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To: Road Walker who wrote (407595)	8/18/2008 8:59:20 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574854

What we need to work on is raising the wages of the bottom 1/3 of the country... even if it means lowering the wages of the top 1/3. A flatter wage scale makes for a stronger country, both socially and economically. I think it is great if the lower 1/3 make more money. But it is folly to arbitrarily hand those people more money without them doing anything to earn it. This is along the same lines of JF's desire to see WMT unionized. You cannot "make the country stronger" by giving unskilled laborers more money to continue to be nonproductive persons. The reason this country has been such a success is that a person is rewarded, financially, for his drive, motivation, and ability. When you redistribute wealth as you suggest, you move toward the economies that have failed. Why would we do that? People who are in the lower 1/3 need to be motivated to move toward the upper 1/3 by achievement that adds to our economy, not by just being overcompensated, nonproductive citizens.