Occupy Wall Street Fights Corporate Greed

MaceMan2091

First of all, I kinda want to point out the idiocy of these OWS demands: 20 dollar minimum wage?
Twenty-dollar minimum wage: I spoke to a liberal buddy of mine who thought this was fantastic. He said, "Yeah, more money in people s pockets - more money to spend." I looked at him with a grave stare. I started to ask him simply, where the money came from, and how it's obtained. In a naive sort-of-sense, he claimed that it was from the greedy businesses. Now, backtrack here a little bit, here's your cream of the crop liberal who claims that he's a hippie. The last time I heard hippies were peaceful people; they stuck to themselves, their own style. They wanted to be left alone by the man and live off their own small bands of communities. However, he didn't realize how the money was to be obtained; through thievery - through the code of "Robin hood". I told him that it was government you were using to take from the rich/ 1% what you claimed to be "yours." I told him you are proposing at pointing a gun to another humans head, demanding (whether or not they have earned their keep rightfully or not) that he pay everyone back for what is theirs. I pointed it out to him that it was government who even bailed out these big corporations in the name of the "people" for the "good of the economy" and "to avoid a catastrophe." Yes, government sells you off to the wolves in order to line their pockets with wool. Who is at fault: The wolves for their ravenous hunger or the shepherd who has no moral code? Which is the system more prone to abuse: the business or the government? He couldn't answer these questions critically only giving me: Government is supposed to be for the people.
I then reverted back to the real objection of a $20 minimum-wage. I told him what he thinks a business does with the money they earn. He said that they pay their workers, and then keep the rest. Basically, yes, I answered. What do you think happens when the employer now has to pay 20 dollars to each employee? They re going to cut employees, I answered. No small business can afford paying 20 dollars for every employee and remain functioning unless, they place the burden of the cost on the consumer which I pointed out to him, is the most realistic outcome. Expect prices to inflate by the rate of adjusting price wages and fluctuate above and below it, expect massive lay-offs, expect more poverty, more expensive goods. Do you want that? He said no and claimed that he didn t think of it that way.
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