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Author Topic:   Netanyahu: "Seventy years ago, only Shanghai opened the door... to Jewish refugees"
ringo
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Message 16 of 33 (837679)
08-07-2018 12:00 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Phat
08-07-2018 10:19 AM


Re: Its The Money
Phat writes:
I just dont want too many eager workers who only require minimum wages.
Which is the bad part? The eagerness to work? Or the willingness to do it for less?

And our geese will blot out the sun.

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ringo
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From: frozen wasteland
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Message 25 of 33 (837744)
08-08-2018 12:19 PM
Reply to: Message 19 by Phat
08-07-2018 3:39 PM


Re: Its The Money
Phat writes:
We can't allow the wages of citizens here to suffer simply to accommodate more workers.
We always have. That's pretty much the basis of the capitalist system, isn't it?
Phat writes:
...it would be unfair to subject the laborers to such competition.
Suppose we apply the same principle to the businesses. "It would be unfair to expect Safeway to compete with Mom-and-Pop-Mart. Safeway needs high prices so lets keep the low prices out of the marketplace."

And our geese will blot out the sun.

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ringo
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From: frozen wasteland
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Message 27 of 33 (837757)
08-08-2018 4:04 PM
Reply to: Message 26 by Phat
08-08-2018 3:48 PM


Re: Its The Money
Phat writes:
Once you run out of foreigners to exploit, the only way that the system will survive is to exploit its own middle class.
You sure are obsessed with the middle class, aren't you?
Our Prime Minister, Trudeau the Second, is always taking about "the middle class and those who are working hard to join it." I've never wanted to keep up with the middle class or the Joneses.
What's the difference between the rich capitalists exploiting the middle class and the middle class exploiting the working class, immigrants, etc.?

And our geese will blot out the sun.

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ringo
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Message 29 of 33 (837760)
08-08-2018 4:19 PM
Reply to: Message 28 by Phat
08-08-2018 4:12 PM


Re: Its The Money
Phat writes:
What is the dream for a better life anyway?
I don't want a life that's better than somebody else's.
Phat writes:
Every immigrant aspires to the same level that many Americans take for granted.
I don't think that's true. A lot of them just want a place where there's less war and more of a chance to make a living.
My ancestors came to North America for land, not to become part of the middle class. And since immigration is in the neighbourhood of the topic, I have no idea whether or not they entered the country legally. I do know that they lived on both sides of the border from time to time and I doubt that they worried much about papers.

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