Snake Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Almost all of the lawmakers who co-sponsored a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour also hired unpaid interns to supplement their staffs, a survey shows. A report from the Employment Policies Institute reveals that 174 of the bill’s 184 co-sponsors, or 95 percent, hire interns who are paid nothing. http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/23/174-lawmakers-advocating-15-minimum-wage-hire-unpaid-interns/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Alan Simpson, the former senator from Wyoming, calls senior citizens 'the Greediest Generation' as he compared Social Security to a milk cow with 310 million teats. Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off but she also tells it like it is! "Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight !!!! 1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS. 2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63). 3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud. 4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN! 5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills. 6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent bastards" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt. To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU: 1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career? 2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers? 3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance? 4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies? It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed leech. That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it. And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch. NO, I did not stutter! P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements." WHAT AN INSULT!! I have been paying in to the SS system for 52 years! "It's my money" - give it back to me the way the system was originally designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Unpaid internships are bullshit .....but they often lead to incredible opportunities so some are willing to take them. The reality is that those people who are able to take an unpaid internship can likely weather a period of no compensation. A single mother working at jimmy johns cannot and any increase in their disposable income is a god send 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 22 minutes ago, f7ben said: Unpaid internships are bullshit .....but they often lead to incredible opportunities so some are willing to take them. The reality is that those people who are able to take an unpaid internship can likely weather a period of no compensation. A single mother working at jimmy johns cannot and any increase in their disposable income is a god send So it's elitists helping other elitists getting ahead. Isn't that what is happening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 26 minutes ago, racer254 said: So it's elitists helping other elitists getting ahead. Isn't that what is happening? absolutely ....you think they are giving internships on congress members staffs to poor peoples kids???? the fact that we are using this as a way to discredit someones vote to raise the min wage is kind of disingenuous wouldnt you say ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 3 minutes ago, f7ben said: absolutely ....you think they are giving internships on congress members staffs to poor peoples kids???? the fact that we are using this as a way to discredit someones vote to raise the min wage is kind of disingenuous wouldnt you say ??? You are 100% correct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 2 minutes ago, racer254 said: You are 100% correct the unpaid internship thing is a whole other level of disgusting and a totally separate issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 (edited) Maybe Trump being president instead of giving internships to the smart Harvard kids might lead to Goobers son Willy the dunce having a shot. Educated smart people need not apply. Edited June 23, 2017 by Mainecat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 trying so very hard .....and failing at the obvious easy stuff....damn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 3 hours ago, Mainecat said: Maybe Trump being president instead of giving internships to the smart Harvard kids might lead to Goobers son Willy the dunce having a shot. Educated smart people need not apply. just put it in your mouth and pull the trigger . your family cant take much more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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