SobieskiSavedEurope
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Example ONe. Bring back manufacturing jobs that provide a good wage so that a father can provide for his family without working so much that he has no family life.
Secondary effects. With a core of better jobs, less competition for even Busing jobs improves wages and conditions for those jobs.
There are no examples there, Corry.....only some 'I can dream, can't I...." wishes.
Not only is there no gain without the commensurate effort, such as in my example of the efforts of the Sunset Park Chinese folks....
1. We live in a global economy. Jobs are in competition with far lower wage workers elsewhere.
2. Tariffs were, largely, the cause of the Depression
3. If we start awarding success to individuals, psychology and experience prove that they become worthless. The efforts put in are what make the rewards so meaningful.
BTW....know which group has the highest educational attainment, lowest crime rates, and highest income in the nation?
Yup....Asians.
There's no 'white privilege.'
And....beware, Corry.....your wishes come dangerously close to this: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs)
1. We live in a "global economy" because of policy that makes it so. We don't have to have our workers in direct competition with far lower wage workers elsewhere.
2. We were a massive exporting nation then. Today we are exactly opposite.
3. I don't see how anything in my example was about awarding success.
3b Working 40 hours a week, if that is enough to pay the bills, is not going to make father feel less a sense of accomplishment. Will Asian culture really collapse if Dad has time to teach his son to ride a bike?
The accomplishments must be based on individual responsibility, not government regulations and statutes.
Are you suggesting things like minimum wage laws???
....walter e. williams:
- While legislative bodies have the power to order wage increases, they have not as of yet found a way to order commensurate increases in worker productivity that make the worker’s output worth the higher wage.
- Further, while Congress can legislate the wage at which labor transactions occur, it cannot require that the transaction actually be made, and the worker hired.
Our current crappy manufacturing sector is not a result of individual responsibility, it is a result fo bad government trade policy.
If we have trade policy to encourage US manufacturing and immigration policy to reduce labor supply, minimum wage laws will become quickly irrelevant as wages rise well beyond them.
"... bad government trade policy..."
Spot on!
Somehow, Liberals, Democrats, Progressives, Socialists, etc., have put their faith in the knowledge of self-proclaimed experts, rather than the wisdom of society itself.
"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"To conservatives, the fundamental problem with the Left is what Friedrich Hayek called the fatal conceit: the delusion that experts are wise enough to redesign society.
Conservatives distrust central planners, preferring to rely on traditional institutions that protect individuals’ “natural rights” against the power of the state. Leftists have much more confidence in experts and the state.
Engels argued for “scientific socialism,” a redesign of society supposedly based on the scientific method. Communist intellectuals planned to mold the New Soviet Man. Progressives yearned for a society guided by impartial agencies unconstrained by old-fashioned politics and religion.
Herbert Croly, founder of the New Republic and a leading light of progressivism, predicted that a “better future would derive from the beneficent activities of expert social engineers who would bring to the service of social ideals all the technical resources which research could discover.”
The Real War on Science
That's not Conservative, that's Classical Liberalism.
Real Conservatives grasp that Authoritarianism is needed, to stop Liberal / Capitalist degeneracy, like hired Illegals, hired Refugees, Outsourced jobs, Pornography, Prostitution, Illicit drugs, Abortion, Gay Marriage, Hollywood, Media, and Facebook too.
The Refugees, and Illegals (Migrants) you hate so dearly, are largely here because of the Capitalism you support.
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