Jesus Christ Sanders are you serious???

[hollowdweller]

133. You raise an important point. We do not value hard work in the US

It's interesting how even union members sometimes will complain somebody is being paid too much, when some union jobs pay so much because they are union jobs, not the skill level.

We hear a lot about agricultural workers. How they need illegals because "americans won't do those jobs". But maybe a lot of americans are just not in good enough shape to do those jobs??

Why is it that jobs involving physical exertion, which many people can't do are low paid?

I had a friend who was a migrant worker. She was a US citizen. She had to do a lot of traveling and also even in the winter when she was off she went out and exercised every day to stay in shape because unless she maintained a certain level of fitness she couldn't make money doing it. To me it was no difft than a teacher doing continuing education but she made less.

I remember one time they raised the min wage and I was all happy and the guy beside me was complaining that it sucked because that meant he moved down the ladder because the min wage earners were closer to him in pay now. Same guy never complained about some stock trader flipping a switch and making a million dollars with no effort. Or some CEO laying off a bunch of workers and then making a big bonus even though the company wasn't making money.

I applaud what Bernie is doing. Outreach. He's doing the job they gave him.

The examples above show how far we need to go in changing the mindset of people.

When people are as outraged about companies ripping off workers and people making obscene amounts of money just because they have money, without doing any hard work, instead of being upset when their fellow worker gets a raise or some person gets 200 dollars worth of food stamps a month then we'll be making progress.