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Old 07-25-2007, 04:48 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by rhertz
Let me get this straight. If an employee is a successful CEO and makes 6 figures, that is bad because it is too much? And if an employee is at the bottom rung and makes minimum wage, that is bad too because it is too little? So we need the government to mandate that everyone makes more than the old minimum wage but less than 6 figures? To be fair? To be moral?

I grew up during the cold war with the Soviet Union. As a child we had an former Soviet citizen who excaped that country come and speak to our class and explain how in the USSR, garbage men and doctors all made the same salary, and the government told you what your job is going to be. Government intervention such as minimum wage laws bring our country one step closer to that goal of "fairness for all" (socialism).

If you are counting on government laws to provide fairness, and not the natural laws of supply and demand, then you will be disappointed time and time again and will never earn a chance to become truely independent. I think that government is like crack, every addictive. Once you are high on government, it is hard to get off it.
I didn't say six figure incomes are bad, I said do you think a CEO that makes six figures is worth the pay he gets. Name one that is worth six figures. I also grwe up in the same period so try again, We aren't worried about what goes in the Soviet Union, we can't change anything there. This crack,<If you are counting on government laws to provide fairness, and not the natural laws of supply and demand, then you will be disappointed time and time again and will never earn a chance to become truely independent. I think that government is like crack, every addictive. Once you are high on government, it is hard to get off it> is just that a crack. I never said the government will make it fair, I said time and again the government is what makes the costs of living go up, that along with the big oil companies and utility companies nota wage increase that took 10 years to get. Good lord, how can people be so uncompassionate and cut throat.
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