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To: Young Scholar
Well, it's nice to know exactly whom the statists are in our midst here.

Thank you for the illustration.

BTW, just curiosity, mind: have YOU, personally, ever opened or run a company, any company (other than, say, a lemonade stand as a child)?

I don't accept the premise, at all. Evidently, you do. Excahnging one's labour for a wage in no effing way grants the employer any rights at all over one's otherwise lawful behaviour, specifically excepting general good order and productivity (sleeping on the job, clearly a no-no, for example), ESPECIALLY on one's own time.

If an employer should say, before the fact of employment, that you, the employee, can't do this and that and that and the other thing, whether verbally or by contract, then the (would-be) employee has no complaint. Accept the terms of offer, or don't take the position. THIS is the private company's privilege.

WHEN, however, such incursions occur after date of employment and without prior specification, the employer is in a purely false position, your nanny-statist protestations to the contrary.

Again, thanks so much (no sarcasm, not a bit) for letting us all know that you, personally, are (evidently) a disciple of Trotsky. This was one of his favoured hobby-horses to beat before EVEN the Sovs made him flee for his life.

Given his views, even his subsequent axe-murder doesn't seem too severe in retrospect.

141 posted on 11/29/2006 10:02:27 PM PST by SAJ (debunking myths about markets and prices on FR since 2001)
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To: SAJ

Between the two of us, the only statist is the one arguing that companies should be prevented (by the government, presumably) from setting and changing the conditions under which they continue to employ a person.

You are also clearly more than a little unstable.


145 posted on 11/29/2006 10:13:04 PM PST by Young Scholar
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