Reply With QuoteOriginally posted by JakeAisA
Dues have nothing to do with it. Not only is it none of your business, but you shouldn't care about it. I have paid my dues, my family has paid it's dues. But who cares? If I hadn't, my success wouldn't be at your expense.[QUOTE]
Your success does not bother me in any way... It's your insensitivity to the plight of Americans whose jobs have been, or about to be exported. Getting through SC is tough while delivering pizzas...wasn't trying to imply that you haven't earned your success. I'm a firm believer that we're all broke on different levels and we all believe that we work hard for our money. But, until you've been desperate to work, without prospects, you should reconsider the ease at which you're willing to write-off the jobs of others.
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Wealthy people didn't get wealthy at the poor's expense. Conversely, the poor aren't poor because wealthy people "took" anything away from them. What you have in life is your responsible to go out and earn--from your freinds and family and in terms of your carreer. [QUOTE]
Okay- this is interesting because it denies that there is a limited amount of money in circulation. It also kind of denies that an employer makes money by reselling the services of the employee at a profit. Everybody benefits as long as they're being compensated fairly, but human nature and business sense makes us all "economists" at whatever level we're at.... paying the lowest price we can on our purchases while getting the most we can from clients. As a businessman that gets to pimp his own services daily, you get to set your pricing as high as your competition will allow. You are a direct seller of your services and are not subject to being sold short by an employer who , instinctively, feathers his own nest first!
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I drive a dodge truck...but that's none of your business. I'm in the process of buying a Cadilac Deville, but that's none of you business. [QUOTE]
If I ever asked you to show me real estate, we would be done if you offerred to drive me in a foriegn car! It's good that you buy American though you're right that it's not my business!
[QUOTE]I've worked for $5 bucks an hour and I've delievered pizza's to help my family put me through school...but that's none of your business. My customers don't ask me these things before they pay me...they ask me what I can do for them. Why? Becuase it doesn't matter to them and it shouldn't. What matters is your value to others in terms of what you can trade with them, products, services or labor. [QUOTE]
I've done brakes and front suspension work for less than $3 an hour but I'm not bitching about it because that is all the job paid and I was working there freely. It was for the auto center of a large retailer who was not fairly sharing the proceeds of my labor with me. The value of my services FAR exceeded my compensation! As soon as I was able to break the shackles, I was outta there!
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Your logic flies in the face of everything that is American. Like I said in another post--we embargo countries like Iraq and Cuba to destroy thier economies, what makes anybody think a self-imposed embargo of America would all of a sudden be a beneficial thing to do?
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Iraq has oil, so everybody tunneled around the embargo (us included) and traded with them anyway! What we have here that the rest of the world wants is affluent consumers with money to spend on goods...thanks to wages and lifestyle that are way above world standards! Logic would dictate that protecting the earnings and living standards of US citizens would be essential to preserving our status as the place where every other country wants to dump their cheap crap. I believe that we could pretty much cut the rest of the world loose and we would prosper and do without NOTHING! We would have to pay more for US made goods, but we'd be offering our fellow citizens meaningful employment, instead of bitching about handouts and high taxes!
