Re: moslem shoe bomb terrorist sentenced

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:18:10 GMT, Chip Anderson
<b_anders*NOSPAM*@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>Patrick Dolan <NoBrits@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>news:lfb5m1hkej2d2gqf5t95h0coj3bdkmeug1@xxxxxxx:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:09:00 GMT, Chip Anderson
>> <b_anders*NOSPAM*@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>>>"Norman Leonski" <norman_leonski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>>news:1130429429.621658.190140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chip Anderson wrote:
>>>>> Patrick Dolan <NoBrits@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>>>> news:v191m15asf84n8n62kj6i9srilcdterrl1@xxxxxxx:
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:20:41 GMT, Chip Anderson
>>>>> > <b_anders*NOSPAM*@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >>Their rights are looked after by government no matter what wage
>>>>> >>they are earning. In the words of Walter Williams, "The idea that
>>>>> >>minimum wage legislation is an anti-poverty tool is simply sheer
>>>>> >>nonsense."
>>>>> >
>>>>> > How would the government prevent some *** sweat shop from
>>>>> > paying 50 cents and hour to those desperate enough to take it, if
>>>>> > the employer could legally offer that wage?
>>>>>
>>>>> Why would the government want to prevent that? Simply because you
>>>>> label them "assholes"?
>>>>
>>>> There will always be people who have no consideration for the
>>>> suffering of others. I'm talking about someone who will hire a person
>>>> who is desperate for money and then work them 16 hours a day so that
>>>> they can afford to meet the minimum requirements of a living
>standard,
>>>> ie: roof, food and sanitation.
>>>
>>>Those desperate folk can always look for other work. It's not slavery
>>>and they are not tied to any particular employer.
>>>
>>>> If this type of employer is allowed to hire "slaves" at this type of
>>>> wage, then our country will back up into the middle ages.
>>>
>>>Once again, it's not slavery and your dire predictions are without
>merit.
>>>
>>>> Where do your feelings on this matter derive from? Have you had some
>>>> life events that have made you feel this way?
>>>
>>>I arrive at my conclusions not through "feelings" but through reason.
>>>Try it sometime.
>>>
>>>>>A certain minimum wage is not a right.
>>
>> LET THEM EAT CAKE!
>>
>> The minimum wage is in place to prevent the abuse of the working
>> class. You obviously disagree. However, the laws that created the
>> minimum wage are in place and will always be enforced to protect the
>> people they were enacted for. If those laws were not correct, they
>> would have been challenged and repealed. They haven't been.
>
>Of couse they haven't. Folks like youself are fooled everytime into
>voting for demagogues who support such things as the minimum wage. After
>all, it's "for the children" or "for the working man" or some other such
>nonsense designed to evoke feelings rather than reason.

You are actually the first person I've spoken to that doesn't think
that having a legal minimum wage is a good thing.

I'm interested in learning why you think the way you do about this.

Would you explain it to me?
.

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