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To: Pelham
In this case Gingrich and Perry are Heretics, guilty of accusing Capitalism of being capable of possessing a sin nature. This, of course, is an outrage and an absurdity. To quote the great Rushbo himself, “Fairness? What is fairness?”.

You sound like one of those crazy bible thumping religious fanatics who think that business owners should be hobbled by junk like paying their workers a "fair wage." A "fair wage" is however little the business owner can pay you and still get your lazy non-business owning rear end to show up. If you were worth anything, you own the business instead of working for it.

70 posted on 01/13/2012 7:11:43 PM PST by Yashcheritsiy
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Well, it may be Bible-thumping, but even thousands of years ago, in both Judaism and then in Christianity, employers were being urged to pay their employees an honest wage. What’s wrong with that?

But this has nothing to do with “fairness,” which now means that the government or some superior force has got to come in and equalize results. Most people don’t want to be the head of the company; it’s a lot of work, and most people just want to do their jobs and go home to their families. But the person who is the head of the company could not be the head of the company without them, and in fact there wouldn’t even be a company without them. Therefore he has the obligation to compensate them accordingly, which has nothing to do with fairness but is a simple matter of paying for a service.

When employers want to get the service without paying for it, or by taking so much for themselves that there is nothing left to pay the people who do the work, we have broken the social contract. That was what led to the rise of unions.


77 posted on 01/13/2012 7:19:57 PM PST by livius
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Damn, you’ve discovered my hidden identity. There’s no keeping anything from a genius of your abilities. I am humbled.


88 posted on 01/13/2012 7:28:55 PM PST by Pelham (Islam. The original Evil Empire)
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