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Originally Posted by CampHost
I'm all about that...
Pay people 22.00 a hour and welfare, foot stamps, medicaid, etc. will be damn near a thing of the past. Folks that work would then do MUCH better than folks that sit on large ASSes. Right now it don't pay for poor people to work.
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That's a great point. The GOP HATES "social programs." But they don't want anybody who accesses those programs to make more money, either. It's kind of like the religious anti-abortion nuts - they want to ban abortion, but they don't support sex education or contraception, either.
They'll give you all sorts of high-minded reasons why they don't want the minimum wage raised. The bottom line, though, is they don't fucking care. That's a pretty ugly thing to admit, and "I don't give a fuck about anyone but myself" is a poor argument, so they'll lecture you on "equilibrium" or give sky-will-fall predictions of inflationary doom if the poor bastards working at WalMart make a few more bucks an hour. If you're lucky, they'll spare you the self-aggrandizing stories about how everything they have is the result of their hard work alone. In the end, it's the old "I got mine, screw you" mindset.
