Reply #38: About labor [View All]

[Deja Q]

"If someone's taking my money, the product of my labor, they're telling me what I can and can't do with my body and my mind. And I would warn against the belief that it's only the family values crowd that tries to maintain a nanny state. FDR is an icon to progressives / liberals. He was the king of America's nanny state. Were he alive today, I've no doubt he would champion gay rights, and probably would want a liberal immigration policy. But he'd be strengthening his nanny state all the while. "


How about the workers who get paid minimum wage by Company X or Corporation Y? Do they not have a say, especially if they are trying to raise families?

Besides, the government bailing out immoral lending firms (while, so far, by and large ignoring those who took the loans) -- is that not part of a nanny state too? Definition is a many splintered thing.