2016 Postmortem

Armstead

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40. That should not have been alerted on

Mon Nov 30, 2015, 04:34 PM

Nov 2015

But the dismissive tone towards people who believe in issues strongly -- especially a very basic and rather traditional liberal issue -- is still rather obnoxious.

It's like if I said I find the people who care that Clinton is female is hilarious because getting all worked up about gender equality is ridiculous and funny.

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What do we do with all the people who won't have a living wage under Hillary? [View all] pinebox Nov 2015 OP

Camp Weathervane is going to say ibegurpard Nov 2015 #1

Precisely pinebox Nov 2015 #4

Are there no prisons? PowerToThePeople Nov 2015 #2

I'm thinking pinebox Nov 2015 #7

Notice of corporate merger w0nderer Nov 2015 #52

First of all, nobody is going to get $15 just by upaloopa Nov 2015 #3

First off your first sentence says it all pinebox Nov 2015 #5

Don't tell me I said something I didn't upaloopa Nov 2015 #11

Your are putting words in people's mouths by saying they are Clinton allies Armstead Nov 2015 #12

Stop making up shit upaloopa Nov 2015 #13

You just wrote a whole post of shit, with presumptious assumptions Armstead Nov 2015 #18

lol Good one! pinebox Nov 2015 #22

Hey you said it pinebox Nov 2015 #16

+1000 nt Live and Learn Nov 2015 #49

+ another Scuba Dec 2015 #66

Jury Results Blue_Adept Nov 2015 #28

Hillary is aiming low ibegurpard Nov 2015 #6

I put no stock in anything a Bernie supporter upaloopa Nov 2015 #15

Facts hurt pinebox Nov 2015 #17

You have no facts so nothing hurts upaloopa Nov 2015 #19

No facts? pinebox Nov 2015 #25

Hope you're stocked up on Kleenex ibegurpard Nov 2015 #23

The firewall states are not going to deliver for Clinton. sleepyvoter Dec 2015 #67

The political discourse here has gone from painful to flat out amusing. NCTraveler Nov 2015 #8

How is a living wage amusing? Armstead Nov 2015 #14

The political discourse is amusing. I was pretty clear on that. Not sure how you missed it. NCTraveler Nov 2015 #27

Pie in the sky? Armstead Nov 2015 #39

yeah it's fucking hilarious isn't it? ibegurpard Nov 2015 #24

Yes, this level of political discourse is hilarious. NCTraveler Nov 2015 #29

ooops. NCTraveler Nov 2015 #31

That should not have been alerted on Armstead Nov 2015 #40

I have a tad riversedge Nov 2015 #45

I believe the Walmart UglyGreed Nov 2015 #9

I'm sure 'A modest Proposal' J.Swift has some ideas the R's and DL's (dem lite) would love n/t w0nderer Nov 2015 #10

Not raise their taxes. JaneyVee Nov 2015 #20

Has either candidate proposed raising taxes on the working poor? MannyGoldstein Nov 2015 #26

If companies can do that Melurkyoulongtime Nov 2015 #21

When does Bernie's $15 minimum wage go into effect, MineralMan Nov 2015 #30

When does Hillary's plan go into effect? pinebox Nov 2015 #35

And by 2020 that's probably be the equivalent of $9 an hour today Armstead Nov 2015 #41

That's not based on the current low rate of inflation. What are you basing it on? pnwmom Nov 2015 #57

Do you ever go shopping, or go to restauraunts or basically do anythiing involving money? Armstead Nov 2015 #62

Hillary is making an appearance with Warren Buffet and will push more people onto EITC a plan where Todays_Illusion Nov 2015 #32

Besides the fact that the OP ignores the reality of passing a minimum wage=$15 in a repub Congress Sancho Nov 2015 #33

And you ignore the fact ibegurpard Nov 2015 #34

Yes, she will make a difference... Sancho Nov 2015 #36

profit sharing??? ibegurpard Nov 2015 #47

Would you rather work for SAMS or Costco? Sancho Nov 2015 #54

And you think they are going to leap at the chance to work with Sanders? mythology Nov 2015 #50

And for some reasom you think $12 will be easier in a GOP congress? pinebox Nov 2015 #37

I know that profit sharing will work better than any minimum wage. Sancho Nov 2015 #42

Tax credit for profit sharing in lieu of higher wages? More Conservative Clintonomics Armstead Nov 2015 #43

Sorry you don't understand... Sancho Nov 2015 #44

I write about and talk to business for a living Armstead Nov 2015 #46

Math is the trouble here. whatthehey Nov 2015 #38

The math is the same as rent, utilities and supplies Armstead Nov 2015 #48

The same as they will do when Sanders is unable to get $15 an hour. Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #51

She'll "let them eat cake, then"... Purveyor Nov 2015 #53

Boom. Nailed it. /nt demwing Nov 2015 #59

Do really think that a $15 an hour minimum wage is going to pass with doc03 Nov 2015 #55

Hell no! Andy823 Nov 2015 #56

Do you think a $12 an hour minimum wage will pass with a Republican congress? pinebox Nov 2015 #58

Actually a $12 minimum wage may be obtainable. The $12 figure would still doc03 Dec 2015 #63

Doubtful pinebox Dec 2015 #64

Wages are stagnent because we have lost all our middle class UNION jobs. In the last doc03 Dec 2015 #69

I think it's deeper than that pinebox Dec 2015 #70

"I don't and I believe Hillary would put one in place who does." JTFrog Dec 2015 #71

They can do as they always have. Autumn Nov 2015 #60

JEB will fix it. yardwork Nov 2015 #61

Easy solution. $12.00 to start. Ease up to $15.00. oasis Dec 2015 #65

Yes starvation wages pinebox Dec 2015 #68