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[quote=Anonymous]I think the problem in this country is fundamentally that the IDEA of slavery has never really gone away.  Sure, we fought a long bloody war to formally abolish it (I know, I know, the war was REALLY about states rights, but nonetheless....).  But the desire to use workers, to treat them as fodder for your enterprise, is older than the Pyramids.  The early part of the 20th century, with it's child labors, 16 hour work days, deplorable conditions - it's easy to see that given their druthers, employers will use and abuse their workers to whatever extent they can get away with.  Robber Barons are still alive and well, now they are just the bailed out bankers on Wall Street or the millionaire owners of Walmart or Papa Johns.

I think it's disingenuous to suggest that "American was built on capitalism and free markets" when what America was really built on is the economic rape of the working class.  I think that we really do need laws and regulations that level the playing field between business and workers.  I think we are going to have to force businesses to step and and stay stepped up when it comes to taxes and benefits.  I think that just like slave owners who predicted the end of the economic world if we ended slavery, just like big business who predicted that overtime and OSHA laws would end enterprise as we know it, that healthcare is just the latest in a series of bare minimums that employers will have to contribute to.  and well all survive - as long as we stop the off-shoring of our jobs.  [/quote]

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