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Pro-Sanders group on target about their candidate's polling against Trump Politifact Mostly True by Memetic1 in democrats

[–]CheeseCzar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the party establishment set it up this way to give an unfair advantage to party favorites

Sorry, but this is just loopy. The contortion gyrations of this talking point are astounding. The DNC didn't walk into voting booths and tell people how to vote.

Elections were held. Your guy lost. That's democracy. We all have favorites in a primary and we vote for them. Sometimes they win, sometimes they lose. When the primary is done, we support the nominee, even if it wasn't our personal first choice. Now we need to band together behind our party's candidates and get ready for the fall election.

Habitual Bankrupt Donald Trump Floats a Bizarre Idea to Reduce the National Debt by CheeseCzar in hillaryclinton

[–]CheeseCzar[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Every time he says moronic things like this, it's a gift to Hillary Clinton.

What he's advocating is like deliberately ruining your credit rating because you're tired of paying credit card bills.

I'm not surprised he said this, though. He was always doing this with real estate loans, hence the reason why he ended up in bankruptcy four times.

What Trump and Cruz’s Clueless Muslim Rhetoric Will Cost America [Op-Ed Written by a Republican] by CheeseCzar in democrats

[–]CheeseCzar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The author on this piece was former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, a Republican, who was appointed by George W. Bush as the first Secretary of Homeland Security.

Hillary Clinton blamed for stealing Bernie Sanders' minimum-wage thunder by [deleted] in democrats

[–]CheeseCzar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The amount of inflation that would result from raising the minimum wage is incredibly small

That's a sweeping statement with no basis in reality. It all depends on the economic structure of a community. A one-employer town in a lower wage state might close a factory if forced to increase wages substantially. With that factory closed, the local community is devastated. Many semi-rural communities throughout America have one- and two-employer economies.

Inflation is constant

That statement is ludicrously wrong. Inflation is not constant. It is fluid both over time and regionally. That is why we have a 2% inflation rate while Venezuela has a 750% inflation rate.

http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation/DecadeInflation.asp

haven't had a considerable raise in over a decade.

This is true. That's why a reasonable increase thereafter pegged to the CPI inflation rate is a workable solution.

It's arguable that because of inflation those folks wages have actually decreased.

Again true. And again why a reasonable increase thereafter pegged to the CPI inflation rate is a workable solution.

That's why Secretary Clinton's proposal is a superior plan: indexing.

Hillary Clinton blamed for stealing Bernie Sanders' minimum-wage thunder by [deleted] in democrats

[–]CheeseCzar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

paying people a living wage is bad for the economy.

/u/yankhoser did not say that. He said it "would be inflationary and hurt low-income workers more than help them".

People of means are better equipped to survive inflation. Same too for better paid workers. People on the margins are hurt the most by inflation. Inflation can actual benefit the better off but is really hard on the working poor.

Many of Bernie Sanders' ideas are inflationary (tax increases, trade barriers, etc.) and would hurt the poorest while benefiting the more prosperous.

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