Bjorkman Coming to Avon for Chili and Spicy Anti-Corporate Campaigning
By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2018-01-06
Hey, if you’re hungry and in Bon Homme County, go have chili with Tim Bjorkman tonight in Avon!
Tim Bjorkman will be the featured speaker on Sat Jan 6 at the Old Fashion Bon Homme Democrat Christmas Chili feed at the Avon Fire Hall. Homemade Chili will be served starting at 6:30 p.m., and Tim will speak around 7 p.m. Come one, come all to hear a great speaker, have some good chili and a good time! [Frank Kloucek, e-mail, 2018.01.06]
“We need to get affordable, timely health care for every American citizen,” he said. “No other issue tops that in my view.”
Part of the problem lies with the fact that insurance costs too much and leaves too many people on the sidelines, Bjorkman said. By the time they go to the hospital, they typically end up in the emergency room and that cost is borne by everyone else, he said.
Hey, and there’s Tim at the Sioux Falls Democratic Forum yesterday! The man gets around….
“So much of it has to do with this fundamental problem that our Congress sadly is way too controlled by corporate special interest money,” he said.
“The first thing we do is we cannot continue to send people who we like to go to Washington who want a career there and are going to play the Washington game of raising the big money to fend off any challengers back in the home state in elections and then doing the bidding of big money donors,” Bjorkman said.
“Which is exactly how the tax bill got passed,” he said. “They sold you and me out to the wealthiest Americans and corporate interests” [Roger Larsen, “House Candidate Shares Grass-Roots Ideals at Democratic Forum,” Huron Plainsman, 2018.01.05].
Tim Bjorkman appears to recognize the rich folks are stealing more of our country, and he sounds determined to steal it back. Give that man a second bowl of chili!
Bravo Representative elect Bjorkman. While his opponents are blathering about the corporate theft of our treasure, a real fighter is exposing the grand theft. We need Tim in Washington to end the cabal that we are now faced with. I shall have a ceremonious cup of chili in his honor with a donation to our cause, real populism.
grudznick
2018-01-06 16:29
You can’t fill your belly with a cup of chili. You need unlimited refillable bowls and those little paper tickets you buy that you can redeem for a cold glass of beer. And the chili needs to have fewer chunks of tomatoes and hefty portions of beef.
jerry
2018-01-06 18:09
Exactly Mr. grudznick, that is the point of Mr. Bjorkman’s speech. We have low unemployment with equally low wages for those working. You must have read this to show that corporations are just pocketing the money from profits with no desire to raise wages for the workers who make the profits. That is corporate malfeasance as indicated.
“Year-over-year nominal hourly wages grew at 2.5 percent in December. The figure below shows nominal wage growth over the last 10 years. Wage growth remains below levels consistent with the Fed’s target inflation rate and trend productivity growth, and is simply not putting worrisome upward pressure on inflation. The labor market—and surely the workers in it—can withstand stronger wage growth for a sustained period of time. Wages will rise faster when employers need to compete more for workers, rather than the other way around.”” This is from this very good article http://www.epi.org/blog/the-economy-has-made-great-strides-since-the-recession-but-weakness-remains/
Clearly it shows what you are saying that the worker needs to have fewer chunks of tomatoes and more hefty portions of beef.
Mr. Bjorkman continues to show strong leadership qualities while Krebs and Opie continue to show they would be meaningless in Washington.
grudznick
2018-01-06 18:46
Mr. jerry, when you work harder you can earn more money and buy better chili; the sort with meaty chunks and no space filling and clogging beans. If you are looking for free or cheap chili, you will get a lot of broth and boiled tomatoes.
This is why if people don’t like their wages they should go out and get a better job with better wages. They don’t because they are lazy and want hand outs. Free hand-out chili is broth and tomatoes.
jerry
2018-01-07 07:38
Mr. grudznick, from your musings, it looks as if you have been unemployed for some time now. To take you down memory lane there are questions that need answered. The first would be where do you find the jobs that pay at least $14.14 per hour? That number is what is required to have a living wage in South Dakota. Secondly, if you are fortunate enough to land that living wage job, then what about being able to improve your wage standings with timely raises adjusted to the profits of the company you work to make successful? A rising tide, lifts all boats.
Corporate incomes are the highest they have ever been and are rising more quickly than ever before and yet, wages remain stagnant in comparison. Two large telecommunication companies that said if they could only get a tax break, they would hire the masses with high wages, have instead laid off hundreds of their workers and kept the money. There are only so many job categories available and some of these workers are forced to have two or more jobs to achieve living wages. That means that they are working harder for less. They do not want handouts, they want jobs that will sustain them. The broth offered is pretty thin when adjusted to the high cost of living here in South Dakota as well as the rest of the country. Check out the rentals for your area and see how much of that take home pay goes to put a roof over the noggin. Then check out your utilities, transportation expenses and that sort of thing. Health insurance costs for shared expense with your employer are also a significant factor. All in all, it costs a whole bunch more to live than when you were a sapling.
Working people only want to be treated fairly and compensate for the hard work they perform day in and day out. I would think that you would know such a thing, if you yourself had ever been a working man.
Bravo Representative elect Bjorkman. While his opponents are blathering about the corporate theft of our treasure, a real fighter is exposing the grand theft. We need Tim in Washington to end the cabal that we are now faced with. I shall have a ceremonious cup of chili in his honor with a donation to our cause, real populism.
You can’t fill your belly with a cup of chili. You need unlimited refillable bowls and those little paper tickets you buy that you can redeem for a cold glass of beer. And the chili needs to have fewer chunks of tomatoes and hefty portions of beef.
Exactly Mr. grudznick, that is the point of Mr. Bjorkman’s speech. We have low unemployment with equally low wages for those working. You must have read this to show that corporations are just pocketing the money from profits with no desire to raise wages for the workers who make the profits. That is corporate malfeasance as indicated.
“Year-over-year nominal hourly wages grew at 2.5 percent in December. The figure below shows nominal wage growth over the last 10 years. Wage growth remains below levels consistent with the Fed’s target inflation rate and trend productivity growth, and is simply not putting worrisome upward pressure on inflation. The labor market—and surely the workers in it—can withstand stronger wage growth for a sustained period of time. Wages will rise faster when employers need to compete more for workers, rather than the other way around.”” This is from this very good article http://www.epi.org/blog/the-economy-has-made-great-strides-since-the-recession-but-weakness-remains/
Clearly it shows what you are saying that the worker needs to have fewer chunks of tomatoes and more hefty portions of beef.
Mr. Bjorkman continues to show strong leadership qualities while Krebs and Opie continue to show they would be meaningless in Washington.
Mr. jerry, when you work harder you can earn more money and buy better chili; the sort with meaty chunks and no space filling and clogging beans. If you are looking for free or cheap chili, you will get a lot of broth and boiled tomatoes.
This is why if people don’t like their wages they should go out and get a better job with better wages. They don’t because they are lazy and want hand outs. Free hand-out chili is broth and tomatoes.
Mr. grudznick, from your musings, it looks as if you have been unemployed for some time now. To take you down memory lane there are questions that need answered. The first would be where do you find the jobs that pay at least $14.14 per hour? That number is what is required to have a living wage in South Dakota. Secondly, if you are fortunate enough to land that living wage job, then what about being able to improve your wage standings with timely raises adjusted to the profits of the company you work to make successful? A rising tide, lifts all boats.
Corporate incomes are the highest they have ever been and are rising more quickly than ever before and yet, wages remain stagnant in comparison. Two large telecommunication companies that said if they could only get a tax break, they would hire the masses with high wages, have instead laid off hundreds of their workers and kept the money. There are only so many job categories available and some of these workers are forced to have two or more jobs to achieve living wages. That means that they are working harder for less. They do not want handouts, they want jobs that will sustain them. The broth offered is pretty thin when adjusted to the high cost of living here in South Dakota as well as the rest of the country. Check out the rentals for your area and see how much of that take home pay goes to put a roof over the noggin. Then check out your utilities, transportation expenses and that sort of thing. Health insurance costs for shared expense with your employer are also a significant factor. All in all, it costs a whole bunch more to live than when you were a sapling.
Working people only want to be treated fairly and compensate for the hard work they perform day in and day out. I would think that you would know such a thing, if you yourself had ever been a working man.
Reasonable public investments and reasonable regulation foster innovation and improved standards of living. The repubs are on the wrong path, again, when they use their faith-based mythology of the rational market.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/01/05/tax-cuts-and-deregulation-sound-like-good-ideas-they-arent-dan-carney-column/955956001/
Good link sir, and proves very much the direction and point Mr. Bjorkman is taking.
Spicy ? It’s easy to see why the Republicans win over, and over, and over.
I know, Debbie, a liberal South Dakota Democrat is really a moderate Republican in most states. All is relative….