A Free Market Economy Is Code About Working For Free

[TheMastersNemesis]

Even working for free is not enough for free marketers. They want workers to pay them for working. Though I do not know how that idea would work.

We have pretty much a $10 an hour economy and the GOP types think that that is too much. The plan to make workers so desperate that they will work for any wage. The mantra about a starving wage is better than no wage seems to be making the circuit now. And it comes from RW'ingers. That crap is despicably dishonest and immoral and actually criminal.

We are in the age of free tryouts and free internships. We have to be better than that in American. But it looks like we aren't.
I don't understand how Republican voters can support and end to labor laws and the minimum wage when I know for a fact that most of them are workers too. How can someone be that stupid or crazy.

[annabanana]

1. When they say "free market" they mean "freedom for capital"

No freedom for "labor"...

[EC]

2. In essence we already

do pay them for our jobs. They make deals with states and towns to not pay any taxes and they'll open their business and create jobs. We end up paying the taxes they aren't paying...therefore we pay them a bribe to give us a job.

[mdmc]

3. ..

[fascisthunter]

4. well... we did bail them out

so yes, we are paying them for nothing. It taxation without representation going to corporate America and the banks.

[Populist_Prole]

5. Bingo

If you are willing have a discussion for long enough to peel away the flowery image they use to sell what they think "freedom" means. Peel back the image of billowing US flags, apple pies, mom, bald eagles and shit; If you shoot their points down one by one, their "Alamo" is the "free market". Even that term needs to be flushed out though until the bastards admit that "free market" means capital has every right to extract the most form labor the the least compensation, and how you should be grateful that they are there to do so, you slothful unambitious prole! Of course by then, they'll be all tense with their veins popping out of their temples at your insolence; but that arrogance is another issue to be discussed later.