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the Repubs and minimum wage wars....

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, February 19 2014, 0:18:45 (UTC)
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...the latest is a claim that raising the minimum wage would cut jobs....well, why not cut the wage in half and double the jobs? Why not enslave everyone and then put them ALL to work?

As usual, the wrong questions and points are being made...to the claim that jobs will be lost if workers get a living wage, one has to counter with, "well, there will also be laws against taking jobs overseas". It's very easy to work this non-problem out.

In the 50s and 60s when wages were high and you only needed one salary to support a family and you had all those goodies to boot, it seemed to work just fine....businesses made lots of money and so did workers and since workers had money to spend, business made MORE money....all that's changed is the business people want more and more money for doing less and less...for having to actually run a business and keep workers happy and functioning....

It's a silly argument, a silly reason NOT to raise wages...but bless their Fascist hearts, this is exactly what Fascism exists for...and it can only exist, and indeed only came into being, because Democracy gave the chance for the majority, all of them wage-earners, to vote for their own self-interest...and Fascism can't allow that....so somehow workers have to be duped...and if it happens again, they deserve it.

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the Repubs and minimum wage wars.... pancho - Wednesday, February 19 2014, 0:18:45 (UTC)
- Re: the Repubs and minimum wage wars.... Rashad - 02/19 20:59

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