Hillary..."getting things done" regarding minimum wage

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Last edited Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:20 AM - Edit history (1)

But who cares right?
I mean where is Honduras anyway?



Hillary Clinton has Hondurans’ blood on her hands


Berta Cáceres RIP

Since 2009, a remarkable percentage of the violence has been directed at the resistance movement. Murders, beatings, rapes and threats have all been waged against anyone who organizes for their basic rights.

“Homicides, feminicides, political persecution, disappearances and targeted assassinations have escalated since the 2009 military coup against elected President Manuel Zelaya.” (July 17, 2014, Telesur)

Clinton’s book, “Hard Choices,” she wrote: “In the subsequent days [following the coup], I spoke with my counterparts around the hemisphere, including Secretary [Patricia] Espinosa in Mexico. We strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot.”

Why U.S. wanted Zelaya out

Why was Zelaya so dangerous to U.S. imperialism? Why did they want him out?

The International Action Center sent a delegation to Honduras with Honduras USA Resistencia not long after the June 2009 coup. Juan Barahona, labor leader and representative of the National Front of the People’s Resistance (FNRP), told the delegation that Zelaya was about to support a major raise in the minimum wage. Others corroborated this, with some saying the raise was 60 percent.

“This infuriated two U.S. companies, Chiquita Brands International (formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food Company,” said John Perkins, author of “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” in an interview with the website Truthout. The big corporations feared that a rise in Honduras’ minimum wage could spread to other countries in Latin America.

The 2009 coup helped militarize the country even further. Marjorie Cohen writes in Truthdig, “Amid all this, the United States has added two military bases in Honduras — bringing the total to 14 — and increased its financing of the Honduran police and military.”

The illegal, U.S.-backed coup ousted a progressive president and ushered in a wave of repression. Hillary Rodham Clinton has the blood of Berta Cáceres, Nelson García and the over 25,000 people that have been killed since 2009 on her hands.

http://www.workers.org/articles/2016/03/19/hillary-clinton-has-hondurans-blood-on-her-hands/

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1. exactly

thats all they are about.

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2. $15 is too high. She supports $12. Even that will be a heavy lift to get through Congress.

[TCJ70]

3. Maybe if she started at $15 she could get closer to that $12...

...starting at $12 won't get you there.

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5. This is not a business negotiation. This is a political negotiation.

[TCJ70]

6. I agree, but the key word is negotiation...

...and if your opponents position is "Do nothing" yours has to be "Do everything". That's the only way to find a true compromise and not be moved into your opponents territory. Remember when the public option was taken off the table before ACA negotiations even started? That's how we lose ground...kinda like starting negotiations at your desired end point...

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4. This article is about far worse

Or did you even bother?

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7. If Hillary is too weak to get it done, maybe we need a stronger candidate. Bernie comes to mind.

[Trust Buster]

8. You don't understand our system of government. Congress has the final say.

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9. Then why does HRC wan to be president? That is what I don't understand. IF she is tooo weak to do

The job. That is what I was responding to.

But thanks for your effort to enlighten me on the working of the US government.

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10. Yeah but that's abroad....

Oh wait, I forgot Americans were supposed to wage share with all other countries because we care so much about global poverty.