04-12-2021, 02:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-12-2021, 02:21 AM by Eric the Green.)
(04-05-2021, 09:15 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-03-2021, 11:29 PM)Einzige Wrote:(04-03-2021, 09:43 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-02-2021, 12:21 PM)Anthony Wrote: Not surprisingly, I agree with Joe Manchin. Let's go to $11 an hour for now - so long as the minimum wage is thereafter indexed to an "unchained" CPI once the minimum wage does reach that figure.
And the Democrats have only themselves to blame - because of the Culture Wars, which they started - for being forced to compromise on this, and so many other issues.
$15 is low today and far outdated by the time it finally arrives. $11 is an insult. If the minimum had kept pace since 1973, it would be $20+. I do agree that the laser focus on culture issues has been much of the problem. It seems to be that advancement on trend line A must be offset by stagnation on trend line B. It’s not right, but it seems to be the case. And no, I don’t have a solution for that.
Anthony has a gimmick in which he postures as an Old-School Nor'eastern Ethnic Democrat, a blue-collar Democrat for Nixon, Reagan, Dole, etc., and he'll tell you wot. It's super sleepy.
These guys -
- were not labor heroes. They were class traitors.
Nothing unusual here -- at least for NYC, where Anthony was born and raised. Conservative labor activist may seem to be an oxymoron, but the 5 boroughs of New York run the gamut from the neoliberal and wealthy UES of Manhattan to the neoconservative and very blue collar Staten Island. Antony is decidedly Staten Island.
Carroll O'Connor played the type so very well.
But I know not what "UES" stands for.
"Neo-liberalism" is a very extreme right-wing view, and I am loth to apply it to liberals or even moderate Democrats, even if partially fitting. No doubt it has been so powerful in the last 40 years that many Democrats bow to it and compromise with it, as Bill Clinton did.