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3/6-7 Rev William Barber III States the Obvious; News & OT

The Progressive Wing Posted on March 6, 2021 by BennyMarch 7, 2021

I’m pasting his thread here for everyone to see.

The White House wouldn’t support the @VP overruling the advice of the parliamentarian.@SenSchumer took $15 minimum wage out of COVID relief bill before it was brought to the floor.

8 white Dem senators led by Manchin joined extremist Republicans to block Sanders' amendment.

— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) March 6, 2021

62 million poor & low-income people — who were poor & low-income before the pandemic — got abandoned.

45% of Black poor & low-wage workers are being blocked from earning a $15 minimum wage.

— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) March 6, 2021

We can see clearly now how the problems of the nation are not just Trump's actions.

Systemic racism is any policy passed by any party that has a disparate impact on Black, brown & indigenous ppl. Classism is policy that has a disparate impact on poor & low-income communities.

— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) March 6, 2021

I give thanks for the relief that will come through this bill. But we cannot pretend that the people who are suffering the most from inequality are being represented when the policies most essential to their survival are so easily negotiated away. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) March 6, 2021

Rev Barber, thank you for stating the obvious. But will ConservaDems ever connect the dots as you did?

Bloody Sunday at Selma, March 7, 1965: pic.twitter.com/IpS9QLJmxl

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) March 7, 2021

Immortal. https://t.co/gujLDYn8UX

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 7, 2021

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”—Frederick Douglass

Rest in power John Lewis, CT Vivian, Joseph Lowery. You crossed that bridge for all of us as visionaries, freedom fighters, and organizers.

We owe it to you to keep the struggle alive. pic.twitter.com/3vqu2WKxmR

— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) March 7, 2021

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Posted in Activism, Bernie Sanders, Uncategorized | Tagged Bloody Sunday, CongressFail, Fight For $15, John Lewis, Rev Barber, William Barber, working poor

3/6 Senate Continues Vote-A-Rama on COVID19; News & OT

The Progressive Wing Posted on March 6, 2021 by BennyMarch 6, 2021

Senate continued voting on bill; it passed 50-49.

Arizona Dem sends this, tells me it’s going around after Sinema’s minimum wage vote today. Ouch. pic.twitter.com/jpPIlGBsba

— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) March 6, 2021

If the $15 bill vote was still open until 9:15pm last night, why wasn't there any negotiation with the Hateful 8 about extending the number of years to get to $15? Seems as tho' most of the negotiation was about UI benefits rather than $15.

— Benny🌹 (@Benny06) March 6, 2021

Senate is still voting voted on ridiculous GOP amendments, yet, Bernie’s bill was not allowed to included as an amendment. While Bernie wanted to get the votes on record when the media was watching, I don’t quite understand why he didn’t introduce it anyway, or why there wasn’t any horse trading, such as $14 per hour and over 4 years, rather than no increase at all.

Following the U.S. Senate’s vote against an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hr as part of the COVID relief bill, Chicago McDonald’s worker and #FightFor15 and a Union Leader Adriana Alvarez released the following statement. pic.twitter.com/yJ2PDviBeE

— Fight For 15 (@fightfor15) March 5, 2021

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Posted in Bernie Sanders, Democrats, News | Tagged COVID Relief, Fight For $15

2/26 Biden Promotes War in Syria, Chooses Legislation that Favors Wall Street Donors Over Raising the Fed Min Wage in a 5 year Period; Open Thread (updated with Bernie’s comment about Syria)

The Progressive Wing Posted on February 26, 2021 by BennyFebruary 26, 2021

A $15 minimum wage would cost employers. Inequality costs all of us

n the 1960s, the federal government marshaled its resources to fight a “War on Poverty.” More recently, however, we’ve been fighting what amounts to a “War on the Poor” — a sustained campaign of denial and neglect that we can begin to end by raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

The current figure of $7.25 — unchanged since 2009 — is so absurdly low that the country effectively has no federal minimum wage at all. As of May 1, when Virginia’s minimum wage rises, 29 states will mandate higher wage floors. Assuming a 40-hour workweek, a $7.25-per-hour rate adds up to $290 before taxes. Try stretching that to cover a week’s worth of food, housing, clothing and transportation for an individual, let alone a family. It can’t be done.

Nor is it realistic to expect workers to survive, much less thrive, on $10 an hour, as Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) proposes, or $11 an hour, which Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) would prefer. The richest country on Earth can surely afford to accept the following proposition: Anyone who works a full-time job should be able to afford at least a working-class life. At less than $15 an hour, that simply is not possible.

Republicans cite the principle of federalism in arguing that states and cities should be able to set their own minimum wage levels according to local conditions. Indeed, many states do impose higher minimum wages, and some cities, such as Seattle and D.C., are on a path to $15. But five states — Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana — have no minimum wage at all, meaning employers are bound only by the $7.25 federal standard. And Wyoming and Georgia bizarrely set their minimum wage at just $5.15; again, the federal rule applies to jobs covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Federal policy recognizes that the current minimum wage is not a living wage. We help low-wage workers survive with tax credits, food assistance, subsidized housing and other sorely needed programs. But why the reluctance to require employers to compensate an honest day’s work with an honest day’s pay?

Other important principles once championed by the Republican Party are being undermined by this hesitance: Self-reliance. Self-respect. The idea of work as its own reward. The notion of idleness as damaging to self and to society.

Setting a nationwide floor of $15 an hour would require many employers to fine-tune their business plans. The cost of a Big Mac might marginally rise.

Yes, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that 1.4 million workers could lose their jobs, although many other economists argue that the impact on employment would be marginal or nonexistent. The CBO also estimates that the net impact would be to lift 900,000 Americans out of poverty.

Look beyond the fact that the federal poverty level — a family of four making a penny more than $26,500 annually is not considered poor — should really be called the federal penury level. And leave aside that a full-time, minimum-wage job would earn only $15,080 per year. Consider instead how seldom we even talk about poverty today, as though the poor have magically become invisible or ceased to exist.

Activists are trying to get us to pay attention. The Rev. William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, has been holding virtual and socially distanced events across the country — including in Manchin’s home state — to argue that a $15 minimum wage is a vital component of any effective covid-19 relief package. “The truth of the matter is it will lift millions of people out of low wages and poverty,” he says, taking a more realistic view of where the poverty line should be drawn than the federal government does.

President Biden included the $15 wage in his proposed relief legislation. But because the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that the boost cannot be approved through the arcane “reconciliation” process requiring only 51 votes, Democrats would have to pursue it independently.

But I fail to see the political downside of supporting the measure for any Democrats — or even for the few reasonable Republicans left in the Senate. Raising the minimum wage is a popular idea; a Vox poll this week showed that 62 percent of voters support the relief bill’s plan for a gradual increase to $15 by 2025. Some of the nation’s biggest employers have already made the move: Costco this week announced that it would raise its starting hourly wage to $16, outflanking major corporate rivals. Small-business owners would have four years to adjust and adapt.

And the moral calculus could not be clearer. A $15 minimum wage would cost employers. Growing inequality costs all of us even more.

Instead of having the VP overrule the Parliamentarian, or even fire her as Bush/GOP did in 2001 when the Parliamentarian Would Not Rule in Favor of Tax cuts, Biden Administration decides to cut the life line to workers in retail, home health care, and fast food. Yes, he can spend more money on useless COBRA, which doesn’t guarantee good health care to anyone. It’s just catastrophic insurance. People still will continue to go to emergency rooms. In 2020, health insurance profits continued to soar in the pandemic.

Using the parting gift that McConnell left on Biden’s doorstep, $750B funded military, Syria draws the lucky number of hearing the echos of John McCain: Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran.

Biden administration conducts strike on Iranian-linked fighters in Syria

The Biden administration conducted an airstrike in Syria on Thursday that officials believe killed a number of alleged Iranian-linked fighters, signaling its intent to use targeted military action to push back against violence tied to Tehran.

The attack on a border-crossing station in eastern Syria, the first lethal operation ordered by the Biden administration against Iran’s network of armed proxies, was “authorized in response to recent attacks against American and coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

The facilities were used by Iranian-linked Iraqi militias, including Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, he said.

There’s always enough time and money to bomb countries and never enough time to run people life saving checks and medicine.

— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) February 26, 2021

I am very concerned by last night’s strike by U.S. forces in Syria. The president has the responsibility to keep Americans safe, but for too long administrations of both parties have interpreted their authorities in an extremely expansive way to continue war. This must end. pic.twitter.com/AnU2On6QC1

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 26, 2021

Biden administration looking at their options like… pic.twitter.com/erbgVv0LPt

— RootsAction (@Roots_Action) February 26, 2021

Bernie Sanders has no reason to support the OMB nominee. He should vote his conscience.

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Posted in Bernie Sanders, Democrats | Tagged Biden Breaks More Promises, Fight For $15, Iran, Robert Reich, Syria, War

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