This should be plainly idiotic to anybody and everybody. This man lives in some weird fantasy world.
Fresh off a campaign to get Amazon to raise its minimum wage, Senator Bernie Sanders is now shining his progressive spotlight on Walmart.
Sanders on Thursday introduced a bill, titled the Stop Walmart Act, that would prevent large companies from buying back stock unless they pay all employees at least $15 an hour, allow workers to earn up to seven days of paid sick leave and limit CEO compensation to no more than 150 times the median pay of all staffers.
If my company doesn't get a free bonus check equal to roughly 48% of its annual profit, paid for by American taxpayers, then why should Walmart get one? Bernie's platform for increased benefits for America's middle class is hardly new. Targeting companies like Walmart who exist only because their power allows them to manipulate the system so taxpayers subsidize them, is also nothing new. The only idiocy I see is keeping the status quo and pretending everything is fine as is.
Meanwhile, the epitome of idiocy exists in the White House where the great Orange one says people need photo ID to buy cereal and he looks up at the sun without eyewear prior to an eclipse.
The idea is interesting. Corporate stock buy backs are an interesting topic - in a geeky way, anyway. They are tied to why October was a rough month for the markets, for example. It's primary beneficiaries are shareholders due to it inflating earnings per share as there are fewer outstanding shares, and there are opportunity costs involved when that money is spent on what could be compared to video game pay-to-win in-game perks that have questionable long term value outside juicing the earnings value per share.
Good for Bernie, raising the issue at least.
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Water Dog wrote:This should be plainly idiotic to anybody and everybody. This man lives in some weird fantasy world.
Fresh off a campaign to get Amazon to raise its minimum wage, Senator Bernie Sanders is now shining his progressive spotlight on Walmart.
Sanders on Thursday introduced a bill, titled the Stop Walmart Act, that would prevent large companies from buying back stock unless they pay all employees at least $15 an hour, allow workers to earn up to seven days of paid sick leave and limit CEO compensation to no more than 150 times the median pay of all staffers.
It is hard for me to imagine a bigger idiot in government than Donald J. Trump. If Bernie Sanders is an idiot, there isn't a word in the English language that can adequately describe the stupidity of DJT, compared to Bernie!
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
Bernie is the idiot. I mean, gosh, who am I to say otherwise when we have a President droppin' intellectual A-bombs like this one:
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch honored with nation’s highest civilian medal as Trump says, ‘He liked me right from the beginning and therefore I like him’
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
I don't see how it is idiotic to try and raise wages. Perhaps he should just shut up and be thankful our corporate masters pay the workers at all?
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen
