Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Unemployment & the minimum wage Message-ID: <393@pucc-i> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 15:25:04 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-i.393 Posted: Fri Aug 10 15:25:04 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 06:57:54 EDT References: <1665@inmet.UUCP> <451@tty3b.UUCP>, <388@pucc-i> <461@tty3b.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 26 Mike Kelly, defending the minimum wage, says: > I am not deciding for anyone; the Congress has passed this law and > working people are not mobilizing to oppose it. Perhaps you believe > that people should have the "freedom" to "choose" slavery, or the > "freedom" to buy unsafe products -- that's a common libertarian line. > It's not my concept of freedom. Of course working people are not mobilizing to oppose minimum wage laws; working people are precisely the ones who have a vested interest in preserving the status quo. If the "freedom to choose slavery" includes the freedom NOT to choose slavery and the freedom to define for oneself exactly what constitutes slavery, then I do consider this a freedom. I am not advocating any changes in the laws on product safety. > If there are people dying > for the "freedom" to take a job at sub-minimum wages, to me that > just reflects the utter desperation to which unemployed people have > been driven. Also an interesting contrast with Reagan's idea that > none of those people want to work anyway. Say, whose side are you on, anyway? -- Dave Seaman My hovercraft is no longer full of ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags eels (thanks to my confused cat).