Sanders: DNC vetoed union leader pick for platform committee

[jmowreader]

90. So being told no repeatedly is fine with you?

In the 1993-94 session of Congress our young, idealistic Democratic president advanced several proposals and was told no repeatedly. We got Newt Gingrich's Contract On Americal Congress the next year.

In the 2009-10 session our young, idealistic Democratic president...ah, you know. The GOP gave us a Congress that made Newtie's look like Tip O'Neal was running it.

Now you're promulgating a candidate who has ideas that are totally unachievable, or that will have very bad side effects. Minimum wage is one. It needs to go up, but if you double the wage every employer in America who can't add a surcharge to his bills to compensate for it will fire half his MW employees to compensate. (People talk about Seatac, which did a $15 wage...they only applied it to hotels and restaurants, the hotels and restaurants add a Minimum Wage Surcharge to their bills, and no one gets their first job in Seatac anymore - the hotels and restaurants hire from other communities in the Sound area. Oh...and no one opens those businesses in Seatac anymore. You go north of 154th St, which puts you in Tukwila, or south of 216th, which is Des Moines. As general policy $15 would be a disaster.)