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Quote by: Osborn F Enready  This is a complex problem you are attempting to over-simplify, which makes it harder to understand, and easier to justify bad legislation.
Wages aren't keeping pace because the type of work is changing drasticly as manufacturing moves offshore, and service industry becomes the norm. This is a problem caused by many things, but mainly the devaluing of the dollar, the creation of laws that allow manufacturers in third world countries that abuse their workers to enter our trade market with their goods, illegal aliens flooding the labor workforce and lowering wages on low-skilled jobs, and overall, over-taxation while simulataneously borrowing from foreign nations to spend much more than we are making. |
For all your introduced complications, people's wages still trail or just keep pace with inflation, making health insurance a competitor with basic living expenses, education expenses, and the like.
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Quote by: Osborn F Enready There is no reason for corporations to offer healthcare coverage anymore. |
I think most Americans, like myself, would agree. They increasingly support national health insurance instead (see poll I posted above).
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Quote by: Osborn F Enready Exactly, which is why corporations are now using this as an EXCUSE to create new hiring descrimination policies, attempting to FORCE society to conform to "their prescribed vision" of what America should be. This is yet another blatant step towards authoritarian control. |
Where in the US Constitution does it say that employers must keep an alcoholic on the payroll? Also, most private business HATES paying for expensive mandatory employee insurance programs, which undercuts the motivation to "force" society into some "prescribed vision" of utopia.
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Quote by: Osborn F Enready Which is exactly what the corporations and big government want.... Total control over you, your finances, your medical access and your life.
Good sheeple. (pet pet pet pet) |
Really? Even the majority of private physicians who support national health care in the recent poll I posted are in on this giant conspiracy too? Oh, right, they must all be named Sheeple, MD.