Enjoying your day off? Have you thanked a liberal yet?

Question

For that and weekends, 8-hour workday, child labor laws, workplace safety laws, minimum wage, and employee healthcare. You don't think that corporations just gave that stuff to us out of the goodness of their hearts did you? We had to fight for it. See, we're not ALL bad.

Answer 1

No, I havent but, Thank you liberal...for my last year of unemployment! 365 days off! whoo hoo! Soon I'll qualify for Government assistant programs and I'll really have it made!

Answer 2

That's why I'm one. We fight for the good things

Answer 3

Government intervention in business is bad not only for the business, but the consumer, and the worker.

Bottom line is business in a free market (which we do not have) changes according to customer and worker demand. If a business is terrible for its workers, it looses workers, looses quality workers, and therefore looses sales, making room for another business to take its place. If it is really bad, the business collapses as it is not profitable. This makes businesses compete, better workers, better benefits, better value for customers, better profits, beneficial for all involved. Its like links in a chain.

Minimum wage makes sure those not worth minimum wage remain unemployed. It also ureasonably inflates prices. A simple mind says more pay = good, but will not take  the time to hear if that job is worth that pay, or if someone was willing to do that job for that pay, or if a job was removed and combined with another to make up for the pay.

There are plenty of people who now make minimum wage for hard jobs. They may gladly take a below minimum wage job if it is easier.

Nobody forces you to work in america. Rough jobs, easy jobs, high paying jobs, low paying jobs, skilled & unskilled, businesses and workers range from both ends.

I recomend if you wish to discuss this further, go to an economic forum, where users can interact with you, and explain more in depth. Or atleast post each point by itself.

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Lets say you have a house cleaner. She cleans your messy home 7 days a week, at $100 per day. She has the job, and she wants to keep the job. She is happy with the pay.

I come in and say you must not allow her to work more than 5 days a week. I also say you must now pay her $150 per day. Now I tell you that she cannot clean your toilet, or sink. Now I tell  you that you must get her medical coverage. Now, it looks like you dont want to keep her for her services. You think they are not worth it. Now she is out a job, because she is not worth the pay.

If your toilet was that much of a work threat to her in the first place, or that daily work was too hard, or the pay was too low, do you think she is not inteligent enough to quit and find a job she thought a better trade for her labor?

Is that a free market?

Answer 4

I am a liberal so i will thank myself!

Answer 5

no work- no pay. thank you so very much. if our company goes under, I may owe you more thanks. very insensetive

Answer 6

No.  Most so called "liberals' responsible for that are dead and long gone.  Liberals today have nothing to do with that.  Liberals today are more worried with leaving our borders open to s***w the American worker and turn our country into a third world h**l hole.  Maybe you should thank conservatives for establishing a market economy that has produced the most largest prosperous class of people in the history of civilization.

Answer 7

haha, yeah.

:)  

Answer 8

Yes, I agree, and I think the next thing is to give extravagant bonuses to people who work in commerce who deserve it. High performers, I mean. High performers are the bread and butter of any business.

Answer 9

Im sure they haven't ... they are too busy being angry and kicking puppies  

Answer 10

The liberals then and the liberals now are not the same.