MaggieMae
Reality bits
- Apr 3, 2009
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Yes because unions would have prevented this situation. Those evil mine owners like just killing off their miners and needing to conduct a job search every 3 months.
You've always been a fairly rotten person, but sometimes you go over the top that make you even more disgusting than normal.
I used to think that too many right wingers have drunk the kool-aid.
Take Unions. They have given us the 40 hour work week, paid vacations, overtime and holidays.
Republicans have voted against child labor laws, health care, minimum wage and Social Security. At the same time, cutting corporate taxes and removing regulations that lead to disasters just like this very one.
I keep thinking, are they stupid, evil, sick? But I realize, it's a different mindset. Democrats believe the health of the country is reflected by it's citizens. Republicans think the health of the country is reflected by it's corporations. To Republcians, the US is like a beehive. So what if a few bees die or the sick bees die off? It's the hive that's important. They go where they are told and believe what they are ordered to believe, for he good of the hive.
Another delusional rant?
Unions didnt give us the 40 hr work week, paid vactions, overtime, or holidays. Especially not holidays unless you're suggesting that unions have existed for thousands of years.
We've had thousands of years without regulations controling every aspect of life. The whole concept of liberty is lost on you. It's downright scary that people are as paranoid about businesses as you are.
There is nothing evil about a corporation, sole proprietorship, partnership, or LLC. People don't go around targeting their employees. If they did, they would quickly go out of business.
I have news for you. Not everyone views the employees as pathetic peons like you do. We live in the real world. Where treating people poorly is bad business and destroying your best capital is completely stupid.
Minimum wage destroys jobs. Especially Federal minimum wage which is stupid because prices fluxuate from region to region.
Social security is unconstitution and a complete deception to the people. It's the greatest ponzi scheme in existance. You lie to people and tell them that if they pay now they will be taken care of later in life. But you spend that money on other things and to pay the older people now in the hopes that most of the people will die before they ever come to collect. But now that the population has shifted and you are paying out more than you are taken it, it's a completely certainly that the system won't survive long enough for anyone currently entering the workforce to benefit from it. Not to mention the amounts paid to the elderly are a fraction of what they paid. There is nothing noble about lying to people.
Child labor laws should not be a Federal issue. It's up to the states to decide how to enforce industry within their own state.
But you don't really care for that do you? You want all power to Federal government, everyone else be damned. As long as you can pretend to care, you're happy with outsourcing your responsibility to care for your neighbor.
Another dilusional rant? Jazus--one non-sequitur after another!