Trump Expected to Tap Labor Secretary Who Prefers Foreign Labor to American Workers

Brietbart ^ | 12/9/16 | Julia Hahn

[central_va]

There is no such thing as a labor shortage. There is a person for every job at the correct price point. Especially low skill jobs.

I'd like to turn it around. There are wage rates that Corporatists are unwilling to pay.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

When you’ve never signed the front of a paycheck under these circumstances it’s easy to be a critic, or an author of an opinion article.

I’ve never signed the front of a paycheck, but somehow - maybe I absorbed it from uncles who ran a marginal family business, tho we only visited for a couple of weeks a year - I never looked at employers as problems but as benefactors.

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

It is a marvel to me that that quote - The very first words of Common Sense, the enormously popular published argument that drove the American Revolution - is not famous. I learned it on FR - and even then, somehow I didn’t recognize its true import.

“Writers [who] have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them” is a precise description of socialists. Which, come to think of it, is probably the reason why I wasn’t taught it in H.S; I had a teacher make a statement to me, in class, to which the above would have been the perfect riposte.

[dljordan]

“This insanity does not help us”

People who have some concerns are insane? Perhaps we don’t all share your lofty vision.

[Nifster]

The. Wry fact that you twist what I said into calling you insane proves my point. I did not say that at all

[kearnyirish2]

Whoa there; I’ve done much worse than working in fast food. What exactly are you taking issue with in my posts?