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Thread: The Obama Presidency

  1. Quote Originally Posted by Fe 26 View Post
    You're not naive enough to think we don't already have this, right?
    Do you think it's a good thing we do?

    Quote Originally Posted by Gooch View Post
    No, it doesn't. I asked what citizen is making $2 an hour, not what citizen is keeping $2 an hour. I know people who makes six to seven figures and end up keeping $2 an hour. Or less.
    I was speaking theoretically, on the topic of minimum wage lowering and/or abolishment.

  2. Diff, politically your position makes sense. Economically, it doesn't. And when things occur that don't make sense economically, we all pay for it eventually. There is no net benefit.

  3. Gooch, economically your position makes sense. Politically, it doesn't. When things that occur that don't make sense politically, we all pay for it eventually. There is no net benefit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FirstBlood View Post
    Gooch, economically your position makes sense. Politically, it doesn't. When things that occur that don't make sense politically, we all pay for it eventually. There is no net benefit.
    Sure there is. Like separating from England. Ending slavery. Giving women the right to vote. Ending a period of isolationism to fight in World War 2. Etc.

  5. BRING BACK CHILD LABOR, THE BOTTOM LINE OF MY COMPANY DEPENDS ON IT!
    my child-porn company, that is!

  6. Prohibition made political sense. It did not make economic sense.
    Quote Originally Posted by rezo
    Once, a gang of fat girls threatened to beat me up for not cottoning to their advances. As they explained it to me: "guys can usually beat up girls, but we are all fat, and there are a lot of us."

  7. #3737
    Yes, because getting rid of the medium wage means that all people will pay $2 an hour and kids will be going back in the factory.

  8. #3738
    Quote Originally Posted by Drewbacca View Post
    Prohibition made political sense.
    ONLY IF YOU ARE A GOD DAMN ASSHOLE

    PROHIBITION IS NEVER GOOD

    FUCK!

  9. Quote Originally Posted by Fe 26 View Post
    Yes, because getting rid of the medium wage means that all people will pay $2 an hour and kids will be going back in the factory.
    Yes because I was so serious with that child labor post.

    No, it's just an example of society deciding that it's willing to make a little less money in favor of not treating the bottom of the food chain like garbage.

  10. Quote Originally Posted by Fe 26 View Post
    Yes, because getting rid of the medium wage means that all people will pay $2 an hour and kids will be going back in the factory.
    Minimum, not Medium.

    And what, you trust nameless, faceless corporations to pay extra for labor because they don't agree morally with paying people two dollars an hour?

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