"I'd love to hear anybody get up here and tell me that they could live on seven and a quarter an hour, they could live on eight bucks an hour, they could live on nine bucks an hour, YOU CAN'T."
-@SenSanders on the Senate floor right now
#FightFor15#RaiseTheWage
* Dems win power.
* Moderate Dems refuse to let Dems use power.
* Dems lose power.
* Moderate Dems blame progressives for being too radical.
* ad infinitum
We are at step 2 of the cycle.
@ArgoSachel @TedDouglass@Winter Thank you! It’s like when you hear a few lines from a song and then you gotta hear the whole song so you don’t have it stuck in your head all day😆🤦🏻♀️
‘These politicians want to hold poor and low-wealth people captive in poverty and play games.’ — @RevDrBarber went off on Republicans AND Democrats for not raising the minimum wage (with @BRepairers)
@RepTedBudd You don’t care about people. Or voting rights. You’re just upset the deck is getting reshuffled in EVERYONES favor, making your reelection LESS likely.
trader joe's just fired me for sending this letter to the ceo, saying i don't share the company values. i guess advocating for a safer workplace isn't a company value?