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To: kesg
. I want the freedom to hire anyone I want on any terms that we can agree on. If some guy wants to work for me for $1 an hour, I should be able to hire him. It's nobody's business except his and mine. This is part of what freedom actually means.

Yeah, there we go. You are an employer, and your "freedom" actually means the freedom to impose Hobson's choice on your employees. It means your freedom to hire and fire and change their wages up or down at will, to get his work for next-to-nothing and call it a square deal.

But let the other guy try to bring in a labor union, and you'll scream bloody murder -- or you'll just exercise your "freedom" to fire him on the spot for being so uppity as actually to try to negotiate from a position other than flat on his belly.

Guys like you give capitalism a bad name.

618 posted on 04/01/2006 2:13:20 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus
Yeah, there we go. You are an employer, and your "freedom" actually means the freedom to impose Hobson's choice on your employees. It means your freedom to hire and fire and change their wages up or down at will, to get his work for next-to-nothing and call it a square deal.

Nonsense. If I offer him wages that are too low, he'll simply go somewhere else. It is a two-way street. What's "fair" is what the employee and employee agree to do. It's called the law of supply and demand.

623 posted on 04/01/2006 5:24:14 PM PST by kesg
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