the opposite. **Thank you for showing us yet another instance of Bernie setting a positive example for his fellow legislators. **
[–] TexasComments [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Don't bullshit someone who has worked there, the law students working for free are doing so because they know that after six months they can start applying to DC law firms for six figure salaries if they worked for the right committees or congressmen.
Also to clarify he gets between $3M and $4.3M a year for his senate salaries in Vermont, a state so small you can drive through it in less than five hours end to end.
[–] secretsquirrel2 ago
It's not bullshit to say that there are law students who cannot work for six months for free.