The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: minimum wage

  • The Anatomy of a Union Buster

    They want you divided, not united.

  • Happy International Workers’ Day

    Power to the people.

  • Maximum Wage

    There’s no reason that any American should be homeless or hungry.

  • Dan Price: Man of my Freakin’ Dreams

    I long for the days when I had the mindset that allowed me to write the post below. Sadly, the scales have fallen from my eyes. Once you’ve read this post, you may want to check this one out, for a dose of reality. https://theviewfromadrawbridge.com/2022/09/02/deprogramming-myself-from-dan-prices-cult-of-personality/ Somewhere in my beloved city of Seattle is a guy…

  • Forcing the Issue

    As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry, I got a chance to see Bernie Sanders speak here in Seattle on Saturday night. It went really well. At 15,000 attendants, it was his largest crowd to date, and about 3 times larger than Hillary Clinton’s largest gathering. But earlier in the day, he attempted to speak…

  • Practical Experience

    Politicians make decisions every day that affect people’s lives. With great power comes great responsibility. When they negatively impact the world around them, I think they should personally feel that impact as well. Maybe then they would take their choices more seriously. Governors of states that have chosen to forego the Medicaid subsidies, thus depriving…

  • I’m Sick to Death of the Middle Class

    Here’s an interesting little tidbit. There has never been a concrete definition as to what constitutes the Middle Class in America. I think the politicians like it that way. They want you to assume you’re a member of the Middle Class so that you can think they actually care about you without feeling too resentful…