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Warren Sapping Bernie's Life Energy

Journal by takyon

Sanders campaign wracked by dissension

Elizabeth Warren just won an endorsement that’s making Bernie Sanders’s world really mad

According to polls, Warren needs a little more to fully absorb Sanders.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:39AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:39AM (#895549)

    People used to have full-time jobs before Obama. Remember that? Most people didn't need to do 2 or 3 jobs with 2 or 3 times as much commuting.

    Today, if you work enough hours, your employer must provide health coverage. LOL. No employer is dumb enough to pay $14,800 extra (average employer cost of health coverage in 2019) for an employee that would only make $15,000 per year anyway. That would be paying double.

    So the problem of part-time jobs was wholly caused by Obama. Employers prefer the simplicity of full-time workers, but they aren't about to pay double.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @11:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @11:40AM (#895578)

    All the more reason for single-payer healthcare.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @02:34PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @02:34PM (#895662)

    So the problem of part-time jobs was wholly caused by Obama.

    Not so much.
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/192356/number-of-full-time-employees-in-the-usa-since-1990/ [statista.com]

    Facts are so inconvenient, aren't they?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @08:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @08:35PM (#895803)

      The US population is not the same as it was in 1990.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:03PM (#895832)

      A graph showing the number of part-time employees would have nearly the same ups and downs.

      A better graph would show a ratio of the two.

      BTW, that is a sleazy graph, with the Y axis not starting from zero.