Sanders vs. Amazon Intensifies as Senator Stands With Struggling Workers Against World's Richest Man

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Bottom line: No one working for the wealthiest person on Earth should have to rely on food stamps. No one working for a man who earns $260 million a day should be forced to sleep in their car. Yet that is what's happening at Amazon.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/29/sanders-vs-amazon-intensifies-senator-stands-struggling-workers-against-worlds?cd-


The same can be said, and has been said, about the Walton family. When these predatory corporations pay a sub-living wage, and when these corporations hand out literature to their new employees showing them how to apply for state or Federal aid, they are externalizing their costs onto the taxpayers.

Why should American workers subsidize these billionaires?

[theaocp]

1. My household has cut all ties from Amazon.

The same as we did to the Waltons eons ago. I will not support them.

[guillaumeb]

2. Unfortunately, with 40 years of essentially stagnant wages,

many workers go for the cheapest alternative. A race to the bottom for most workers while the 1% becomes ever richer.

[democratisphere]

3. We shouldn't be subsidizing billionaires and I am getting f'ing sick and tired of it.

Wealthiest Welfare needs to be stopped without further damage and harm to the workers of these monetarily gorged heinous creatures.

[guillaumeb]

4. Rather than a minimum wage,

what we need is a living wage. The minimum wage is poverty level, and workers need a living wage.

[democratisphere]

5. I so agree with you!

Time to start putting employees before the greedmongering investor class.

[Omaha Steve]

6. K&R!

[guillaumeb]

8. Thank you Omaha Steve,

and one hopes you are feeling well.

[emulatorloo]

7. Sanders needs to pull his books off of Amazon n/t

[guillaumeb]

9. Amazon has put many bookstores out of business.

Making it the only store for many.

[emulatorloo]

12. Sanders needs to pull his books off of Amazon

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. What's the "vs"? A rhetoric war? Sanders callouts?

[guillaumeb]

11. It is a recognition that Sanders' positions are opposed

to those of sociopathic billionaires like Jeff Bezos, the Walton family, and the other thieves who steal from their workers, and the US taxpayers at large, by paying sub-living wages.

And, recognize it or not, it is a fight. One fight in the endless class warfare in the US that the rich have been winning.