The hypocrisy of leftist douchebags is delicious.
The socialist party in Seattle that wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $20 per hour but advertised a job last week for an experienced web developer paying just $13 per hour is now defending itself.
The Huffington Post, which was sued by a bunch of unpaid bloggers after founder Arianna Huffington sold the website for $315 million, has the story.
The argument from the Freedom Socialist Party is that it cannot afford the minimum wage it seeks to impose on every commercial entity in America. (RELATED: Seattle Socialist Party Wants $20 Per Hour Minimum Wage, Offers $13 Per Hour For Website Manager)
Doug Barnes, the Freedom Socialist Party’s national secretary, claimed that the collectivist political organization shouldn’t be subject to its own wage demands because it is a nonprofit that receives revenue from leftist contributors.
“We’re practicing what we’re preaching in terms of continuing to fight for the minimum wage,” Barnes told the HuffPo. “But we can’t pay a lot more than $13.”
Barnes also suggested that the Freedom Socialist Party would make more money off the backs of the low-wage workers he claims make many contributions if the federal government or state governments forced businesses to pay employees a minimum of $20 per hour.
“Our donor base would all be affected, and the low-wage workers who support us with $5 to $6 a month would be able to give more,” he told HuffPo. “That would affect our ability to pay higher wages as well.”
He noted that he personally supports a $22 per hour minimum wage.
According to his Facebook page, Barnes is a graduate of the Evergreen State College. (RELATED: The 13 Most Rabidly Leftist, Politically Correct Colleges For Dirty, Tree-Hugging Hippies)
His Facebook “likes” include Occupy Seattle, Syrian Revolution Support Bases, El Centro de la Raza, Mumia Abu Jamal and Bay Area Radical Women.
Despite his spirited defense of the help wanted ad, Barnes added that the Freedom Socialist Party has since removed its ad from both Indeed.com and Craigslist.
“The right-wing attack is very hypocritical,” the socialist — who wants a $20 minimum wage but has sought a $13-per-hour web developer — lamented.
The Daily Caller predicted such an outcome, by the way, and saved a screenshot of the ad as it appeared at Indeed.com. You can see it below.
In 2012, the Freedom Socialist Party’s national platform championed “full employment” and an increase in the minimum wage “to $20 an hour” for all employees in all jobs.
The Freedom Socialist Party’s 2012 political platform also demanded a 70 percent tax rate for “the top 1 percent”; “free multi-lingual public education, including ethnic studies, through college and trade school”; free abortions; bank nationalization; and the cancellation of all free-trade treaties.
Despite last week’s offer of a part-time, 20-hour-per-week, $13-per-hour job, the party also called for a 30-hour work week for everyone “with no cut in pay” and “a guaranteed annual income.”
A part-time web developer making $13 per hour and working 20 hours per week would bring home about $13,600 annually, before taxes.
The Seattle headquarters of the Freedom Socialist Party appears to be located in an apartment building directly across the street from a Bank of America branch.
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LOL, I hope they pass the “full employment, $20/hr guaranteed for doing nothing” plan. I’ll fuckin do that all day and even some overtime too. Going to work is for suckers.
$13/hr for a web developer??? Maybe some 14 yr old.
How can sane rational people hope to combat this level of rationality?
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”.
Talk about shittin’ in your own hands. John
Likewise congress passes laws that apply to everyone but they exempt themselves.
I’ve always felt that the most important law that should be implemented immediately would be one that stated all laws apply to everyone equally, no exemptions allowed.
That’s the one law congress will never pass.
This is NOTHING!
I work for Universities as an Adjunct, you know, UNIVERSITIES , the central promoter of leftist though, unionism, Fair-Everything and such.
Well the University system treats us LIKE DIRT. We have no job security, our contracts are semester to semester, so I never know if I have a job at all the following semester, and I have to keep office hours and by “on-call” via e-mail. When you consider the strange hours college students keep I could be handling emails all night the dat before papers are due. Lately they have been packing the classrooms, creating so much work for me that I make LESS THAN minimum wage. Sometimes if the class has > 25 students, I make MUCH less than minimum. I don’t know how this is even legal but somehow Uni’s are except from those laws I guess.
BTW, in case you were wondering, this is both PUBLIC and PRIVATE, both of them have similar practices.
IF you don’t believe me just hit the internet, Adjuncts have been bitching about this for years now on-line. It might make a nice follow-up article to this.
Peak Finance – universities employment follows the Union model. Seniority is everything. Everyone can and will be sacrificed to the good of those on top. Those on top at one university will be sacrificed to the collective of those on top at all universities.
The idea of tenure is bullshit – it entrenches the old at the expense of the young. If you are good enough, who needs tenure? The only ones who need tenure are those that suck ass.
That said – if you did not know what you were getting into, then you have only yourself to blame, as this is in fact WELL KNOWN, just as you yourself say.
You jumped into a sewer and are now complaining about the smell.
Oftentimes the people who know best aren’t right every time. Mostly they are but, like you and I, they’re not perfect. Because of that they need a little latitude. Minimum wage compliance is just one example.
If the best thinkers and society’s experts had to follow all the rules, as the common people do, the experts might be hamstrung and squelched by a single mistake. We wouldn’t want that, would we?
Better is that the best aren’t limited in the least. Better it is that the rules don’t apply to the best at the beginning. You agree, don’t you? Certainly, you’re not one of those reactionaries who hates people and hates progress (vote thumbs up for America’s future.) Or, if you hate people, progress, and America, vote rthumbs down…. but I know that you’re better than that.
Socialists lie,What is new?
While you fuckers are talking about minimum wage, I’ll be stocking up on rice, beans and 200lbs of suet for the ebola Apocalypse.
@LLPOH
I think you don’t quite understand what’s going on:
“The idea of tenure is bullshit – it entrenches the old at the expense of the young. If you are good enough, who needs tenure? The only ones who need tenure are those that suck ass.”
This has nothing to do with tenure. Adjuncts are not on the tenure track and will never be. Departments have very few tenured professors, “real” professors around, the workload falls to the adjunct professors.
“That said – if you did not know what you were getting into, then you have only yourself to blame, as this is in fact WELL KNOWN, just as you yourself say. You jumped into a sewer and are now complaining about the smell.”
This is a really fucked-up stupid thing to say to someone. You are on this site and should know better. Just curious, do you make fun of all people not happy with their jobs? As if you haven’t fucking noticed, there is kind of a tiny economic problem going on, and many people are really forced to work opportunities they normally would not.