The vid is ON FACEBOOK
They are literally singing “Congress, which side are you on?” Waffle House wage is $3.25 plus tips for waiting tables and $9.50 when you are on grill, no tips. The vid has a white man from Richmond, Virginia discussing income inequality and why all races need to come together in the fight for $15.00 and he does it as intelligently as an economist, yet he is working at Waffle House.
It's not all about racism, it’s about the economy, always will be. Watch the Vid, it is on the TYT FB page only. If you are on Facebook you need to follow them.
I tried to embed it but Dailykos wouldn’t do it for some reason.
The push to add the $15.00 min wage to the Dem 2016 platform came from Bernie, Hillary and the rest were content to leave it unstated as to how high it should be raised. Mind you, all that was going on while thousands were in the streets protesting about why it needs to be $15.00 everywhere.
From Politifact
Largely lost in the tumult is just how rapidly the debate over the minimum wage has shifted during the past few years, at least on the Democratic side. (Republicans, by and large, are skeptical about raising the minimum wage, though Donald Trumpsaid on May 8 that he "would like to see an increase of some magnitude, but I'd rather leave it to the states.")
In fact, among Democrats, the minimum-wage rhetoric has moved so fast that it hasn’t kept up with academic research on the subject. This has left Sanders touting support for a minimum wage level that hasn't received much academic vetting -- and that leaves unanswered the question of what the downside of a large wage increase could be.
A consistent shift
In his first presidential campaign in 2008, Barack Obama ran on a promise of raising the minimum wage to $9.50 by 2011. Once in office, he largely avoided the issue until his 2013 State of the Union address, in which he advocated a $9.00 minimum wage. Then, in November 2013, Obama adopted the cause of a $10.10 minimum wage.
Now, both Democratic candidates are on record saying $10.10 is far too low.
So, in the span of just over two years, Obama’s proposed bump of $1.75 over the current level has been left entirely in the dust.
Sanders calls instead for an increase of $7.75. That’s more than double the present level -- which has been steady at $7.25 since 2009 -- and it’s 40 percent higher than the all-time highest inflation-adjusted minimum wage level, $10.69 in February 1968. (Sanders’ bump, it should be noted, wouldn’t come all at once; a bill he introduced in 2015 would phase in the $15 wage incrementally by 2020.)
Once Sanders, and union backed folks, pushed $15 it got adopted overwhelmingly in the Dem platform.
Plenty of cities around the country have a $15.00 min wage,
Nearly 20 percent of the American workforce — in many cities as well as in California and New York — is now covered by $15-an-hour minimum-wage laws, up from none as recently as 2013. There are pending bills and ballot measures for $15 in Connecticut, Baltimore, Minneapolis and Montgomery County, Maryland. In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie is expected to veto a bill for $15 recently passed by lawmakers, but the measure could become law anyway in a referendum that state Democrats plan for next year.
The Democratic party platform committee would do Mrs. Clinton a favor by endorsing a $15 minimum wage. Her stance puts her on the wrong side of the issue. Her fellow Democrats can set her straight.
We have white people and POC who are literally starving while working, we all know this. Yet the push to increase the wage to what is truly needed, $15.00, came from people outside the Democratic Party, the Progressive Caucus, and from the ground up. People protesting and states and cities doing in on their own choice. The DNC and “establishment Dems” didn’t want to push for it, and we know government in the Red States where so many suffer wouldn’t go for it, which is why it needs to be federally mandated. The people that introduced the bill into Congress in July 2015 were Sanders, Ellison and Grivalja, the leaders of the Progressive Caucus. It went nowhere, of course, but here’s the thing. If the rest of the Dems had jumped on that, started vocally pushing it in 2015 and made it their platform before Sanders had to basically bully the DNC to add it, can you imagine what impact that may have had on the Rust Belt Voters who usually vote Dem but switched to Trump this time?
If Dems had spent a year stating that it was the Republicans who were refusing to help low income people, that it was the Republicans who were trying to tear down the social safety nets and, as a concerted party, made it a point in every interview, on every single one of their Twitter and Facebook feeds, on every radio show that they went on, to say over and over that Republicans are the reason you are working three jobs and are still scraping to barely survive, that right there could have changed the tide back to our side.
The Democrats needed to act like a minority party, because we have been. They need to be vocal, demanding that the facts be heard, using social media in all it’s forms to get the message out there and for pete’s sake show some real dedication to the 75% of the people in this country who have spent the last 30 years being screwed one way or another.
Hopefully they can come together now that we have lost everything and with one voice, remind people why they should vote for them.