Why Ask GOP Candidates About Raising The Minimum Wage? They Want To Abolish It.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The Scranton PA public servants were just reduced in wages to $7.25 an hour. What would they get if there was no minimum wage? I wonder if the public there supports that move for those overpaid and coddled public employees.

[DBoon]

1. I think some would abolish wages altogether

and bring back slavery

[Initech]

4. More profit hoarding - less wages. That is what they want.

[TheKentuckian]

5. Nah, slaves are too much responsibility and generate bothersome costs

The wage slave model is much easier and profitable. Build up a substantial labor surplus, eliminate labor laws and wage basements, pay pennies, use em up and pitch them out at first sign of let down in production, and by all means let the peasants figure out how to work out food, shelter, and clothing themselves on their own dime (if they can pile up that many pennies).

Hell, you might even be able to recoup some of those wages by charging rent for sleeping at workstations after hours if the workers aren't "resourceful" enough to pay a day rental.

Slavery is outmoded and inefficient, even the FOXCONN dorms are too much of an investment of resource better piled onto dragon like hordes and just show that their isn't the right level of ambient poverty or too many opportunities. If you are squeezing hard enough there should be a line of the "small people" hoping for a chance to work 24/7.

[lumpy]

2. The GOP hard line Buck worshipers want to do away with everything has been

a benefit for the work force who ultimately make it possible for corporate ownnership to skim the cream. We have to contend with the new US aristocracy wanting control of every facit of our lives.
So reminiscent of 19th century England.

[RC]

3. I wonder if the Mayor and City Counsel took a pay cut?