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To: Road Walker who wrote (364093)	12/22/2007 10:51:51 PM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 1576159

The US needs more inspectors to determine if the toys (from China) are defective . All Bush cares about is spending money on the military and not protecting his own citizens. Obama's statement that "he would ban all toys from China" goes against the Principles of Free Trade and shows what an incompetent President he would be.

To: Road Walker who wrote (364093)	12/27/2007 4:37:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576159

You don't think abortion is a moral issue with these folks? You don't read very well do you. I said, and you quoted "I didn't say it wasn't considered an issue of morality" Of course its a moral issue, but its primarily in their minds a moral issue of life or death. Its immoral because they think its the killing of an innocent human. as I said "the opposition isn't 'that's immoral so it should be illegal', but rather 'that's killing an innocent person so it should be illegal'", the killing of innocent humans is the main moral issue the pro-life argument is concerned with. Compensation is so top heavy at most companies there is plenty of room for adjustment. "Top heavy" is irrelevant. People of minimal skill will be employed when its profitable to do so. If the CEO makes a lot of money that doesn't make it more profitable to employee people at minimum wage. The CEO's salary gets set by the market for CEOs not the market for minimum wage employees. Also even if you could easily shift this compensation to the lowest paid employees, it wouldn't be enough in industries that employee many minimum wage workers, to pay the extra salary to meet the standards of most "living wage" proposals. Its basic economics. Make hiring minimally skilled workers much more expensive, and you get less employment of minimally skilled workers. That effect occurs at the margin for any minimum wage increase, but for small increases it may be swamped by other concerns, or if the legal requirement is lower than the market clearing wage the effect may be negligible. However a large increase to well past the market clearing wages will cause a lot of people to lose their jobs. Regulation enforcement and funding has decreased significantly during the Bush administration. No it hasn't, esp. the funding part.