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TheMastersNemesis

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Sun Apr 15, 2012, 06:58 PM Apr 2012

A Free Market Economy Is Code About Working For Free [View all]

Even working for free is not enough for free marketers. They want workers to pay them for working. Though I do not know how that idea would work.

We have pretty much a $10 an hour economy and the GOP types think that that is too much. The plan to make workers so desperate that they will work for any wage. The mantra about a starving wage is better than no wage seems to be making the circuit now. And it comes from RW'ingers. That crap is despicably dishonest and immoral and actually criminal.

We are in the age of free tryouts and free internships. We have to be better than that in American. But it looks like we aren't.
I don't understand how Republican voters can support and end to labor laws and the minimum wage when I know for a fact that most of them are workers too. How can someone be that stupid or crazy.

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When they say "free market" they mean "freedom for capital" annabanana Apr 2012 #1
In essence we already EC Apr 2012 #2
.. mdmc Apr 2012 #3
well... we did bail them out fascisthunter Apr 2012 #4
Bingo Populist_Prole Apr 2012 #5
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