Hypocrites, Liars, Deceivers And The Freedom Socialist Party. Sickening Double Talk.

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WHILE LOBBYING FOR $20 MINIMUM WAGE, ONE SOCIALIST GROUP WILL ONLY PAY $13 AN HOUR

OCTOBER 19, 2014 EDITOR BIG GOVERNMENT, MINIMUM WAGE, SEATTLE,SOCIALISTS

The Freedom Socialist Party claims Seattle as their party’s headquarters.

As one of the most expensive cities in the nation, they feel it’s necessary for everyone to receive a fair minimum wage. Earlier this year they helped back a proposal for a $15 minimum wage in the state of Washington.

Owing to the high cost of living, they said there should be a unified front to make a higher minimum wage a reality.

According to their manifesto the nation should have:

Job programs at union wages with childcare available

No cuts to Social Security, Medicaid orMedicare. Raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour. Provide a guaranteed annual income. Free medical care for all, including reproductive services and abortion.

And as they said, “compromise destroys solidarity,” that the party must “leave no one behind.”

So it’s a bit ironic they would advertise for a position for a web developer at $7below their ideal minimum wage.

What gives?

Take a look at the ad.

As Reason.com reports:

Although the average annual salary of a web developer in the U.S. is around $62,500, the Freedom Socialist Party only wants to pay $13 an hour, which would be $26,000 a year.

Except that the party won’t hire someone full-time, so their next web developer’s total compensation won’t even be that modest chunk of change. Perhaps they’re just trying to protect their employeesfrom the temptations of “capitalist greed.”

Reason contacted the party and confirmed that the listing is legitimate, and that in spite of the party’s commitment to unionizing laborers, the available position is not a union job. Don’t count on any of those other sweet benefits either, part-timer.

It’s this kind of “Do as I say, not as I do” double speak that makes it very difficult to take anyone with a socialist persuasion seriously.

Do they really think it will go unnoticed when they shout from the rooftops everyone needs a fair minimum wage when they’re not even willing to try and make it happen themselves?

What they’re going to find is if they get someone to fill that role they probably won’t be qualified to do it.

Pay free market wages and you’ll get the quality you seek.

Though they can’t see it, the free market can fix the problem of low wages.

And a forced minimum wage would reduce the quality of work done by employees across the board.

But it’s doubtful they fully understand that.