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To: Willie Green
As I understand it, you have mistakingly framed the arguement (sic) as one of individual rights: capitalist's rights vs. labor rights...

No, Willie, you're missing the point. There is no "versus". All people have rights. Laborers are not just laborers. They are investors, consumers, and not infrequently, business owners themselves. Your construct of "capitalists" and "laborers" describes a mercantile, proto-capitalist society where rule of law and property rights have not yet taken hold - sort of like China, don't you think?

Corporations exist as legal entities to allow business creators to pool their resources while, yes - limiting their liability. If my business fails and I can no longer afford to hire you or pay back your investment in my business, that does not give you the right to the keys to my private car. Risk is...risky. Reward is for those who take it.

235 posted on 06/12/2005 8:33:04 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: andy58-in-nh
Your construct of "capitalists" and "laborers" describes

Whoa, whoa, whoa... hold on, now...
Don't hang that on me...
That's YOUR construct, not mine...
I am not opposed to capitalism or capitalists at all.
As a matter of fact, as a true conservative, I am myself a stockholding capitalist.
However, I DO have objections to transnational corporatism and the free traitor corporatists who wield undue influence over government policies for their own gain and to the detriment of the American People.

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."

--Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:119


247 posted on 06/12/2005 10:35:44 AM PDT by Willie Green ("Some people march to a different drummer - and some people polka")
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