Jeelikeyou (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

WATS A TEASER

stang661 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Sam was all about putting the mom and pops out of business. To be fair the mom and pops I dealt with never seem to care about the customer. It's like my grandfather said, the local tire place here will screw you & your car up and claim they didn't. Might as well go to wal-mart and pay less for them to screw it up. Maybe they'll fix the problem but the local will not.Sam was all about made in the USA. He may have brought in all that Communist Chinese crap too. USA just a marketing scam.

h30002290 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Just give the subject a google. There is plenty of information on this. One could also take it a step further and personally ask those who are employed (non-owners) by these small businesses if they have health insurance. Their answer will be overwhelmingly no.

h30002290 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"Some of the most prominent small-business advocacy groups, including the National Small Business Association (.pdf) and the National Federation of Independent Businesses, have protested minimum-wage increases, saying they do economic harm to small firms. A common response from minimum-wage supporters is that higher wages mean more money in the hands of consumers, which in turn means more consumer spending and thus more revenue for employers." usanews

nottafanboy6954 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

See it was you yourself that brought human rights violation into question, Ford gets their parts from Mexico, how well do you think those workers are treated?

nottafanboy6954 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

In a nut shell you want to business A,B, and C to thrive BUT you want each one of them to be regulated on their success? If one is too successful then we should regulate it? Then we bring pay into question, Walmart pays everyone differently based on their experiance and their particular job and every single job pays more then minimum wage. Statistically Walmart pays its employees more then any other retail chain.

nottafanboy6954 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

An unskilled laborer, with absolutely no collage experience should not be making over 17$ an hour just because their daddy got them in.

DominoGray (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You're muddling the argument and contradicting yourself. GM is unionized. It's employees are treated and paid well. The only argument I see here is that it does business with companies that aren't unionized and thusly aren't paid well.Once again, you only bring attention that America needs more unionization and overall oversight than less. "The value of a product is worth whatever its purchaser will pay for it" Same thinking goes for workSo ensure that no one works for less than right

DominoGray (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I am not talking about some Communist autocracy here. I'm talking about rational mixed economy. American has been filled this paranoia that associates any kind of leftism with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.For examples of functional, happy mixed economies look at : France, Canada, Ireland, Britian, Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden.Socialism doesn't equal dictaorship. They're unrelated. Socialism is an economic principle. Unions are both economically sound and morally.

nottafanboy6954 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

But this is exactly where socialism and communism fails, man kind has in every practice of such, become entirely totalitarian. I would rather live in a system based on exploitation by proxy then an entire structural system based on one particular indidual doing such. Even public unions need a leader, and as we all know "absolute power corrupts absolutely".