The Repugs are the "Cheap-Labour" Party-

Everything they do...EVERYTHING; all of their policies, and complaints directed at the policies and ideas of the Dems, have one goal: to keep labor cheap. The thing they hated the worst during the Clinton Administration was the Power that trained workers had in the workplace during the late 90's.

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...Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like social spending or our “safety net”. Why? Because when you’re unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like – which is inevitably next to nothing. You see, they want you “over a barrel” and in a position to “work cheap or starve”.


Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why? These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you “over a barrel”.


Cheap-labor conservatives like “free trade”, NAFTA, GATT, etc. Why? Because there is a huge supply of desperately poor people in the third world, who are “over a barrel”, and will work cheap.


Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman’s right to choose. Why? Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women “over a barrel”, forcing them to work cheap.


Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like unions. Why? Because when labor “sticks together”, wages go up. That’s why workers unionize. Seems workers don’t like being “over a barrel”.


Cheap-labor conservatives constantly bray about “morality”, “virtue”, “respect for authority”, “hard work” and other “values”. Why? So they can blame your being “over a barrel” on your own “immorality”, lack of “values” and “poor choices”.


Cheap-labor conservatives encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Why? Bigotry among wage earners distracts them, and keeps them from recognizing their common interests as wage earners...

where the southern conservatives were successful at forcing people to work for ZERO dollars per hour.

hamburger doesn't mean I should support the idea that people should work at poverty wages to supply it to me. That's just a version of slavery except that it's worse than the original because I take no responsibility for them.

At least in slavery the "owner" had to have some regard for their physical well-being.

I find this "cheap labor" mentality of the radical Republicans to be revolting. Especially when they consider that they should get paid millions for their "labor".

and slavery was secondary.

The other poster is right about the Civil War analogy.

The South has always been for cheap labor and aristocracy.
All those pissed off freepers picture themselves as slave-
masters on some plantation. Idiots.

arendt

Yeah, das right, the Top Pubs are the ones who suppress the Labor Movement, they wish to keep America cheap as possible for their own gain. Its not whats best for all, its whats best for THEM.

America, wake up, you been had.

I met a bus boy, that's right, a bus boy who claimed to be a re:puke:

This guy was about 21 or 22 years old and overheard a conversation I was having at the bar. He piped up that he was "glad" to be a rethug and that * was the best pResident he'd ever seen. I quickly pointed out that he is grossly misinformed, and that unless he considers himself to be a top 1% earner, he should rethink his leanings. I also asked him how his tour of Iraq was.

He mumbled something to himself and slinked back to the kitchen.

I scratch my head over these kind of kids. I wonder if they even bother to check facts. Ignorance is rampant among the kids today. It's scary to think these are the people that will shape our policies in the future,