Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Minimum Wage Workers Strike" video.

Here is the simple truth, Sanders is a career politician who has never worked a day in his life or studied economics. Listening to him on economic issues is like listening to a 4 year old on how to drive a car.
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Kathie Bishop So Sanders is more qualified than someone who actually worked in the private sector? Sanders is all talk, but anyone who actually looks into the economy and the market knows how off he is.
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Kathie Bishop Noam Chomsky studies linguistic, he is not knowledgeable at all when it comes to economics. Most economists disagree with Sanders, or that he is deceptive. Take the min. wage for example, there isn't on good reason to even have it. Most economist agree that we shouldn't raise it, but Sanders want to push a "living wage" whatever that means.
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Kathie Bishop Honorary PhDs just means either you spoke at a university or made a donation. You really didn't do anything to earn it. I have seen Chomsky's lectures, great speaker, kind of ignorant. Robert Reich? The same Robert Reich who says that raising the min. wage is common sense? You know, I am pursuing my PhD. If I were to stand in front of my advisory team and say "common sense" I wouldn't get it. I get my info from actual research. I don't watch the "corporation media". As a man who is working on his PhD I have the ability to do research and look up information and make my own decision, not listen to people spewing out deceptive information to gain viewers and money (in the case of Sanders win elections). There isn't on good reason to even have a min. wage when you break it down.
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Kathie Bishop My opinion on Chomsky shows that I can look past a guy that speaks well. He is not very economically sound. I remember one talk he gave where he mentioned about one group of people holding on to all the resources where he was talking about money. The thing is that money isn't a resource. It is just a universal means of trade with an arbitrary value. So what he said is wrong. But that isn't surprising coming from a guy that feels people could just volunteer their services and our society will function just fine. There is a youtube video where he talks about taxes and how we should celebrate April 15th if we are really a free, democratic society. He says that taxes are there to fund policies for us. The problem is that in the US we don't have a democracy, we have a republic with 300 million people and 50 states. The American people have little voice at the federal level in the US thus us paying taxes are not necessarily paying for policies we support. He doesn't understand how this country was designed and how it is supposed to be ran. One can go on. He is a great writer and speaker, but his political and economic ideas are disconnected from what goes one, especially in the US. Look past the great writing (because he is a great writer) and you see a guy who spent his whole life behind books but never in the general public to understand what goes on, or understand people in general. This is a youtube comment by the way. I don't put too much effort in writing and editing this. Where as with my PhD dissertation I will spend 3+ years working on it.
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Kathie Bishop Nice response. Remember, you are the one listening to people who have no experience. Like Sanders, career politician. Same with Robert Reich. Noam Chomsky, he has done nothing but read and write. Talk is cheap, remember that.
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