[DugwayDuke]

It's a real shame when conservatives adopt the rhetoric and arguments of the left. This "stroke of genious" by Henry Ford is one of the favorite arguements of the "living wage" crowd. Yet, conservatives of a populist stripe often pick up on it to advance their agenda not noticing that they are arguing on liberal grounds.

But, then, look at this thread. The article in question is undeniably written from a pro-democrat perspective and reads like a DNC press release (or, notice the "one paycheck away" rhetoric, Hillary Clinton's health care task force) and we have a number of conservatives using it to bash a republican.

BTW, Ford's real "storke of genius" was doing away with the production of automobiles as a craftsman's trade and employing the principles of the automated production line and interchangeable parts. This allowed him to produce automobiles at a price cheap enough for the masses to buy. (ending craftsman type production actually resulted in a lower wage) As you point out, increasing wages solely so your employees can buy your product is a dead end street.

[BMiles2112]

I think the best response to this "living wage" crap is your 747 example. That's why I love these threads. You hear the argument on all the other threads that "Liberals deal with emotions, conservatives with facts", then you go to one dealing in the economy and hear nothing but sob stories about the unemployed, the homeless, etc. Not that I don't care about these problems, but the proposed solutions many times could have come straight from Hitlery herself.