"The principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals."

-William Blum

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/20/AR2006012001971.html

Give them too much and someone is bound to start business! 'scrape-Gates' 'leftover-Jobs' 'tasty-Pages' 'Brin's-bins'

I owned a business and I worked my a$$ of getting it to a point I could hire someone.

When I looked at what all I'd have had to pay out, I decided to just cut back and continue on my own.

If a dude can make triple more and put 3 times more people to work, great!

Since when did making good money, honestly, become a sin?

When my husband and I owned stores and ran businesses we did as much as we could ourselves too...We waited until we could afford to pay employees a fair and decent wage before we did any hiring...We only laid one employee off. If she'd been more "productive" we probably would have kept her on the payroll even though we were going through some "lean times."...But she started sitting around a lot and did as little as possible. (Unless we directly asked her to do "more.").. Plus she had a grandiose sense of entitlement and felt that she deserved a "raise" even though she was doing less and less "actual work!"...We liked her in other ways and it felt sad to say "goodbye" and let her go...But she just didn't "fit-in" and hold her "weight." So it was "good riddance" and we took over her duties ourselves until business picked-up at our store.

Many (mostly leftists ?) people think that one can never earn lots honestly. I have seen good employers myself. But they are mostly the first generation in business, new or small ones.
I think the biggest curse of our times is the advertisements !
Also in future, oppresors of common people will take the form of big multinationals.

Making good honest money by running a business is not a sin.

But raping the working class through greed is morally reprehensible.

Like bailed out banks?

Like the greed that got the banks into trouble in the first place.
The bank bailout was to keep this country from getting into worse trouble. Wether you know it or not this world runs on credit.

Back in the old days a lot of people opened stores and restaurants and other businesses in their hometowns and did "well."...But through the years some corporations grew larger and larger and opened up their "chain outlets" in cities and towns across the nation...This made it hard for "mom and pop" businesses to compete and stay open...Today people have a tendency to go for "name brand" stores and restaurants. Or "one-stop shopping" in big and expanded chain stores...The free enterprise system is still open to everyone but it's not easy to compete against the big chains and their "monopolies."...If someone manufactures a popular product and wants to "go public" (and sell stocks and shares in their company) they are going to be pushed (and pressured) to produce their products overseas...The "Wall Street bosses" will downgrade their stock if they don't go along...Everything is about profit and "pleasing" and appeasing the shareholders. (And to hell with all the jobs that are lost when plants shut-down in the USA!)...Even worse: Our pensions and retirement funds are tied to corporations and the stock market today. This wasn't always the case. Companies used to provide pensions for longtime employees...But nowadays there are few longtime employees and no job is secure or "for sure." Anyone is subject to be "cut" or laid-off at any time.

Boeing, even in the 70's, had a bad habit of laying folks off that were near retirement so, they didn't have to pay full benis.

Mom and Pop can compete in the rest. business. They can open a roach coach and park in any lot they can get permission.

They are thriving pretty well here.



Many go to the store and get their stock with their EBT card. Sell in the evening and take the leftovers home to the kids and other families they live with.

Big government sucks. You need a permit just to have a garage sale.

Yes it does.. And the more money it takes the larger it grows and the larger it grows the more misery it distributes..

The taxes the government collects that supports entitlements are also trickle down economics..

But since it's the government doing it.. The proletariat cheers..

nice

I like this one too

"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members -- the last, the least, the littlest."
~Cardinal Roger Mahony,