Posted on 06/01/2011 5:02:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Bums and leeches on society are.....well....bums and leeches on society! Always have been...always will be.
Democratic politicians make such a huge deal about the minimum wage not because of the poor or trying to help somebody. Minimum wage clauses are built (probably) in every union contract. When the minimum wage goes up, the union wage scale goes up too. Havent you noticed that every time theres a minimum wage boost that theres also a jump in real inflation? Wages go up, more money is chasing the same amount of goods, and goods become relatively scarcer; the price goes up.
The real purpose for increasing the minimum wage is to allow union negotiators more leverage by pointing out that their members are far more qualified than mere minimum wage people.
Having been on both sides of the table I see your point, but being on the company's side of the table when that "more qualified" quote comes up, I simply state that I can hire three people for the price of one union member and have them just as qualified within 6 months, and then it is at my discretion to increase the wages or not. But I run a plant in a right to work state which is a little easier to deal with.
Milton Friedman called the minimum wage a “monument to the power of superficial thinking.”
In other words, minimum wage increases are just a way of increasing the output of the
DEMOCRAT PARTY’S MONEY LAUNDERING SYSTEM.
“I believe the creators of the welfare state had good intentions”
No they didn’t.
Congressman Jack Brooks let my old man in on the little secret, LBJ’s Great Society was never intended to get anyone out of poverty.
Southern blacks were moving off their small farms and moving to the cities, mainly in the north.
This movement left a shortage of farm labor for the larger farms.
They thought it was a way to keep cheap farm labor. They could collect a govt check and work for farmers off the books.
There is a VERY powerful reason that leftists and sheeperals PREFER to think superficially.
They stop examining an issue at the very point where the REAL goal is fulfilled. That real goal is to justify the lie that “I’m a good person” and to assuage the visceral knowledge that they are NOT “a good person” when measured against The Standard (none of us are).
Therefore, when they think about any issue, once their sense of self-assurance is fulfilled, there is no need, or DESIRE to think any further. In fact, pointing out the downsides of their position on an issue makes them uncomfortable and angry, because you’re “attacking” their sense of self-worth.
The _supporters_ of the welfare system _wanted to believe_ they had good intentions.
That was after VP Johnson led the coup that killed President Kennedy. Johnson got religion after Kennedy was brutally murdered. The end apparently justified the means.
When I first came on there was a post about John Stossel and I was pretty negative about him. Another Freeper told me to listen to him & give him a chance.
I did & I was amazed at how I never liked him. I agree w/ everything I have heard him say! He also has a great sense of humor! Where I teach I see the single women having children and not marrying because they would lose all their gov’t goodies. It’s such common sense to cut off the gravy train and I bet births would go down; it just seems logical.
Next year one of my special needs kids will be a girl whose mother has 10!!!!!!!!!!! other children. She does not show up to meetings for her daughter & I can only assume that the others are probably very deprived......................only in America.............
Anyway, I think John Stossel rocks and I love that he’s not afraid to say what he thinks. I’m a big fan now.
My comment about the “real purpose” has as much to do with filling congressional coffers as it has to do with union negotiators.
Indeed it does, but the sheeperals only see it from the angle of "you're going to cut off those who already need it".
They also don't believe that such incentives or disincentives have any effect on behavior. They believe that young girls will continue to have sex and babies regardless of the availability of social programs.
And then they buy stuff at Wal-Mart, which purchases from countries that use slave labor.
83 percent of Americans want OTHER PEOPLE to pay.
People want to believe they are transferring the wealth from the rich to the poor, when in fact the “WEALTH” is being transferred from the poor to the rich.
Trickle up economics.
Giving people free goods and services isn't transferring wealth to the people on bottom receiving the goods and services, the wealth is transversed to the people on top that are providing the goods and services.
Give somebody a free ice cream cone they can't do squat with it, it's not wealth.
The guy that sold the ice cream cone is the one that got the wealth.
As Judge Judy said, “Dumb is forever.”
To me it seems very similar to Obama’s record:
Healthcare law
Auto bailout
Stimulus
Trying (failing) to close Gitmo
Hopefully that means Obama will suffer a similar fate
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