Minimum Wage, Syria, Booker's Gay Rumor and a Recall???!!!!
Imagine going into work, and you’re making $15/hour, you get full medical benefits and you have a union that fights for you. We don’t have to imagine it we can make it. I’ve advocated for lifting the floor called the minimum wage which simply says: I’d pay you less but it’s illegal. It’s also something that we need to advocate for farm workers too because the labor and farm movement are tied together with a fine thread that must not be severed. I recently thought about the arguments regarding the minimum wage hike and what people have said and you’ll hear a lot of people saying that it’ll hurt business but they can afford to pay $15/hr. and more, they pay way more than that to CEOs who get taxpayer subsidies for part of it. Not only that but we already pay for Wal-Mart Workers Medicaid, Food Stamps and other social programs. Wal-Mart is a multibillion dollar a year operation it is foolishness to believe that they can’t afford it or is under attack for being demanded of to pay their...