If they own everything, exactly where can you go and what can you do without their say so? If everything gets privatized as Libertarians would like, the whole country becomes a capitalist feudalism.
The irony, it burns.
Go look up “remuneration” and then apologize to all of us for wasting good tax dollars on your education. TYIA.
Am I being whooshed here?
Of course. There are cases in which bad luck simply drags you down, just like there are fat people with legitimately daunting medical conditions that make them unable to lose weight.
But in the vast majority of cases, that’s not the problem.
I think you are approaching this from a really odd angle. So there’s no answer to your question other than to say that it’s a bad question.
You are treating the lack of government intervention on an issue as creating a power vacuum. But we could make an almost infinite list of ways the government could bring its force to bear on different situations–so there currently exist millions and millions of power vacuums.
Accepting the existence of a power vacuum arguendo, what fills it is freedom and choice. In the example of paid parental leave, a employer can offer it or not, and employees can work there or not. An employee can bargain for it in exchange for reduced wages. If the government forces employers to give it, then the government has essentially made that bargain for each employee–too bad for those who don’t like the deal.
You are whooshing yourself. Why are you saying he isn’t paid for over-time? He gets a salary, so he’s paid for every hour he works.
I was under the impression Bricker wasn’t paid on an hourly basis. If he is then I’m in the wrong.
If he earns a fixed amount per month then no, I wouldn’t consider that payment for overtime work, considering he entered into a contract that I’m sure stipulates working hours.
That being said being expected to work 5 hours of overtime a day is a massive indicator of an issue in upper management. Either they’re too incompetent to notice the 50% extra workload they’re putting on their staff or they do know and are too greedy to care.
He should consider finding a better employer.
Skip, you don’t seem to realize that Bricker is a lawyer. He’s bot making widgets or manning a cash register.
It’s funny how people have an aversion to believing that innate dispositions or personality characteristics drive political orientation. However, some people go through tough or challenging circumstances and, seemingly regardless of whether they are successful or not, come out the other side with the attitude that other people should have it just as tough.
Other people go through tough times and come out the other side with the attitude that things needn’t be so tough and perhaps their experience might show where changes could be made to increase the likelihood of success for others.
I see more of the former attitude from conservatives. Bricker appears to be of the mind that he possesses the superhuman ability to climb walls in order to succeed, so you ought to, too.
I’d rather figure out how to lower or remove the wall in order to make everyone more successful. We do better as a society when more people succeed. Bricker, don’t you want more Americans to succeed rather than fewer? Why do you hate Americans?
I don’t know too much about this circumstance, but my understanding is that this is a result of the “No Child Left Behind,” act, which requires that a school receiving federal funds must ensure that students learning English are instructed by teachers fluent in the language. I don’t know how strong your accent is, but my understanding is that the issue is fluency, not accent.
I welcome a correction on the matter.
This rule predates the Tea Party, and in fact was championed by the Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy.
As I understand it, anyway, Ted was a Democrat.
Fair enough, and my apologies for misunderstanding.
So what you’re looking for an instance of an employer putting in safety regulations without OSHA or the union requiring it?
Do you really think if a Tea Party America prevailed back in when your dad came to the US things would have been the same for you?
Has the path to legal immigration in the US gotten easier or more difficult? Would your dad have an easier time (or at least no more difficult time) getting to the US today?
Look at laws Arizona has put in place:
So, the damn lefty liberals and their overly generous federal laws are being challenged. Arizona wants MORE restrictions. Restrictions which, if in place nationally because liberals could not fight them off, would have made life even more difficult for your dad and family when he came here (if he even managed to come here legally).
In Arizona teachers are meant to check immigration status. Were you a kid in one of those schools you’d get singled out for being Hispanic and made to prove you are here legally.
Or how about Texas where they are fine if illegal immigrants work as maids or cut your lawn but not much else:
Riddle has more that would have covered you:
Stupid? Yes but that is the mindset of the people you are dealing with.
But wait! There’s more!
You call me a bullshitter? What rock are you living under? Liberals were the ones allowing immigration that your dad could take advantage of. Conservatives seek to make it more difficult.
And the implication that conservatives favor hard work and liberals want a free lunch is the real bullshit in this thread. Liberals want fairness and equality. Give the likes of a Young Bricker a fair shot at making it in life. No unnecessary roadblocks. You get the same chance as everyone else. You have to make it on your own steam and work hard but neither should you face racist impediments.
You must be living under a rock or are so enamored of your own rags to riches story that you feel if anyone else can’t do it they are weak and whiners if they claim something is unfairly holding them back.
None of this is to demean what you achieved. You worked hard and you made it and deserve some pride in that.
There is such a thing as too much pride though. How’s the view from the pedestal you’ve placed yourself on?
I know lawyers who work for large firms who are paid fixed monthly salaries. If that’s not the case with Bricker then like I said I’m in the wrong and he is getting paid for working overtime.
I have no idea.
But I’m willing to bet you have no real interest in hearing about it.
Illness comes if it comes. That’s generally not something you can avoid – aside from special cases. If someone labors under an STD, and they got that STD from having unprotected sex with multiple partners, then that’s an obvious example of illness that can be avoided. But that’s a special case; as a general rule, I don’t claim that special preparations can cause you to avoid illness.
But preparations can avoid disaster. I have a good-sized chunk of life insurance, which means my wife won’t have to work if I die. I have long-term disability and short-term disability to cover the gap before long term kicks in, and savings to cover the gap before short term kicks in. I can’t avoid illness by planning, but I can mitigate its effects on the family I have to protect and care for.
More to the point: you do what you’re supposed to do.
This is the idea that liberals hate – that you’re “supposed” to do stuff. In the liberal mind, you’re free, like a butterfly! If it feels good, do it! Right and wrong are puritanical concepts for the fascists.
Do what you’re supposed to do: get up, go to work, work, come home. Take care of your family. That’s it.
Sure, you can do what you’re supposed to do and still get screwed. You could get hit by a meteor tomorrow, and so could I. But you stack the deck as best you can to minimize damage.
Oh, did I fail to mention that a week after arriving here, my father won the lottery? Yes, I came home from the hospital in a Rolls Royce.
My father provided very well for me, but not in money. As I have related many times here before, I grew up in poverty. Literal below-the-poverty-line poverty.
This is, of course, incomprehensible to the liberal mind. People in poverty are supposed to be grateful for the handouts that you generous liberals vote to us using other people’s money. We’re not supposed to actually break out of that and become wealthy, and we’re NEVER supposed to question the wisdom of continuing the hand-outs.
Because if we did, we might realize that the hand-outs are precisely what KEEPS us in poverty.
THAT is what my dad gave me, and I grant you is was far better than money and well worth having brothers wear each other’s old clothes because we couldn’t buy new ones.
A bet you’d lose. I worked from the time I was a kid. And shockingly, no one was paying a kid to argue points of law or review the FAR for contracting conditions.
Again, incomprehensible to the liberal mind.
Everyone keeps saying that, but no one can actually point to how my “luck” isn’t work and preparation.
It’s not a matter of smart. It’s a matter of doing what you’re supposed to do.
The liberal mind recoils at the thought.
Yes, he did.
I was lucky to have my dad, no question about that. But there are many ways a person is shown what to do in life. It’s not luck to have that information in front of you.
Your call. I seem to be doing OK with my idiotic delusions. If I’m an idiot, I’m a happy idiot. IN fact, maybe that’s the secret: to be so dumb that I don’t realize I should be screwing a girlfriend on the side, spending money on vacations and late-model cars every other year, living in a house I can’t afford, playing golf Sunday morning instead of going to Mass, and running up credit card debt. I’m too dumb to know that I could be doing all that stuff… so I just plod along, never reachign the heights of liberal intelligence, and just doing the dull, unexciting, mindless drone stuff.
More I think about it, more I think you’re right. I’m too stupid to know how boring and wretched my life really is.
So who paid for your law school? Scholarships granted on basis of financial need? Government subsidized student loans?
The problem is that things come up at 7:30 AM that I need to be here to address, and things come up at 7:30 PM that I need to be here to address. There’s no “working smarter” that would get me out of here sooner. Believe me, if there were, you’d see a lot less of me here.
Um… what do you think the word remuneration means?