Bernie gets a haircut in Lawrence Kansas

[HillareeeHillaraah]

27. I absolutely agree that minimum wage...

...is just that, a bare minimum. That's why I prefer to call it a living wage. I think we are both aiming toward the same point on the horizon.

I think of politics, getting legislation into law, as a bit of a chess match, the other side has really honed their game and until we have majorities in the house and senate, all we can do is out maneuver them.

I think that we overcome their national majority (i.e. Control of both houses) by outflanking them locally. We set $12 as a reachable national starting point - and that itself will be a tough slog. But it gives local communities a higher starting number to move up from. To pivot up from.

I think a national $15/hr shuts down the conversation in a town where $17-$20 is really what people need to live. At $12/hr nationally, people are bringing home more money but the conversation regionally is still open. A chess match.

I really do believe that living wage is a regional not national issue.

Gotta get back to work, the last word is yours, friend -