Child labor, product safety, environmental protection, occupational safety, minimum wage, overtime, the 40-hour week and 8-hour day, right to unionize, right to strike, the list goes on--and they've fought every single one. Why, because they don't want to pay for it.
Well, they've lost every single fight, and yet they've never been richer. But they're still fighting. They just want more. They never seem to get enough. In spite of the country's economic problems, the stock market is soaring, productivity is up, corporate profits are up, executive salaries are skyrocketing while real wages, corrected for inflation, continue to stagnate, unemployment is rising and the middle class is shrinking. More and more of the national wealth is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and they just want more.
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Slavery and health care...
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- Universal healthcare and slavery
- Slavery and health care...
- Realistically, everyone who is not self-employed is a slave. (jumping in late, here)
- I started a thread Bowser...about the Teamsters and Obamacare on Flame...
- My post is about the similarity of the people who promoted slavery and oppose universal health care.
- Well awrighty then sugar smacks...I'll be back
- Jody, it never hurts to touch base with reality from time to time
- Touch base with reality?
- Re: Jody, it never hurts to touch base with reality from time to time
- Not "government" Robert. A certain vision of it.
- Tom's post is not trite, it is extremely clever...
- Jody, it never hurts to remember what slavery actually IS.
- Jody, it never hurts to touch base with reality from time to time
- Well awrighty then sugar smacks...I'll be back
- My post is about the similarity of the people who promoted slavery and oppose universal health care.