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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Aug-29-05 08:36 PM
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I am opposed to minimum wage laws

I am in favor of **living** wage laws.

And don't give me any crap about the costs going up on goods and services provided by minimum wage workers. I will gladly pay the $0.0005 per dollar an increase to a living wage will cost me.

Until the least of us is at least as well off as the best of the least in the rest of the world, we are a NOT a rich country.

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Birthmark

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Mon Aug-29-05 08:38 PM
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1. I'm for a minimum AND a maximum wage law.

The maximum should be some multiple of the minimum, say 40x minimum = maximum. I don't know if it would work or not, but I get so much pleasure out of watching rich people whine. Breaks me up every time.

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blondeatlast

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Mon Aug-29-05 08:47 PM
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4. While it is fun to see them whine, they manage to always get

their way when they do it.

My son is wishing he knew their secret.

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moondust

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Mon Aug-29-05 11:44 PM
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9. I like it, too.

I think it would have real benefits for everybody. Too much of U.S. management is grossly overpaid to sit under air conditioners in padded chairs making decisions about things of which they know little or nothing because they sit under air conditioners in padded chairs making decisions about things of which they know little or nothing.

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Tace

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Mon Aug-29-05 08:40 PM
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2. I Agree

The libertarian argument against the minimum wage is "inside the box" thinking.

I won't excuse inhumanity.

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quiet.american

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Mon Aug-29-05 08:47 PM
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3. Somehow, this reminded me of a TV commercial that played when I was a kid

Edited on Mon Aug-29-05 08:48 PM by quiet.american

It was a "musical" commercial, sung by seamstresses with the lyrics:

Look for the union label
when you are buying that coat, dress or blouse.
Remember somewhere our union's sewing,
our wages going to feed the kids, and run the house.
We work hard, but who's complaining?
Thanks to the I.L.G. we're paying our way!
So always look for... the union label,
it says we're able to make it in the U.S.A.!

Now, I have shake my head that those very lyrics, especially "made in the USA" would be argued into the ground by our very own economists as quaint and unrealistic in a global economy.

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blondeatlast

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Mon Aug-29-05 08:50 PM
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5. I remember that one too; back when their were good jobs in the US.

It was within my lifetime too, but it seems as quaint an idea now as actually giving a damn about your neighbor...

Ah, the good ol' days...

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quiet.american

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Mon Aug-29-05 08:55 PM
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6. Indeed - so glad someone remembered this besides me!

I can still sing the tune like it was yesterday. I remember it was one of those commericals my young friends and I would compete to remember the words to -- "two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce- lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions-on a sesame-seed-bun" was one of the other ones.

Little did I know the Big Mac would ultimately outlive manufacturing jobs in the USA.

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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Aug-29-05 09:10 PM
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7. This is the same song Gore said his mother sang to him when was a baby

Surely you recall this. It was one of the reasons idiot son used to demonstrate Gore's supposed untruthfullness.

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quiet.american

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Mon Aug-29-05 10:09 PM
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8. Missed that one!

Edited on Mon Aug-29-05 10:09 PM by quiet.american

-- Have to admit, I just wasn't paying close attention pre-Florida debacle. I knew I was going to vote for Gore, Bush was obviously, even then, mentally challenged, and I was so used to Clinton prevailing through all the slime that I never paid attention to what the Kool-Aid drinkers had to say about Al Gore.

I just remember this commercial now with a weird sense of nostalgia for the days when I didn't have to wonder if the all the threads I'm wearing came at the expense of slave labor in a developing country.

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