Thread: Democrats radio: Waitress lauds higher wage
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Old 08-20-2007, 04:57 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ClassWarrior View Post
Well, what do you expect from a right wing party like the Democrats? They are just as right wing as the republicans and bought and paid for by big business. Big business has no interest in making a just and decent society.
You are right, big business has no interest in making a just and decent society, there interest lies in making a profit. This has been a well documented fact ever since Adam Smith uttered those infamous words:

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their own advantages.
Why should this be shocking or surprising to anyone. What is shocking and surprising to me is why do so many people who have families need to survive off of minimum wage jobs??? What are they doing wrong, what has caused them to be in the circumstance they are in? Did the practice unsafe sex and have children before they were ready to pay for them? Did they drop out of school before getting a diploma that has now left them in the dead end world they lead? What led to the life they are living?

At some point government must realize that you cannot help everyone no matter how hard you try. Unfortunately there are some that will continue to make one bad choice after another and lead their life into disaster. It is through charity and compassion of those who do work, that we offer them a hand out or seek to help them in their plight. As long as government compels us to pay for them, you will have people that resent them.....until finally government cuts them from the coffers, or those of us who work see that it is easier to do nothing and be taken care of by others. If the latter is the case, how long before you have no one working??

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