Wal-Mart opposes living wage initiative

[JRon]

It is the job of companies to pay you for what your work is worth... which is determined by the free market.

A days pay for a days work.[/b]

A complete reliance in free market resulted in a little thing call stagflation a few years back.

No one here thinks we should get away from the market system (at least I don't), but that doesn't mean we can't pay workers with families the pay that their work is REALLY worth.

If you think our economy can survive without menial labor then you are out of your damn mind. We depend on their services, and should reward them with 10 dollars instead of 5 or 6 dollars an hour, instead of exploiting their services because we have the power to do so. They work in those jobs for a reason, yes. And that reason is probably, for the most part, that they aren't as smart as some one getting paid 60 grand a year. But that sure as hell doesn't mean they don't work as hard. As such, this is certainly not a "hand-out" by any stretch of the imagination.

Tfan, I'm sure that you would subscribe to the notion that "absolute power corrupts absollutely" when discussing communism, but the same applies for unregulated free market capitalism. It is a travesty for big corporations to exploit labor as they do now.

[Quinn]

It is the job of companies to pay you for what your work is worth... which is determined by the free market.

A days pay for a days work.[/b]

No one here thinks we should get away from the market system (at least I don't), but that doesn't mean we can't pay workers with families the pay that their work is REALLY worth.

If you think our economy can survive without menial labor then you are out of your damn mind. We depend on their services, and should reward them with 10 dollars instead of 5 or 6 dollars an hour, instead of exploiting their services because we have the power to do so. They work in those jobs for a reason, yes. And that reason is probably, for the most part, that they aren't as smart as some one getting paid 60 grand a year. But that sure as hell doesn't mean they don't work as hard. As such, this is certainly not a "hand-out" by any stretch of the imagination.

Cosign.

-Quinn