Mikeoxenormous
Diamond Member
You know Joe, in a country that is supposed to be free, isn't up to the person to get the wages that he deserves? Why is it up to the company to provide wages a person demands? If someone is worth 50 cents to do a job, shouldn't that wage be 50 cents? Why pay 15 dollars to someone who isn't worth that much? If someone is worth 15 dollars be paid the same as someone only worth 50 cents? Do you think that the person worth 15 dollars would be resentful of the person who makes the same but only worth 15 cents?So what is a FAIR WAGE? $15 , $20 , $25 and if that is enacted do we get rid of WELFARE since everyone is getting a FAIR WAGE?
$15.00 would seem fair to me.
So what if we did have a world were everyone had a job making a living wage? One where you had job protections and couldn't be fired by a capricious boss without cause?
That would probably eliminate the need for welfare, except for the disabled.
But the problem is, most 'entitlements' go to middle class white people- Unemployment, Social Security, Medicare. What poor people get in "Welfare' is really less than 1% of the GDP. Some of it like SNAP is designed specifically to prop up certain industries.
The Pilgrim’s Failed Socialist Experiment
Few realize that New England’s first form of government under the Pilgrims was communalism (socialism) where “each produced according to his ability and each received according to his needs,” more than two centuries before Karl Marx first penned the above script. The result of “share the wealth” then and now was, and always will be, shared poverty.
The first two years the result was shortages and starvation. About half the colonists died. No one did more than the minimal because the incentive to excel was destroyed. The industrious were neutralized. Bradford wrote of the scarcity of food “no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expect any.” The socialist experiment Bradford added, “was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to the benefit and comfort. For the young men, that were most able and fit for labour and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense….” In other words, socialism made strong men lazy.
After two years of such, with the survival of the colony at stake, they contemplated upon “how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery.” They opted to abandon the incentive killing socialist contract in favor of the free market. And so they “assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end…”
Which is why you liberals are the stupidest mother fuckers in the universe and will never learn.A delighted Governor Bradford wrote: “This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor… could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.” In other words, the free market is a much greater stimulus than governmental force. The Pilgrims now wished to work because they got to keep the benefits of their labor. “Instead of famine now God gave them plenty,” Bradford wrote, “and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God…. Any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day.”