Then there are a lot of degenerate folks around. You see, when a person applies for government aid they are compelled to seek and find work.......
No, they're actually NOT. This is where you are just fundamentally not correct in your viewpoint, and it's relatively simple to understand. When a person applies for government aid, they are compelled to seek and find government aid,
not seek and find work. If they were compelled to seek and find work, they would be looking for a job and not applying for aid. Government aid is sought when you can't find work, and you become compelled to seek aid instead.
There are jobs that pay so little the people can't even afford medical care.
One of the reasons jobs pay little, is because companies have to be frugal on labor costs because the expenses associated with labor have to be paid by the employer, things like vacations and holiday pay, family leave and other things the government says they have to pay for... etc. etc. etc. If the company didn't have to pay for so much of this stuff, they could probably afford to pay a good bit more for labor.
Medical care is available for people who can't afford it, we've had Medicaid for a very long time in America.
Like the folks at Wal-Mart. However, a person can not turn down a job or they'll lose government aid like welfare, etc. In other words they become little more than slaves.
Well, this is your plan, so why is it fucked up? Is it fair for us to pay some people welfare who work at Wal-mart, but other people who work there, don't get welfare? Is it okay for certain people to be slaves and certain other people to get a government check to supplement their slave wages? Maybe we should have Wal-mart pay for everyone's welfare too? Oh but wait... you want us to have better paying jobs, right? Well, we can't run up the cost of labor to business and expect that. So what we have to do with welfare is, once you get the Wal-mart job, you don't get to keep drawing welfare.
Now what we are seeing with your plan (Obama's), is a company like Hobby Lobby or Hostess, closing the doors and eliminating thousands of jobs, because they can't afford what the government is laying on them. That's your concept at work. Are these newly-laid-off people who will now have to draw welfare, better off? Did you plan to force business to pay for more shit, actually work to the benefit of the employees, or not? Looks to me like it was an abject failure, and most rational business people could have told you this would happen. But the thing is, we're dealing with people who spent most of their college days stoned, discussing Marxist Socialist philosophy with the Choom Gang. When you are high and wax philosophical, you can sometimes forget that a philosophy class isn't real life, and things operate very differently in reality, than in a philosophy class.
There's an old saying. "A job worth doing is worth doing right." I have another saying. A job worth doing is worth being adequately compensated for.
Again, being adequately compensated comes from the employer having the resources to do this. Excessive government mandates eat that money up, so they can't really offer more, it's not there. You think it is there, because the Choom Gang says it can come from profits, but business doesn't work like that, and it closes it's doors, leaving your employees with no job. There's an old saying, ANY job is better than NO job.
Free trade means the average worker in manufacturing will be paid less than previous as they are competing with lower paid people around the world. That's fine. The problem is while the workers get paid less management gets paid more. We see that every day. Management gets a raise while they lay off people. Where is the discussion concerning that?
I don't know, back when Bush I signed NAFTA, you Democraps were 100% behind that, because it was something Reagan opposed. And when Clinton signed GATT, you were all for that too. Back then, there wasn't message boarding, but I said that I was opposed to both because they would ultimately cost American jobs... but nooooo.... that wasn't going to happen! Guess who was right?
Regarding eliminating the minimum wage you wrote, I think it would be, it doesn't really serve much purpose, other than to give Democrats a talking point and "issue" to parade around with, while they pretend to be caring for the poor. It certainly hasn't lifted anyone out of poverty over the past 40 years.
It may not have lifted people out of poverty but it brought them closer to getting out. Again, go back to what I wrote about government aid and employment. If a single person gets, say, $600/mth on welfare (Just a guess. The rates vary by State) then they would be obliged to take a job paying $700/mth. That would be equivalent to earning less than $4.50/hr for a 40 hour week. Do you think anyone should have to work for $4.50 an hour?
No it didn't bring them closer. And if Republicans had implemented programs for over 40 years, to 'bring people closer' to getting out of poverty, would you accept that was doing enough or demand something different happen? I don't need to hear your idiotic examples using actual numbers and stuff, because they don't have relevance to the principles we're discussing here. My personal view is, there shouldn't be any such thing as "welfare" from the federal government. Anything the government gives, should be earned. No person should be singled out and given something just because of who they are, with the possible exception of disabled veterans or indigent handicapped people, and orphans. Everyone else, should have to earn what they receive from federal tax dollars. Business should be allowed to pay whatever wage the market will bear, and potential employees should be able to accept whatever wage they are willing to work for, and the government should keep it's nose completely out of it.
The slave argument is getting old. How that relates to abortion doesn't make any sense. The rights of the woman are protected. The idea is to protect the rights of people.
Well, sorry it's getting old. It relates to abortion because an unborn fetus is not considered a human being, like the slave. The right of the woman is protected like the right of the property owner of the slave was protected. Yes, the idea is to protect the rights of the people. Doesn't the unborn human being's right to life, trump the female's right to privacy?