Reply #34: Excuse me? No one is calling you names, however,

[Cleita]

your argument about keeping wages within the framework of a free market is a RW talking point written about in RW websites like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. Am I not allowed to point this out in the interest of facts? There are certain things that aren't commodities and decent wages and health care are two of them.

The fact is that anyone who is getting government benefits is not going to work for $5 an hour because then it becomes his livlihood not extra money. When you go to work, you lose most of your government benefits if not all of them.

Yes, I agree real estate prices are out of line and the government needs to come in and provide some low cost housing or the means to attain housing like rent control to achieve this.

Frankly, if you can't make your business work in a certain location, then by all means relocate. That doesn't mean some other business won't come along and do what you couldn't do successfully.

And I am a social Democrat that believes Capitalism can work within the framework of social programs that benefit all citizens, so no doubt you and I will find very little to agree on.