Posted on 06/04/2002 10:04:06 AM PDT by Vladiator
"...View of Human Nature. Utopian Socialists, like later advocates of Socialism, condemned the inequalities and injustices they saw as prevailing under the system of private ownership of the means of production and distribution and advocated various forms of social ownership. In general they contended that man was by nature good and capable of developing to the highest perfection. However, misery and suffering was seen on every side. The reason for this was that man had tampered with the original, perfect constitution of human society, which in essence provided for the common ownership of property. Such devices as private property had destroyed society's natural harmony."
"Mankind thus had a duty of reconstituting the "natural order" among men. This could be done through the spread of knowledge concerning the laws underlying the "natural order," as the acquiring of such knowledge would assure its practical application. Mankind, when it once knew the truth, would naturally assist in making need changes. The new doctrines should be preached to the rich, who also suffered from the existing order, as well as to the poor. Indeed, special effort should be made to convert the rich and powerful, for their conversion would help materially in reaching the masses."
copyright Collier's Encyclopedia 1988 page 121 "Socialism"
Or...you can hire people off the street, hire illegals, and pay them minimum wage with no benefits and make a gazillion dollars.......for a brief period.
There is a vast difference between capitalism and outright greed. Greed abounds in this country, now that we have thrown open the gates to illegals who are willing to accept minimum wage..with no benefits. I have never belonged to a union....but I will never eat another Hershey bar. To hell with em'.
I come from N.J., and I'm here to tell you that the union lie regarding how you'll live without them is nothing but crap. The idea that people who live in states not run by unions are in some way inferior is nothing but union propaganda. Rapsux
I'm gonna buy whole boxes of Hershey's product as gifts for the forseeable future.
Hershey's will be fine. Lots of folks were waiting to get those unionists cushy jobs anyway. Let the union folks start their own chocolate business.
Couldn't agree more. I was operations manager of a plant where wages increased 25% at the same time profits increased 16%. Quality increased dramatically at the same time. All "As a result of making your employees feel a part of the business".
"Insurance" has become synonomous with "let somebody else pay" which, of course, isn't feasible if the plan is to remain solvent.
In fact, medical insurance firms place a massive, bureaucratic financial burden on health care costs, despite so-called health care savings strategies such as HMOs, etc. etc.
I'd wager that a very small fraction of medical insurance premiums are used to pay for actual medical care.
I certainly don't favor the communized Hillary Health Care plan, that's just more of the "let somebody else pay" strategy ("somebody else" being We the Taxpayers).
I wonder what would happen at the opposite extreme: BAN any and all forms of health insurance!
Unions = thugs and/or socialists.
Pretty big assumption there, pal. Most polls show GOP support among rank-and-file organized labor to be equal to or greater than the population as a whole. I agree that many socialists have exploited unions for many years, and that those same monsters have used heavy-handed tactics (crime) to further their cause. Most union members are highly productive members of society that love the USA. They vote GOP as much as anyone. Their leadership is in lockstep with Democrats, because the management they bargain against uses GOP statists to tip the scales in favor of management. If the GOP were not reflexively anti-labor, labor would not be reflexively anti-GOP.
If we are going to paint with a broad brush, given that the incarceration rate of blacks dwarfs that of union members engaging in union activity, and that blacks vote Dem in excess of 92% while union members barely crack 50%, why don't you start generalizing about the habits and motives of North American blacks?
You don't because you know that is wrong.
At least not for the care of the person being billed.
It has been routine in this country since the 50's to overcharge
those with insurance. It is done to pay for charity work. The
government knows this, but it lets wealth be transferred
without raising your taxes.
Care to guess what it costs California Insurance Customers to
care for the illegals? Major state insurance group, STRS
raised rates 25% this year.
What you have a right to do is seek employment- but you don't have a right to a job. Your employer has the last word in how much you get paid- bottom line. You don't like it, nobody is forcing you to work there. It's called freedom. You don't like freedom- support labor unions. Socialism/communism after all is just a nation wide labor union. If you support unions and you call yourself a conservative- you're a leftist and just don't know it.
I'd be one of those scab workers if I were unemployed and lived in that area and I'd gladly take a Louisville slugger to work with me if the union thugs wanted to get ugly- hell, I'll fight for my job too and it would be a pleasure to beat on the heads of people that believe in union principles. Unions are evil.
We have to compete with the likes of China and Mexico who have no EPA, no OSHA, no MINIMUM WAGE, no Social Security, no CALPERS, no Medicare, and we pay $6.75 per hour or more(here in Kalifornia) for workers who can't read or write, much less think.
Why aren't our Congresscritters working on getting us more competitive in the 'global' market, instead of less.
'Tort Reform' would be a big help to American industry and productivity. Think the American Bar Association(ABA) will cut off their 'gravy'? No more than accountants will end the IRS or teachers will end tenure, IMHO. America loses!!!
You speak the truth. I don't agree, however, with the phrasing. If 'labor management' weren't so reflexively 'dictatorial and anti-business'; then, business would not be so reflexively anti-labor.
IMHO, the 'BIG' problems(or the BIG problem solvers) lie with top management of both the 'white collar and blue collar' workers.
Socialists' major mistake is assuming that humans are nice people.
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