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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: St_Bill who wrote (31315)	10/8/2001 8:30:56 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 82486

I would like to be a fly on the wall for such requests while the Pinkertons stand by with clubs. Sure, you always have the freedom to not work and starve. But make sure you pay the bill you owe to the company store before you think about skipping town. If you don't pay, we might take one of your family hostage. OBTW, for those not familiar with the historically efficient private charity system (prior to Social Security and many other "socialist agenda" items), it might not be coming your way if you are : a) black, b) don't speak English, c) aren't Protestant Christian, d) are a debtor The last I find truly ironic.

To: St_Bill who wrote (31315)	10/8/2001 8:31:38 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

In America, the author brought the plight of the worker to the people's attention, and we were outraged and things changed through product boycotts, etc. But, most beneficial to the American worker was Henry Ford and his new methods of manufacturing, and how it was more profitable to pay good wages.

To: St_Bill who wrote (31315)	10/8/2001 11:38:47 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Very often, if you don't want to be laughed out of your boss's office, you'll need some sort of organized force behind you. Such forces often are labor unions -- often identified with, at the outset anyway, communism. Labor unions can exist easily in a free market system. If the government helps break labor unions or doesn't allow them to function then you have less of a free market. If the labor union is powerful and effectivly has a monopoly on whatever type of labor it represents then you have the same problem you have with a company that is a monopoly producer but there is nothing inherently communist about labor unions. Tim