Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Senator Bernie Sanders" channel.

  1. +Oscar Svensson Also pointing towards a few successful things the government supposedly does is not an excuse to massively expand it. That is like the wife staying with your alcoholic abusive husband because he brought her home flowers one night.
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  2. +Juanita Thomas The democrats had congress for Obama's first 2 years. What were they doing at that time? Oh, that is right, pushing Obamacare which they could not agree on. Also Clinton did well with a republican congress.
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  3. Money in politics would not be an issue if the federal government had limitations in it's power and we had more state rights like in the past.  If the federal government does not have power then it can't be bought, it is that simple. So Bernie, who is running as a democrat, wins and expands the power of the federal government, what is going to stop other politicians in the future from misusing that power? This is why the founding fathers wanted a limited federal government and state rights.  It was to place control on the government.
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  4. Evan Black Walmart can't pay more because they simply can't afford to. They run a business model that employs a lot of low skilled workers and offers consumers goods at convenient locations and time. It isn't Walmart's fault that their employers refuse to better themselves. Walmart can always be like Target or Walgreens, limit their selection, limit their locations and hours and pay around a dollar more an hour.
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  5. Evan Black Walmart can't afford to pay more. They can always decide to close down some of their stores or fire some of those workers. It isn't Walmart's fault that their workers refuse to better themselves. Walmart already pays above the min. wage The simple fact is that Walmart can't afford to pay more. Plus, why the attack on Walmart? Why no attack on Costco for not hiring more? What about Target, Walgreens and other businesses? It is easy to pick on one company and try to remain simple but this a complex economy. So after you attack Walmart and Target becomes the next big dog, do you attack them?
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  6. Sage Mantis We need to keep money, but we should also do our best to make people understand what money is. The number one problem our economy faces is that people don't know what money is. As someone mentioned money solves two problems. One, the double incidence of wants problems. I have a skill where I am good at math and science. I work for a lab. My lab pays me in money. They don't have food or a place for me to live, so they pay me with money. I use that money to go to a place to buy food, so I don't have to work for that company for food, I just pay them money. The other problem is the retention of value problem. If I run a store selling food I won't be able to save enough eggs or milk to buy off land to build something on. That is because milk and eggs have expiration dates. Now the other thing we need to teach people is that money has zero value until it is used in trade to produce what both parties involved consider to be wealth. What I mean is that if I pay you $20 and you mow my lawn, I felt it was worth $20 for you to mow it and you felt you earned enough. I got my lawn mowed and you can now take that $20 and by something, say two movie tickets and 2 drinks. Now that movie company has $20 and the cycle continues. The problem that comes is when people feel money is finite and has a set value. That is when you get terrible economic decisions such as high taxes and giving money away to people who society deems to not be producing any value. As in government takes $2 from you $20 and give it so some guy in the mail for doing nothing. Now instead you earned $18 and that guy earned $2 for doing nothing. So in this basic example that $20 is now only worth $18. So now you may only buy 2 movie tickets and one drink, or 2 drinks of smaller sizes. And that $2 is essentially worthless in that it produced nothing. That is what money is. It is needed but people need to understand what money is.
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  7. CriminalGameplay I agree with Dazlindale1 on this issue. What you also have to look at is that Denmark has only 5 million people, a population that is less than 30 of your states. Not really a sound comparison when comparing it to the US. Also, Denmark does not have a mandated min. wage.
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  8. At 5:30 he predictably brings up the Koch Brothers.  I should make a Bernie Sanders pull string doll seeing how predictable he is. Bernie Sanders is economically illiterate and clueless on the structure of this country.
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  9. Bread Canful I don't support bribery, it is just that Bernie's ideas won't work.
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  10. Why should he?  As long as he keeps winning elections that is all it matters.  He is a career politician. 
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  11. +Oscar Chabrand "In a comprehensive, 182-page summary of the research on this subject from the last two decades, economists David Neumark (UC-Irvine) and William Wascher (Federal Reserve Board) determined that 85 percent of the best research points to a loss of jobs following a minimum wage increase." From Forbes.com "Have you heard about his plan to make public school free? " Where is the money going to come from? He never says that. And how is he going to solve the problem of lack of professors and classrooms. "It's all possible, lots of countries with a LOT less wealth than America do it already." There is a reason why the US has the most international students in the world.
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  12. +Oscar Chabrand Climate change is a different issue than the min. wage. In theory any price setting does not work, even Paul Krugman says that in his textbook. People will naturally change their ways if something becomes too expensive. If the government were to set a price floor on cars at $10,000 several people won't buy cars, and certain cars will not get sold (such as used cars). The same is with labor. With climate change there is a lot of doubt in what is happening as if it is really bad. Climate change is happening but how strong of a role man is playing is in question. With the min. wage there is a strongly supported theory in price setting such as price floors not working and it is seen in the data. I feel there is not one single good reason to even have a min. wage. And from what I read it is basically 50/50 on if it should be raised or not. What I do know, buy studying statistics is that the min. wage is a very small portion of the massive economy. Christina Romer even admits that. So thus the current min. wage, and any raises in the past have put a minute effect on the economy. That is why in some areas you can see a higher min. wage and low unemployment, there are other, stronger factors involved. To me, though, all effects are bad and gets lost in the statistical noise. But the effects are not devastating. The issue with Bernie is that he wants a one size fits all $15/hr min. wage. My hometown simply can't afford that. Not businesses, my entire town. Small, midwestern towns in agriculture communities simply don't generate much revenue, but cost of living is lower as well. A $15/hr min. wage simply will destroy those towns. That is over a 100% increase. That is my issue with Bernie Sanders, and liberals in general. They are all rhetoric and no specifics. $15/hr is high. When the min. wage was raised to $7.25/hr the business I worked for in my hometown cut workers, raised prices and cut hours. It hurt that business and community. The same goes for Bernie wanting to create jobs by "rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure". One, what is crumbling? Next, if you build something that people don't demand then that is a waste. Mainly, though, where is the money going to come from? If these businesses are paying workers more than how do they have more money to tax? Also, what is "their fair share"? We need a hard value. At least Bernie gave a value of $15/hr on the min. wage. I can't take what he says seriously unless he first gives me a hard value, and then says why. The pure fact is that the money is not there. It also goes against what money is. To really understand how flawed Bernie's plans are you have to learn what money is. It isn't some finite resource. Money has to be invested to generate value. Spending it to build things people don't want is devalue money.
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  13. Rossboe1 Australia has a higher cost of living as well.  You are talking about a business having small profit margins, then why don't you criticize individuals for not making enough?  The simple fact is that businesses can't afford to pay more. The idea that businesses will pay little is false.  2/3 of min. wage workers receive a raise within a year, less than 5% of workers make at or below the min. wage.  The average hourly earnings in the US is over $24/hr.  Competition doesn't allow businesses to pay less. 
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  14. And Sanders owns three homes. What a dictator.
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  15. Victor Espino I don't care if he invests.  I have a problem with him criticizing the Walton family while he has three homes himself. So he can be well off but not the Walton family?  Those CEOs he complains about can't do well but he can?   
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  16. Victor Espino It is though.  The Walton are worth as much as they are because they own half of Walmart, a company that actually produces jobs and provides goods and services to people. What does Bernie provide with his three homes?  How many jobs has Bernie created with his three homes?  All he wants to do is spend other people's money.  "our taxes pay for their employees being on welfare, because they don't want to pay their employees a living wage. " Walmart does not pay more for one simple reason, they can't afford it. 
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  17. ross schopp You are right, my bad. According to the BLS around 3 million people are earning at or below the min. wage.  So not really the tens of millions of workers as he claims.
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  18. ross schopp Considering the car I drive is better than a car a rich person drove in the 80s, or my cell phone is better than what a rich person owned in the 90s I would say that everyone's wealth went up.
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  19. Well Mr. Sanders here is the problem. People are pulling out loans to get liberal art degrees or business degrees. If someone goes to college and becomes a doctor or a scientist they will have no problem being competitive and paying off loans. All those people that complain about loans need to stop crying and pay it off. My story, I am almost $50,000 in debt. I plan on having it paid off in 10 years. Looking at my finances most likely be less. Plan a budget, sorry you have to work.
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  20. He earns $80,000 a year. His wealth comes from his shares. Bernie is lying to you.
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  21. Wealth does not equal income.
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  22. Sharon S You can't compare the min. wage to inflation. If you do then brick cell phones would cost $4000, never mind smart phones. A computer in from the 60s would cost over $40 million.
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  23. Sharon S Nope, just saying the truth showing you don't know anything about economics.
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  24. XellosTheDragon No, what Sharon was saying is that everything should go up in price, including labor because "inflation". Some goods have dropped in price and the same is with labor. Some goods have remained the same in price and some have gone up like in labor. Before the tractor we had people working on the farms. The tractor came and those working on the farms ended up getting a value of $0. With Netflix and Red Box we have seen Blockbuster employees go to a value of $0. In my hometown there was a battery plant and in the 90s it employed over 800 people. So many appliances used batteries as in walkmens, RC cars, cordless phones and so on. Now with Ipads, cell phones, laptops and so one having batteries on boards that recharge, the demand for batteries dropped. That company started to close down factories and when it closed down the one in my town it only employed around 200 people. That means the value of those workers is no $0. To think that the value of the person running the cash register or flipping burgers at a restaurant has gone up is ludicrous. It hasn't. If you look at technology and the trend in the economy inflation should not be happening and if it is it shouldn't be happening much at all. The reason why food is expensive at the grocery store is because of a policy such as the min. wage. The min. wage went up, a low wage employer such as the grocery store need to pay the employees more now by law, thus they increased prices. We are producing more food than ever due to technology, we even throw away food. The price of food should be dropping. But the min. wage, which is outpacing productivity, is causing them to go up. And to think that a min. wage was needed so you can't starve is not true. You are mandating how much is being paid per hour, but not per week. Your grasp of economics has dropped to a new low.
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  25. Vance Wade I am using my head. Sharon's one argument for raising the min. wage is simply "inflation". But what I clearly shown was not everything inflates. Goods are no different than labor. There are jobs that simply don't exist anymore due to technology making those workers worth $0. Their value has dropped, not risen. Really technology makes low skilled workers easier. A cashier has a giant computer in front of them and people pay with cards now. They don't have to obtain an easy, but lost skilled such as counting back change. I was buy something at a gas station the other day. The lady rung me up wrong. I did the price in my head and said she rung me up wrong. She didn't believe me. I told her the numbers and she still couldn't figure it out. She rung me up again and got the right price. This lady couldn't add two numbers in her head, and people feel she is worth $22/hr?
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  26. Vance Wade I am using my head. Sharon's one argument for raising the min. wage is simply "inflation". But what I clearly shown was not everything inflates. Goods are no different than labor. There are jobs that simply don't exist anymore due to technology making those workers worth $0. Their value has dropped, not risen. Really technology makes low skilled workers easier. A cashier has a giant computer in front of them and people pay with cards now. They don't have to obtain an easy, but lost skilled such as counting back change. I was buy something at a gas station the other day. The lady rung me up wrong. I did the price in my head and said she rung me up wrong. She didn't believe me. I told her the numbers and she still couldn't figure it out. She rung me up again and got the right price. This lady couldn't add two numbers in her head, and people feel she is worth $22/hr?
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  27. Vance Wade If groceries have gone up due to inflation then why not everything else? We are producing too much food, so what gives? The term "living wage" is subjective and means nothing when broken down. And you are talking about skills, what type of skills? Some with a history degree and a lot of writing skills might not be worth much if someone doesn't demand them. You blame greedy executive. If the CEO of Walmart and McDonalds were to earn $0, the workers there will earn an extra......wait for it.......$0.001 per hour.
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  28. Vance Wade But everything hasn't gone up, I shown you that. I drive a better can than some rich person did in the 70s. What define a "living wage"? What you said means nothing so far without standards.
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  29. DynamicUnreal Inflation is caused by the min. wage. There are other factors as well but the min. wage plays a role. Technology is getting cheaper in two ways, by the quality and by the price. I can hook up my Ipad to a set of speakers and have a stereo sound system all cheaper for what a record player cost in the 60s. I can take that Ipad for a jog with me as well. Cars are cheaper and last longer along with get better mileage. Their price has dropped, not inflate. The same can be said about labor. Look at blockbuster employees. Due to Netflx and Red Box the value of those employees have gone to $0. Due to appliances having rechargeable battery on board the value of the workers at batter factories went to $0. The value of some workers went up, others have gone down, others have stayed the same. I disagree that it is greed that has led to inflation. It is things that devalue the dollar. Pumping of money by the fed. is one way, another is raising the min. wage. Do you really think that guy who cooks hamburgers at a restaurant is worth more now than 30 years ago?
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  30. Mike Stavenes I actually never worked for blockbuster, I just used that as an example. I can also use the example of how the tractor replaced the farm workers. It is how the economy evolves. But to think that the min. wage should be $15/hr, and when it gets raised we see food prices go up and teenage unemployment go up and scratch our heads why is acting pretty dumb in itself.
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  31. Mike Stavenes "The economy only works when money flows" The economy works when there is wealth creation. If all it took was money flowing then why not just give people checks for $20,000? "Putting more money in the hands of the average citizen encourages spending all the way across the entire economic spectrum" You can't consume what you don't produce. If you just put money in the hands of anybody, including the "average citizen" but there are not any goods and services to consume, then all you have done is increase prices. "If businesses know that there are customers in the area" They raise prices. We have seen this with college loans and tuition, or healthcare now with the ACA and rates going up at higher than normal rate. When they know customers are just given money where consumption increases they have to increase prices. What drives the economy is wealth creation, not money flow.
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  32. Mike Stavenes You create wealth by having people work at the best of their ability and having them be paid the market rate. Just giving people money does nothing if they are not producing wealth. You can have a lot of money but with little wealth that money is worthless. If you run a business that say sells milk, and people have more money but you don't have more milk, you have to raise the price of milk. If people have $100 more in their pockets but there isn't more goods and services in existence then prices will go up. You have this feeling that prices won't go up, they will. You idea about local businesses is flawed. No business is isolated. You want to talk math? Ok, you have 5 workers at a business. They produce 100 widgets and are paid $100 a day. Now they are, through government law, required to earn $200 day but still produce only 100 widgets between them. What has to happen is that prices have to go up. That is how it works. Businesses simply can't afford higher wages.
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  33. Vance Wade I have read the literature, and yes, what I am saying is supported by real life.
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  34. Mike Stavenes I am in my upper 20s. I have worked a min. wage job for years and it wasn't hard work. You have little responsibilities, it requires little skills, the hours are flexible, and overall the work is easy. So yes, those on min. wage don't work hard. "Maybe if they did that same job with more efficiency, that the boss would reward them by paying them more, out of the kindness of his heart?" The boss does out of an investment to keep their more productive employees from going to another job. "How hard people work has nothing to do with how much money they make" Yes it does, along with skill set and demand. "If they want to keep more of the money they make from the labors of their employees...they pay them less, and demand more...which is exactly what you see happening in the US economy." Except less than 5% of workers earn at or below the min. wage, around 50% of workers earning a min. wage get a raise within a year, and the average hourly earnings in the US is around $24/hr. "And you really have to stop using the bullshit about a lack of goods" Goods are limited. Where are the goods going to come from? Your idea of money is flawed. If the money isn't there then the price of goods will drop. A company just holding onto goods gives them nothing. In smaller more local areas goods are cheaper for a reason. The US moved factories overseas for 2 reasons, expensive regulations and overall the evolution of the economy. Saying the economy is consumer based if flawed, you can't consume what you don't produce. If people had the more money but the amount of goods are the same guess what happens? Prices go up. Businesses simply can't afford higher wages. If Walmart and McDonalds CEOs were to take in $0 and pass it on to the workers their employees would earn an extra $0.001 per hour. The money simply isn't there.
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  35. Vance Wade In other countries cost of living is higher. Plus, we shouldn't be concerned with what goes on in other countries, there are many other variables beyond the min. wage that are involved. If all it took was a small increase in prices to give more wages without chasing away customers then why don't businesses like Walmart just increase prices already and earn that much more in profit? The answer is because it isn't that easy. "Walmart alone cost the taxpayers 6.2 billion in public assistance in 2013." No, their employees who Walmart choose to hire have been.
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  36. ***** There is nothing wrong with citing something from those sources in that it gets others to read them. I don't trust them 100% either, but I do read them and see who is, for lack of a better word, more correct. News sources these days are entertainment. Bill O'Reilly admitted that he is an opinion guy. That is what give views. But just because the source is questionable doesn't mean it is wrong.
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  37. They probably will and they are starting too (see the jobs moving over seas).  Walmart can always close down some of their stores and hire less people.
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  38. Sanders never asked one.  He had an agenda.
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  39. Your Dada Walmart can always close down some of their stores.  Instead of 8 stores in an urban area they can reduce down to 5.  Walmart just open 2 new Walmarts in the last 5 years where I live, they could always close them down again.  
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  40. If the only job you can get is at walmart than you need to find a way to change that.
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  41. vuk911 The US has the best university system in the world.
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  42. If the federal government didn't have power then it can't be bought, it is that simple folks.  The founding fathers wanted limited federal government and state rights for a reason.
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  43. I love the comments on here, we are living in an entitled society.  These same people complaining about working over 40 hours (an arbitrary number) are the same people who complain when they see someone who is better off, or something doesn't go their way.  That person who has things go their way actually worked.  So while you are complaining and feeling entitled others are working, remember that.
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  44. jmattbassplaya90 Those individuals are pay the amount they are paid because they are worth that much.  You know who determines worth?   Us, society does.  That guy earning 13 million dollars a year brings in a lot more then that to the company.  He is helping in the investment of money, the increase in stock prices and finding a way to bring in more jobs. You lower his salary less money is going to be invested and stocks will go down. The fact is that low wage workers, workers making less than $9.50/hr, are not poor. 95% of them are above the poverty line and their average household income is over $47,000/yr.  They are second earners of a household.  They work a job that isn't worth that much but they are also not using that job to survive. I admit, we need to do something better and that would mean attract more investors to our country to increase the wealth we have. 
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  45. ***** Why do you have middle class small business owners?  Or why don't you attack businesses like Costco or Google even for not hiring more people?  The truth hurts, you know nothing about running a business and the economy. 
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  46. ***** Walmart in the past 5 years just open two new Walmarts in my city. That is that many more jobs. That is what profits do, it promotes growth.  Your small business probably had a model that allowed to pay a higher wage.  What you said can be true about any business.  Google pays their staff very well.  That is because they have a model that allows them to pay a higher wage.  How come no one complains when a company doesn't pay comparable to Google?  Or how come no one complains when a business like Costco doesn't build more stores and hires more? Fact is that some jobs are low paying.  Statistically those workers are not poor in that most of the poor are making over $10/hr to being with.  That means the vast majority of the working force making less than $10/hr are not poor.  That is because low wage workers are young and part time.  They are working entry level jobs or are part time supplemental forms of income.   You are not paid based on your personal situation but based on what you are worth.  Define a living wage?  The term doesn't exist because it is way too subjective.  If the law stated living wage then I can get a part time job because I would work for $4/hr.  I can work at the gas station down the street for that wage because I am already making a living off of my current job.  So that gas station wouldn't be required to pay me a living wage since I am already earning enough in life.  I would just work for a low wage to make some supplemental income during my weekends.  So maybe they should pass a living wage law in that I will benefit from it.
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  47. jmattbassplaya90 Your first mistake is talking about wealth and it being a problem where Walmart owns more wealth than the bottom 40%.  So what.  Look at what wealth is.  I make $20,000/yr and live just fine with my own place and car and healthcare.  I have negative wealth because I have a loan that I am paying off.  A lot of people have negative wealth due to loans.  For the average family 61% of their net worth, or wealth, is tied into their home. So beyond owning a home the average family has very little wealth. You can't argue for an increase in pay based on wealth because than you will have to start giving away walmarts to people.  When you do that, an considering 50% of small businesses fail in the first 5 years, than there will be some wealth disparity.  So the wealth figure you mentioned means nothing. You talk about CEO pay.  You have to realize that money is worthless and something is only worth as much as the market determines.  If you were to place a cap on CEO pay than a business will just give them something else.  They will give them a house, or some land or something because now they will be restricted on the money they can pay someone.   You also have to look at McDonald's are franchised.  They are ran by small business owners, not CEOs.  Thus they have very little say in how much something cost.   Plus, once again, if you remove profits you remove growth.  Competition promotes growth and business need to invest to do well against competitors.  When that happens businesses grow, jobs are created, and goods and services become better and more affordable.
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  48. TriniCrew GM is manufacturing where walmart is retail.  They are completely different businesses.  Both business cater to customers with different needs and both businesses have employees that produce different amount of capital.  Walmart employees simply don't produce that much capital.  GM employees did.  In manufacturing businesses they have higher standards as in having a high school degree, stricter safety regulations, and stricter time schedule.  I have worked both.  At the warehouse I worked in I was audited at least twice a week for safety even though I never violated anything.  I couldn't clock in early or late or I get pointed and fired.  I needed a high school degree and couldn't be on the floor when it wasn't my shift.  At walmart if you clock in late they didn't mind.  You didn't have to make rate, you didn't need a high school degree.  Safety wasn't that big of a deal there.   In short the businesses were completely different and can't be compared.   
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  49. Actually there have been 29 cases of mass shootings so far this year. But don't let facts get in the way of good propaganda.
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  50. +Winston Wood What you said is true. Bernie wants a $15/hr min. wage. The min. wage is a large reason why youth unemployment is so high. Bernie wants to spend money to put the youth to work. So he wants to kill private jobs for the young, and create government jobs for them.
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