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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 08:50 PM Jul 2018

Watch Live: Sanders Hosts "CEOs vs. Workers" Town Hall to Take on "Extravagant" Executive Pay...

From the article:

Watch Live: Sanders Hosts "CEOs vs. Workers" Town Hall to Take on "Extravagant" Executive Pay and Poverty Wages...


"How does it happen that there are major corporations in America where CEOs receive extravagant compensation packages, who pay their workers wages so low that many of them are forced to rely on food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing—subsidized by taxpayers—to survive?"


To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/16/sanders-hosts-ceos-vs-workers-town-hall-take-extravagant-executive-pay-and-poverty?cd-
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Watch Live: Sanders Hosts "CEOs vs. Workers" Town Hall to Take on "Extravagant" Executive Pay... (Original Post) guillaumeb Jul 2018 OP
Video: Donkees Jul 2018 #1
Thanks for posting this. guillaumeb Jul 2018 #4
K&R nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2018 #2
They forgot to change the title to Eko Jul 2018 #3
Both are important. guillaumeb Jul 2018 #5
The enablers if tr$&p are these same CEOs who are therefore siding with Putin. nt Lucky Luciano Jul 2018 #6

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
4. Thanks for posting this.
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 08:54 PM
Jul 2018

Sanders is a consistent and constant voice for the workers, and for a progressive agenda.

Eko

(7,281 posts)
3. They forgot to change the title to
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 08:53 PM
Jul 2018

"President of the USA is a traitor". I mean, I agree, this is a major problem but the president is a traitor seems a bit more important.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
5. Both are important.
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 08:58 PM
Jul 2018

A case can be made that Trump's (admittedly phony) embrace of economic issues like wage stagnation is one reason that some workers voted for him. Trump is motivated solely by his economic self-interest.

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