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From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Wage Rates: Unions, Minimum Wage Laws, and Employer Oligopoly
Message-ID: <710@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 23:51:57 EST
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Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob)
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Summary: 

In article <595@tty3b.UUCP> mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly) writes:
>The consequences are such only if capital is allowed to
>define economic fact.  Unemployment is a poltical problem, not an
>economic fact.   That it remains is evidence of lack of
>political will to solve it. 
>
>Mike Kelly

But Mike, every time somebody points out the political actions needed
to solve the unemployment problem, you get upset. The three things
usually pointed to are:

1) Getting rid of the minimum wage laws.
2) Placing labor and corporate monopolies on equal legal footing.
3) Lowering the welfare payment levels to the point where working is
	preferable to staying in the program.

Do you have a counter-proposal for political action that will solve the
unemployment problem?