<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>“Everywhere is freaks and hairies<BR>Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Tax the rich; feed the poor<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Till there are no rich no more...”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3>Interpret the above as you will.</FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Now, in the purest democrat fashion…<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Hey, I got a grand idea; let’s skip all the non-livable wage propositions and raise the minimum wage in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State> to $100.00 per worker per hour worked. Skilled, unskilled, college educated, black, white, green, position in society, blue collar, white collar, high or low intelligence, no matter. Better yet, assign everyone identical salaries. We are all equal, right?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Why shouldn’t we deserve the same pay?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does any among us think that they’re better than the other? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe our government should just handle all the finances in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>--issue us all an identical check every Monday.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Shoot, why do we even need money?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or property?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or the right to have a say in the political arena for that matter? (Socialized medicine, at this point, is a no-brainer.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Shant we all fulfill out own niche to society and one big utopia will result? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Aw, community, egalitarianism, I love it!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mind you, we need bums,
losers, drug addicts, illegal aliens, derelicts, miscreants, hippies, gypsies, and environmentalists just as we need doctors, engineers, teachers, attorneys, chemists, military personnel, law enforcement, and authors.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are all equal, we simply play our own and unique role in the societal hub. True? We are all dependant on each other for survival. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The drive to earn a bigger wage and live more affluently is no motivation to better oneself—or the country for that matter. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps the ailing Castro, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Putin</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Ill</st1:State></st1:place>, Hu, or the ghost of Lenin or Marx could help with the logistics and implementation of this socioeconomic bit of brilliance. It’s a noble idea. It will be tough in the beginning. We will have to start on a small-scale basis. The first
experimental community could be called, say, the Socialist Republic of Moscow. Next, when we have successfully worked out the bugs, we could fan out to neighboring areas, then to the entire state.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How’s the People’s Republic of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State> sound? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Catchy, huh?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apropos, I’m suddenly having a deja vu. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Not funny, you say? Remember the natural progression, according to Marx, that Nations typically take? The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> is knee deep in Socialism already.
The last step is communism…and, as we all know, it’s track record is flawless. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Performance, specialization, and supply/demand should dictate salary.. When all is said and done, no one will work for (or pay) the ridiculous. There should be no minimum wage, whatsoever.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just think, and I’m not totally a free market wing nut..<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>But, let’s say our socialist, Idahoan quixotes
have their way and manage to get the minimum wage raised to say, $8.00, the highest in the nation. Can any of you, without any other state contributions, survive on that? Doubtful. So, what then? $9.00? 10.00? 15.00 per hour? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>The answer is to eliminate the minimum wage altogether (and oust the aliens that’ll work for next-to-nothing).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Any person left who wants something for themselves or their family will do what it takes to climb the ladder. ‘Cause ‘meritocracy and the American Dream’ ain’t no riddle, man; to me, it makes good good sense. Good sense. </FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
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