Something out of eyesroll's husband's campaign we should all recognize:

redeye

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Fri Aug-22-03 10:56 AM
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Something out of eyesroll's husband's campaign we should all recognize:

http://www.vince4congress.com/business

Another way that I will support business is by supporting labor.
This may seem contradictory to some, but remember:

LABOR + CAPITAL = GOODS AND SERVICES.

Labor is half the equation, and business cannot exist without it. Likewise, where there is no capital, there is no work. Labor and management need each other, and I will seek solutions which will enable both sides to work together toward the goal of common betterment. Businesses that understand that a happy workforce is a productive workforce tend to succeed. We will work together to bring this success to everyone.

We need to remember this. Labor needs enterprise as much as enterprise needs labor (I think that capital is one area that unions can supply as weel as private businessmen - however, they can't supply enterprise). Many a time one of the two sides tries to dominate the other; enterprise does this by paying labor excessively low wages, by forbidding labor to strike, etc., whereas labor does this by shutting down needed operations and services in order to bring enterprise to its knees, or sometimes by revolting. Neither form of class warfare does any good for either of the participant sides.

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goobergunch

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Fri Aug-22-03 10:59 AM
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1. I'd like to see a bill that would

(1) raise the minimum wage to a "living wage"

(2) repeal Taft-Hartley

(3) increase labor standards and collective barganing rights

(4) bar sweatshop imports

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redeye

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Fri Aug-22-03 11:12 AM
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2. I agree with the first three

I am ambivalent toward the last one; sweatshops, arguably, are a necessary step from an agrarian society to a modern one. We in the first world had them a 100 years ago, that's for sure. The question is, are they necessary for the progress from lack of development to development?

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bryant69

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Fri Aug-22-03 11:27 AM
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3. Yeah, but

If the profits are not staying in the country but are flowing out into the west, I'm not sure that sweat shops are going to build the economy. It seems like we in the west have a vested interest in keeping them broke and willing to work for cheap.

Bryant
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redeye

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Fri Aug-22-03 11:41 AM
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4. I'm not sure either...

That's why I said I was ambivalent.

OTOH, wages in sweatshops are much higher than wages in agriculture (even when you take a barter economy into account); 1 dollar an hour with an 80-hour workweek is common in China, and yet it generates 4000 dollars a year in income - which translates to 20,000 a year in US terms when you take purchasing power into account, and is about 5 times higher than China's GDP per capita, which is about 800 a year unadjusted or 4000 adjusted for purchasing power.

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