Current Events > Minimum wage largely unenforced in US

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Mike_Stanton posted...

How was Greece undermined by the US, Britain, or France specifically? Also, how was Venezuela undermined by those countries?

I'm willing to educate you to some extent if you're willing to ackowledge that that's what I'm doing.

so: will you ackowledge that I am not arguing with you, but educating you?

Even if you do want to blame those other countries, if socialism is so great then why can't its adherents ever overcome the influence of less socialist nations, hmmmm?

because the US is the largest military power in the world, so it's very easy for them to impose their will on others. not sure exactly where France and Britain rank, but they're also very powerful

Good. So socialism itself was at least partially responsible.

this conclusion does not follow from anything that I previously said. you had arrived at the conclusion that socialism was responsible for the collapse of all those countries, before I even said anything. If you hadn't, you would not have arrived there this time

It's almost as if giving people things regardless of the work they do is counterproductive. It's almost as if governments can't be trusted to redistribute wealth or have centrally planned economies.

it's almost as though you don't know what you're talking about
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Mike_Stanton posted...

An economist isn't an authority on economics? Okay, thanks for telling me that...

Actual economists support socialist elements to an economy because we're in a mixed economic system. I don't know why YOU are pretending to be an authority in economics.
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Of course
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@Mike_Stanton I would love to hear back from you
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averagejoel posted...

@Mike_Stanton I would love to hear back from you

I'm gonna doubt you will, but maybe he'll surprise me. Guy hadn't posted for months.. that is until his main got suspended.
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Of course
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Of course
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How is this topic still here
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averagejoel posted...

because the US is the largest military power in the world, so it's very easy for them to impose their will on others. not sure exactly where France and Britain rank, but they're also very powerful

Soviet Russia tried to become a large military power. Then they fell apart.

averagejoel posted...

this conclusion does not follow from anything that I previously said. you had arrived at the conclusion that socialism was responsible for the collapse of all those countries, before I even said anything. If you hadn't, you would not have arrived there this time

I'm sure socialism just had some bad luck.
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Mike_Stanton posted...

Soviet Russia tried to become a large military power. Then they fell apart.

cool. this is completely irrelevant to what I was saying.

Mike_Stanton posted...

I'm sure socialism just had some bad luck

as I said earlier:

I'm willing to educate you to some extent if you're willing to ackowledge that that's what I'm doing.

so: will you ackowledge that I am not arguing with you, but educating you?
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DarkChozoGhost posted...

Antifar posted...

Alexandre Chemla

Should be held in prison with a $260,000 bond

2.6 million. Through a bondsman, its be 260,000.

averagejoel posted...

Romes187 posted...

If employers aren't paying their employees what was promised, then they should be heavily fined

yeah. something along the lines of a significant amount of time in prison, state seizure of their business, and their dominant hand

So long as inc. and LLC are legally "entities", and can be poofed in and out of existence pretty much at will, good luck.

SK8T3R215 posted...

Lmfao using the ignore list

averagejoel adds anyone who disagrees with his adolescent Marxist propaganda to the ignore list.
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