tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post3443194246785526888..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: The Wages of Socialism is PovertyDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-66727269771619212872016-08-15T19:29:48.862-07:002016-08-15T19:29:48.862-07:00mmazenko: health care and education are two field...mmazenko: health care and education are two fields with overwhelming governmental involvement--and they're the two fields with costs that are rising far faster than inflation. Coincidence? I think not.<br /><br />I'm not even going to discuss undocumented workers (read: illegal immigrants) except to say that even Cesar Chavez was against them, as they lower the wages for people who can work legally.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-18510293209187153442016-08-15T15:17:51.806-07:002016-08-15T15:17:51.806-07:00Maybe.
But without "interference" in te...Maybe.<br /><br />But without "interference" in terms of wages and workplace protections, we'd have much lower standards of living, and we'd resemble those third world countries that find socialism so attractive.<br /><br />The "market is self-correcting"? So, you see it as progress that working class jobs like "meatpacker" used to provide a middle-class wage and some career security, and now it's a minimum wage job considered one of the most dangerous in the country which is disporoportionately staffed by undocumented workers. That's a great "correction."<br /> <br />If the market were truly self-correcting, then health care would be affordable for working class people. Currently, it isn't.<br />mmazenkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06602797515366983639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-29443191847983573352016-08-15T13:39:18.945-07:002016-08-15T13:39:18.945-07:00There is capitalism and then there is crony capita...There is capitalism and then there is crony capitalism. One of them is not actually capitalism, and that's the one that lefty organizations like popular media hold up as the big evil to vote against (yet still supporting people like the Clintons who have made a fortune from it.)Pseudotsugahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04113260814272433972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-37510172811128840462016-08-14T22:10:43.144-07:002016-08-14T22:10:43.144-07:00The market is self-correcting, and would be more s...The market is self-correcting, and would be more so if do-gooders as well as just plain evil people would quit mucking with it so much.<br /><br />And no, that is *not* advocacy of laissez faire, but it *is* advocacy for significantly less *interference*.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-80593301261685882222016-08-14T18:48:03.245-07:002016-08-14T18:48:03.245-07:00That's true. But capitalism has a problem that...That's true. But capitalism has a problem that it must fix, and it is centered on labor and wages.<br /><br />http://time.com/4327419/american-capitalisms-great-crisis/<br />mmazenkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06602797515366983639noreply@blogger.com