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To: bfree
This is totally absurd. It is hard to argue with twisted logic like this.

Please explain what is so twisted about it? Is is twisted to watch your employees suffer, if they suffer, while they mind the shop for you to have your vacation? It is not twisted for a few employers I have known who paid their employees a living wage and never took vacations. I've seen that, too, but it is uncommon because usually the spouse of the employer, if he/she is able to keep their marriage intact, wants their share of the good life. After all, they've earned it even if they don't work because they are married to a winner and not a loser. Winners deserve all the perks that come with the good life. Losers are, well losers, and are good for nothing except for what they can do for you on the cheap and are fortunate if you don't abuse them in the process.

I was talking to my granddaughter about people who have to drag out in the cold early in the morning to work at McDonald's. A lot of people are demanding and abusive towards them she says. She works at the mall and doesn't want to work at McDonalds or Wal Mart. She takes abuse at the mall sometimes, too. She says she has to buy at Wal Mart because it is so cheap. I told her that is ok. I don't try to dissuade people from shopping there if they choose to. I'll tackle it from another angle.

Some of the arguments about Wal Mart are rather silly because you can find the same or better-quality merchandise on sale locally at another store or get better deals on the internet if you know how to work it. Wal Mart is convenient because it is one-stop shopping for busy people, and their groceries are cheap, but there are other economical food markets that are just as cheap or cheaper, but you might have to go to a higher-crime area to shop there.

542 posted on 05/28/2005 5:10:27 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Aliska

Your ramblings are becoming harder and harder to comprehend.
This country spends trillions of dollars a year on education, re-education, job training, etc. Why, to help people improve. If you don't wish to participate in these programs and many others that cost taxpayers trillions of dollars, why then blame the employer? You obviously believe that people who take all the risks should not benefit. Well, they do and will. There are supposed to be rewards for risk taking.


544 posted on 05/28/2005 5:23:20 PM PDT by bfree (Liberals are evil)
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To: Aliska
I've seen that, too, but it is uncommon because usually the spouse of the employer, if he/she is able to keep their marriage intact, wants their share of the good life. After all, they've earned it even if they don't work because they are married to a winner and not a loser.

It is a good (although sad observation) that it is often the spouse (I will not specify the gender) who is greedy and unconsiderate. There are also politicians who by themselves are quite nice, but their spouse has great ambitions and lust for power.

549 posted on 05/28/2005 5:27:59 PM PDT by A. Pole (Mandarin Meng-tzu: "The duty of the ruler is to ensure the prosperous livelihood of his subjects.")
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To: Aliska

"Is is twisted to watch your employees suffer, if they suffer, while they mind the shop for you to have your vacation?"

Where were these "suffering" employees when the now employer was starting the business and couldn't take vacations, worked 7 days a week for 16 or more hours a day?

"Winners deserve all the perks that come with the good life. Losers are, well losers, and are good for nothing except for what they can do for you on the cheap and are fortunate if you don't abuse them in the process."

The only area of our economy that has winners and loosers is sports and lottery. The rest of the economy is based on doers and whiners, producers and moochers. You are hoping to reward the moochers with the fruit produced by the doers.

"get better deals on the internet if you know how to work it. "

Why do you find effort/work to be noble when it is to find deals that do not reward Walmart, but you find work that leads to higher wages to be unnecessary?


979 posted on 06/03/2005 9:45:34 AM PDT by CSM ( If the government has taken your money, it has fulfilled its Social Security promises. (dufekin))
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