Hillary Fights for $15!

[Pryderi]

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

1. hahah K&R

[progressoid]

12. I'd like to rec this post.

[leveymg]

26. Hillary fights for about a Quarter Million Dollars per hour.

[bigwillq]

2. Bwah.

[Autumn]

3. She also supports “debt-free” tuition through student loan financing and a 20-year payback cap.

Because nothing says debt-free like student loan financing and a 20-year payback cap.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. LOL

"Friends, you too can be debt-free with just a 20-year debt!"

[Autumn]

7. Here's what someone else said

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280165795#post1

[beedle]

10. Yeah, and most

people will still have significant debt given the stagnant wages, so after 20 years that debt will be 'forgiven' --- after which it turns into a taxable income, due immediately, so then you'll need to take out another loan (not at prime rates since you've been such a delinquent bum with your student loan.)

[Duckhunter935]

4. Yep

One of Bernie's pie in the sky dreams. It will never happen, lol.

[pdsimdars]

33. you mean, it will never happen IN THIS COUNTRY

even when other countries seem to be able to do it.

[Duckhunter935]

40. Yes indeed

[azmom]

6. Too funny.

[Chasstev365]

8. Bernie should up it to $16 just to see if she will follow suit!

[SoLeftIAmRight]

17. lol

nice hit

[pdsimdars]

34. nicely played . . . ..

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

9. Another good one

[Hydra]

15. *Bwah!*

Perfect.

[desmiller]

31. Good one.

[Broward]

11. We're so lucky to have her.

[Lucinda]

13. She has never been against it in those places that can get it passed and handle the economics of it

She has said that all along. As a federal minimum, she feels 12.00 is more fiscally responsible. Not every state could handle those numbers without serious consequences.

[AllyCat]

16. Fiscal responsibility that still lifts NO ONE out of poverty.

[timmymoff]

19. she doesnt know what's she's for, she only knows what she is against.

Us.

[Lucinda]

20. Spoken like someone who hasn't bothered to do their homework. n/t

[timmymoff]

21. Doing my homework led me to that conclusion

[Dawgs]

24. How does Hillary know who can handle it?

Who told her...Wall Street, corporations, her advisors? Who?

Because, raising the minimum wage has NEVER caused the problems that the critics have claimed will happen.

[Lucinda]

25. A little common sense would go a long way on this issue.

It would be horrible in soooooo many small towns in this country that simply could not afford to more than double their minimum workers pay at this point in time. Not every business has the profit margin that they could even think about doing something like this.

When was the last time we implemented a "double the current minimum" successfully?

[Dawgs]

32. Bullshit. Those are Republican arguments and they've never been true.

And, "doubling the current minimum wage" won't even get it to a living wage. If a business can't afford to operate by paying a living wage for it's employees then they deserve to fail.

[MadDAsHell]

39. So you get your wish, and those employees go......where?

Granted, they'll have a lot of free time now that they're unemployed, but somehow I doubt they'll be using it to sing your praises for wishing their employer right out of business.

Further, have you considered that McDonalds workers, Walmart workers, etc. (the ones I assume have you all riled up) are but a fraction of the workforce?

Are you going to go ahead and wish out of their jobs the millions of hourly workers making under a living wage at not-for-profits?

Oh the horrible, horrible people that work at your local food bank...

[TheDormouse]

14. hilarious!

[Reter]

18. I don't know how anyone can support her

She's a true fraud.

[Scuba]

22. "True fraud" is my new favorite contradiction.

[geek tragedy]

23. Since July 2015

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/hillary-clinton-wants-fast-food-workers-make-more-money

Sanders supporters like memes better than facts.

[Politicalboi]

28. ONLY for NY

Because who doesn't live in NY. And she was pushing $12.00 an hour not $15.00. Neither help much 5 or 6 years from now.

[geek tragedy]

29. she was at a ceremony for the NY legislation yesterday

She supports $15 for NYC and other expensive areas.

Upstate $12 is more like $20-25 in NYC.

[auntpurl]

30. Yes, because there's a difference

between a NYC employer paying his employees $15 an hour, and an employer from middle of nowhere West Virginia paying his employees $15 an hour. It's not complicated!

[Hoyt]

37. California should have taken Clinton's $12 proposal, because they won't get $12 until 2019 under

the new law. Doesn't look like NY's law is any faster. I am glad to see states doing something. Our Congress sure won't.

[Jester Messiah]

27. True to form, she saw which way the wind was blowing. n/t

[840high]

36. She is a friggin' pathological liar.

[SheilaT]

38. You think I'd know better by now,

but I'm constantly amazed at how people who make millions and millions of dollars, or even those merely making a few hundred thousand, are so opposed to the lowest earners making more money.