Bernie's hypocrisy comes up to bite him

He may be useless, but he doesn't lie all that much, except when he's being a hypocrite.

Bernie Sanders' campaign staff complained that he wasn't paying them the $15 wage he promises Amerika if he becomes Supreme Leader, and his solution to the problem wasn't to pay them what he claims they deserve, but instead he will cut their hours so they are effectively paid the $15 per hour.

This is a guy who got kicked out of a commune for not pulling his weight in work. This is a guy who never held a real job or hired even one employee. This is a guy who never passed a bill in Congress. A guy who honeymooned in Russia. Freaking Russia! 

Sanders has been  mocked by critics who say the move to cut staff workers time is hypocritical, but they're only saying this because the move is hypocritical.

Sanders' move, critics say, is more evidence that his plan to raise the national minimum wage is hypocritical, and would only lead to less work and more unemployment.

Eco-freaking-nomics, you dummy.

The Washington Post, a leftist newspaper first reported last Thursday that Sanders' field staffers were upset that he pushed incessantly for a $15 minimum wage on the campaign trail, and made headlines for railing against major corporations who pay "starvation wages" -- but according to his words, even his own employees made "poverty wages."

In response, Sanders told The Des Moines Register he was "very proud" to lead the first major presidential campaign with unionized workers, but bothered that news of the internal strife had spilled into the media.

He allowed them to unionize without thinking that unions have rules and cater to the slowest, lowest, most incompetent employees. He doesn't realize this because of his own incompetence and warped view of socialism.

The self-described socialist candidate said junior field organizers earn roughly $36,000 per year, with employer-paid health care and sick leave -- but acknowledged that the salary can effectively dip below $15 per hour if staffers work much more than 40 hours per week, which is common on presidential campaigns.

The solution is to "limit the number of hours staffers work to 42 or 43 each week to ensure they’re making the equivalent of $15 an hour," he told the Register's Brianne Pfannenstiel.

So by that logic, if he has, say 100 employees who are now being paid $15 an hour for a 40 hour work week, all he needs to do is raise the minimum wage to $45 an hour all he needs to do is fire 67 of them to meet payroll for the same number of hours. Why not? It's even better than a simple living wage--it's a great income.

Do you see the problem with Sanders's knowledge of economics?

"It does bother me that people are going outside of the process and going to the media," Sanders said. "That is really not acceptable. It is really not what labor negotiations are about, and it's improper." Except that's what unions do, you finklefutz.

He added that the union contract "not only provides pay of at least $15 an hour, it also provides, I think, the best health care benefits that any employer can provide for our field organizers."

Reaction from conservative commentators was delicious.

Stephen Miller, a columnist and humorist tweeted:

For the first time in his life, socialist Bernie Sanders practices economics and, buddy, the results are hilarious. Why won’t millionaire Bernie Sanders, who owns 3 homes, instead of cutting hours, pay his staff a living wage? People are starving.

The Sanders saga comes days after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluded that a proposed $15 federal minimum wage could result in 3.7 million people becoming unemployed.

House Democrats' estimates were much lower because like Sanders, they too know nothing about economics.

The CBO noted the "considerable uncertainty" in calculating the impact of the minimum wage from state to state, and indicated that up to 17 million Americans would see pay increases and remain employed.

But imagine what that would do to the fast food restaurant industry, just to take one example. If restaurant owners would have to pay staff $15 minimum wage, they would have to raise their prices and probably let staff go because the profit margin in restaurants is not very high, being 6.1 to 9 percent. Imagine how much lower that would go.

Republican leaders have said a minimum wage hike would be “devastating” for middle-class families, citing CBO research finding that the minimum wage hike would also reduce business income, raise consumer prices and reduce the nation’s output. Overall, the CBO said the move would reduce real family income by about $9 billion in 2025 -- or 0.1 percent.

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