"Allyourlaborarebelongtous!" ~Mitt Romney
Yeah but one of those parties is the evil ice cream shop owner and the other is just a guy who should be able to own a home, 2 new cars and send his kid to college scooping ice cream. Without government stepping in and corralling that evil ice cream shop owner, he would eventually own everything and we'd all be slaves. Come on Rob, think of the children. (oh wait, don't think of the children, they should either not work or earn enough to raise a family).
Commie bitch? Really? Come join us in the modern world. You won't have to act all mad and scared here. Turn off your TV and allow your own opinions to flourish. You'll like them, 'cause they yours and you won't sound like a moron anymore.
Really? You're going to quote Milton Friedman? When are people going to have logic kick in and get over this idiotic lie that if we give the rich more money they'll create jobs. We've done that and its sunk our economy. Oh if we just get rid of minimum wage laws (as if they weren't low enough already) and allow people to be payed a dollar an hour we could have more jobs. Because that makes a lot of fucking sense. It should only take about 5 seconds for a semi intelligent person to hear that argument and think "this sounds like a load of utter bullshit". Who is going to benefit from these ideas? The private sector. The private sector doesn't care about whether or not someone has a job or is making a living wage. If you're making living wage you're replaceable. And if the economy is so bad where no one has to abide by a minimum standard of compensation, people will work for anything. It increases the pool of desperate workers who don't make demands and are "grateful" just to have a shit dead end job. That is the type of economy right wing libertarian-ism leads to. That's the goal from a business perspective. Of course if you talk to a retard libertarian they've been indoctrinated with some idiotic nonsensical Utopian dream.
So people are too stupid to be able to choose whether to take a job or not?
Which means NOBODY would work for that rate and the employer will have to raise the hourly wage offer to get someone to take the job.
Oh definitely not initially, I'm talking the end result. It's a regressive system. If that's true than why do people work for minimum wage? I personally wouldn't, its insulting, but a TON of people still do because they have no choice. Does heading even further in that direction seriously seem like a good idea to you? Leaving the welfare of society up to a bunch of repeat criminals in big business? Or would putting in rules seem more logical? I don't know about you, but I'd go with some intelligent regulations, considering it's a lack of regulation that got us in all this mess to begin with.
No offense personally, but this kind of logic is beyond idiotic. The reason there isn't much of a response to these ideas is kind of a "where you would you start" issue. To explain to someone who obviously doesn't take into account all the variables and history involved would take forever. We've tried this route, and we crashed the economy, lowered the standard of living, stagnated wages, etc.
Minimum wage did not crash the economy giving irresponsible people large loans did. Trickle up economics doesn't seem to work any better than down.
...the best criminals are the ones that live off the labor of others....hmmm....government? I'd encourage you to ignore bad laws, but not to commit real crimes against others. Peace.
