Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona was a Green Party icon & committed antiwar pro-poor people activist...She Went to Washington & became a monster

[basquebromance]

Kyrsten Sinema Went to Washington and Became a Monster

Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema was once a Green Party member and a committed antiwar activist. Now she’s best known for a viral thumbs-down on a $15 minimum wage vote. It’s the timeless story of an earnest do-gooder turned Washington monster and what happens when we don’t hold politicians...

jacobinmag.com

we should abolish the Senate and let California (the House) run America!

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

Kyrsten Sinema Went to Washington and Became a Monster

Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema was once a Green Party member and a committed antiwar activist. Now she’s best known for a viral thumbs-down on a $15 minimum wage vote. It’s the timeless story of an earnest do-gooder turned Washington monster and what happens when we don’t hold politicians...

jacobinmag.com

we should abolish the Senate and let California (the House) run America!

WYHEO?

 

[Utilitarian]

The article makes some great points about corporate influence corrupting Sinema, but given Jacobin's left-wing economics, they miss the mark on the minimum wage bill.

Raising the minimum wage nationally to $15 would kill a lot of small businesses in cheaper areas of the country. If Jacobin was more economically literate, they'd understand that.

The bill would have been more acceptable if the raise was $10 instead.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I think Sinema is smart enough to understand that she represents a state that probably still leans to the right, so she is doing what's in her best interest to keep her job.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Minimum salaries should be set on a State by State basis.
15 dollars an hour in some roadside cafe in the Appalachian mountains is just not doable.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Minimum salaries should be set on a State by State basis.

Actually, the market, not the government, should be deciding that, but if people are insistent on a minimum requirement, the more local the better.

 

[Shelzin]

WYHEO?

Why you hate each other?
Will you help eating oreos?
Want your healthy enlarged ovaries?


WTF is that?

 

[MarathonMike]

I am very happy to see Sinema has turned out to be more center-Left than Socialist.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

we should abolish the Senate and let California (the House) run America!

Why not just carpet bomb America with nukes if you hate it so much?

Maybe you are angry at Manchin and Sinema? Because they are all that stands between the democrats
one party rule (like the Nazis, Soviet Union, the CCP, etc.) and America as we've always known it?

What is it that you like so much about California? You have a fetish for dystopic incompetents running
things?

 

[Jets]

She is a Blue Dog democrat in a state that leans right.

 

[task0778]

She voted against the Green New Deal, the $15 M-Wage, abolishing the filibuster, and giving a relief check to illegals. And while in the House she voted for Kate's Law and voted to repeal the estate tax, so I give her some credit even though she's a Dem. Says Joe Manchin is her role model though.

 

[candycorn]

Yeah, she's pretty scary. LOL

 

[DrLove]

Can't the little people just eat cake?

Grant people a living $15-an-hour wage? Sen. Kyrsten Sinema would rather they eat cake

Forget the $15-an-hour minimum wage or immigration and election reform. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema apparently wants the little people to eat cake instead.

www.azcentral.com

 

[Utilitarian]

Can't the little people just eat cake?

Grant people a living $15-an-hour wage? Sen. Kyrsten Sinema would rather they eat cake

Forget the $15-an-hour minimum wage or immigration and election reform. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema apparently wants the little people to eat cake instead.

www.azcentral.com

The little people will eat a lot less cake if they're out of a job.

 

[basquebromance]

A vote against a $15 minimum wage is a vote to keep people in poverty.

That was not a moderate vote.
That was not a conservative vote.
That “NO” vote in the Senate was an oppressive vote

 

[DrLove]

A vote against a $15 minimum wage is a vote to keep people in poverty.

That was not a moderate vote.
That was not a conservative vote.
That “NO” vote in the Senate was an oppressive vote

A standalone bill by D's should propose 12 bucks, and mandatory 18 for time over 40.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

A vote against a $15 minimum wage is a vote to keep people in poverty.

That was not a moderate vote.
That was not a conservative vote.
That “NO” vote in the Senate was an oppressive vote

Nonsense.
Giving poor people a higher salary just means that the things they buy will get more expensive.
If it costs 15 dollars an hour for a fruit picker, a lemon will soon cost you 1 dollar.
It's all relative.
You can earn 5 dollars an hour in some latin American country, but a lunch would cost you 2 dollars.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

A vote against a $15 minimum wage is a vote to keep people in poverty.

That was not a moderate vote.
That was not a conservative vote.
That “NO” vote in the Senate was an oppressive vote

A standalone bill by D's should propose 12 bucks, and mandatory 18 for time over 40.

Regardless of geographical location??

 

[DrLove]

A vote against a $15 minimum wage is a vote to keep people in poverty.

That was not a moderate vote.
That was not a conservative vote.
That “NO” vote in the Senate was an oppressive vote

A standalone bill by D's should propose 12 bucks, and mandatory 18 for time over 40.

Regardless of geographical location??

Yes. I don't care if you're in Bumfuck Kansas - NOBODY can live on $7.25 an hour.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

A vote against a $15 minimum wage is a vote to keep people in poverty.

That was not a moderate vote.
That was not a conservative vote.
That “NO” vote in the Senate was an oppressive vote

A standalone bill by D's should propose 12 bucks, and mandatory 18 for time over 40.

Regardless of geographical location??

Yes. I don't care if you're in Bumfuck Kansas - NOBODY can live on $7.25 an hour.

What you are proposing will lead to massive lay-offs.
The EU is quite similar to the US with each State and Nation have their own minimum wage.
If we said that people in Bulgaria should be paid the samed as Norway, then there wouldn't be a hotel, farm or restaurant left in Bulgaria.