JRK can be petty and insulting guys, but, in my observations here, that has only been when he has been personally attacked or accused by others. I think he is dead wrong about his version of what a 'living wage' is and how it should be provided, but he has at least been making a decent debate of it, something few 'libs' usually can do. For the most part, except for the mini food fights now and then, I have been enjoying the pros and cons of the discussion.
And JRK, you might object to being classified a 'lib' by me, but looking to government for a forced solution to what should be a private sector problem is just simply a modern American liberal concept.
The bottom line is, a conservative knows that whenever you give the government the right to tell you what you MUST pay your employees, you have handed over another piece of the unalienable rights our Founders put their very lives on the line to give us. When the government is given power to assign what 'rights' we will have, we have no rights, but only whims of government. What the government 'gives' us can be taken away at the slightest whim.
An income furnished by somebody else has never been and should not now be a 'right'. The proper way to see labor is as a commodity or cost of doing business as much as lights, heat, water, transportation, materials, supplies, etc. are part of the cost of doing business. As such labor will have a specific value for any employer and it is the employer who knows what that value is, not the government.
Get government out of it as much as possible and let the free market work, and we will again see American wages exceeding those of anywhere else in the world.
But the guy who is worthless on the job will still remain worthless just the same.
Lib?
cuttting down taxes as well as how much the govt is involved in our lives is not a liberal idea
I do not know where any of you live but in the south there are millions of people makin 375-425 a week or less that are far from lazy
What is it I have ever stated that this was some give away? We have that in the form of wellfare
Guys I am going to say this again, I do not know where you people live, I have worked from Oregan to Florida to Kentucky and there are millions of hard working people who deserve more than there getting
I have reaches a point with this that each of you have offered no real solutions, You keep making it about things its not
I have run out of things to say
Pay a hard working person a living wage
cut down on well fare
medicare
medicade
lower taxes
Thats not a give away.
WE PAY ALL TAXES,
My god yo people have no idea how much taking 20,000 a year out of my check is in my life neck deep now. I cannot grasp why you think those corporations we are paying there taxes for should be given it all?
What in gods name about this is being a lib?
BUSINESS COLLECTS WEALTH FROM YOU
WHO DEFEND THEM T
SO WE PAY TAXES SO THOSE WHO NEED WELFARE BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE A LIVING WAGE IN THIS COUNTRY, THAT IS NOT MY FAULT, WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO KEEP PAYING FOR IT?,
I have had enough of this
if you want to debate what the debate is about, I am all in, you keep making this about everything but whats about and offer NO RESOLUTIONS