Bernie Sanders speaking for 10 minutes on poverty in the Senate

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan2_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2

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Currently Byrd scolding other Senators for a pre-arranged lineup of speakers

We need to stop saying that highly paid executives "earn" 400 times or 800 times the average wage worker or minimum wage worker.

The get "paid" that amount. I doubt that they "earn" it since that means "to receive as return for effort" or "to be duly worthy of".

Just because they can "steal" that much doesn't mean they "earn" it. I don't believe that any executive who is paid more than $1 million a year "earns" that much.

To say that someone is "paid" that amount is a neutral term. To say they "earn" it means that they are entitled to it. Big difference when you're talking about changing ratios.

For example, if an executive "earns" 800 times what a minimum wage worker is paid, then a raise in the minimum wage could mean that the executive "should" be paid 800 times the new, higher minimum wage.

I didn't know there was that much poverty in the senate, let alone enough to justify 10 minutes of discussion.

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Good one!

Bernie :yourock: