thinkprogress.org — Heres that sorry representative who said that the 5 day work week would "eats away at families", only to turn around and tell those living below the poverty line that they should "work longer hours". WTF??
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nick111Jan 12, 2007
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"Working harder has nothing to do with it. I live in the deep south and I am here to tell you that no people in the world work harder than broke ass southern whites and blacks. The problem is not with the workers."Typical American. Wherever you happen to live, is the place that has the hardest working people, on earth. Uh huh.
derprofiJan 12, 2007
@upsidedork "Yes, everyone does have the right to marry. But a lot of us don't have the right to marry the person we love."Haven't Jessica Alba's lawyers sent you enough warnings already??? Get over it!
palmettoJan 12, 2007
@ gonzoradioOnce again you write some idiotic crap. If families live in place where labor supply exceeds demand, who is at fault? You want the government to pay for them to live somewhere where there are insufficient jobs? That is nuts. Employers pay minimum wage because that is what two entities agree on. If Joe agrees to produce widgets for Jack for minimum wage and Jack agrees to pay Joe that minimum wage to produce widgets, who is losing?! It is obviously better to Joe to make the wage than stay at home so in my mind, Jack is providing a service.Life ain't fun and easy! Wake up and be an adult! The alternative is no job at all. Minimum wage or no job. Keep raising the minimum wage, keep forcing the big bad employers to pay ever increasing wages for ever diminishing labor, and the business/factory/whatever, decides it can do better producing its widgets in India. Who is going to stop that? Huh? Are the people better off with a minimum wage job or are they better off when the plant moves to Mexico/India/China?Lastly, the poor need to quit smoking, drinking, paying for TV and Cable before they ask for handouts... and I grew up poor.. and we did without those things.
fitchmicahJan 16, 2007
you said a lot of ridiculous stuff that didn't at all answer my points, but this is the one that disturbed me the most here:"- Lay off the crack pipe I guess. Besides, don’t affirmative action policies give institutional advantages to minorities? And just why do you have to try to divide everyone into classes?"If affirmative action policies are giving institutional advantages to minorities then why is it that what I said is true? Why is it that blacks with NO criminal record are hired less than white felons!??????"Lay off the crack pipe?!" Is that some type of joke? Are you making a joke that marginalized people need to "lay off the crack pipe" !?You need to wake up buddy. My point was not that just one of those "what ifs" occur for many institutionally oppressed people. My point was that many of them occur simultaneously. You cannot seem to understand this and you would call our oppressed people "privileged."If you would like to learn about the situation a bit more in depth, please read a Jonathan Kozol book (the one I've read is 'The Shame of the Nation'). Or how about you go watch Gummo, then tell me that the poor do not need institutional assistance.