(April 25, 2014 at 10:54 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:

(April 25, 2014 at 1:19 pm)Heywood Wrote: Why should the CEO of Chick Fil a be required to recognize gay marriages? If you prevent him from doing that, then you are infringing on his liberties.

I'm going to institute a new policy with my 15 employees. Everyone who works for me will now be required to renounce Jesus and blaspheme against The Holy Spirit. Anyone who refuses will be fired. Is this something you would support?

Not serious, of course. You Christians can rest assured when "no religion" becomes the majority in this country, we will never do to you what you have done to us for the last 2000 years.

Everyone who believes I'm the messiah gets an automatic A+ !!!

(April 25, 2014 at 10:53 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Which they have historically failed at doing, hence the need for government involvement.

Not unlike the Christian need for a sky daddy: sometimes big people can't act like big people, and need a leviathan to help them put their big boy pants on and act like big people, instead of throwing tantrums about their classmates having cooties.

Is it your opinion that people are just too stupid so they need elitist like you to run their lives? Or is it your opinion that you are too stupid and need elitist to run your life?

I have faith in humanity. I have faith that if people had to run their own lives without interference from the government, they could do a better job then the government.

(April 25, 2014 at 10:58 pm)Heywood Wrote: And you guys whine when companies ship jobs overseas.

The fact is these "certain conditions" are set by people who are not the employer or the employee. These "certain conditions" are a limit on the employer and the employee's freedom.

Companies don't ship jobs overseas because of antidiscrimination policies, you blithering moron. They do it because of your precious 'free market.'

The fact that you don't see the glaring hypocrisy in your statements is laughable.

(April 25, 2014 at 11:13 pm)Heywood Wrote:

(April 25, 2014 at 10:53 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Which they have historically failed at doing, hence the need for government involvement.

Not unlike the Christian need for a sky daddy: sometimes big people can't act like big people, and need a leviathan to help them put their big boy pants on and act like big people, instead of throwing tantrums about their classmates having cooties.

Is it your opinion that people are just too stupid so they need elitist like you to run their lives?

Define "elitist"

(April 25, 2014 at 11:13 pm)Heywood Wrote: Or is it your opinion that you are too stupid and need elitist to run your life?

Listen, bud: I'm not the one arguing that adult homosexuals need an authority figure to dictate their lives. You are.

(April 25, 2014 at 11:13 pm)Heywood Wrote: I have faith in humanity.

You do? Where is it?

(April 25, 2014 at 11:13 pm)Heywood Wrote: I have faith that if people had to run their own lives without interference from the government, they could do a better job then the government.

So basically, no further thought necessary?

(April 25, 2014 at 11:19 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:

(April 25, 2014 at 10:58 pm)Heywood Wrote: And you guys whine when companies ship jobs overseas.

The fact is these "certain conditions" are set by people who are not the employer or the employee. These "certain conditions" are a limit on the employer and the employee's freedom.

Companies don't ship jobs overseas because of antidiscrimination policies, you blithering moron. They do it because of your precious 'free market.'

The fact that you don't see the glaring hypocrisy in your statements is laughable.

They do it for lots of reasons....one of which is government meddling.

(April 25, 2014 at 11:25 pm)Heywood Wrote:

(April 25, 2014 at 11:19 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Companies don't ship jobs overseas because of antidiscrimination policies, you blithering moron. They do it because of your precious 'free market.'

The fact that you don't see the glaring hypocrisy in your statements is laughable.

They do it for lots of reasons....one of which is government meddling.

Totally. Millions of jobs shipped overseas for pennies on the dollar = government meddling.

In the same way that child labor and minimum wage laws = government meddling.

(April 25, 2014 at 11:26 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote:

(April 25, 2014 at 11:25 pm)Heywood Wrote: They do it for lots of reasons....one of which is government meddling.

Totally. Millions of jobs shipped overseas for pennies on the dollar = government meddling.

In the same way that child labor and minimum wage laws = government meddling.

Minimum wage was implemented to keep the blacks poor and preserve jobs for the whites.....Billybob couldn't have some negro diluting his ability to earn a living wage he argued. But the whites shot themselves in the foot over the long run as most of those jobs did end up moving overseas to colored people.

This made my day.

Poke a hole in his defense and he just unravels.

(April 25, 2014 at 11:32 pm)Heywood Wrote:

(April 25, 2014 at 11:26 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Totally. Millions of jobs shipped overseas for pennies on the dollar = government meddling.

In the same way that child labor and minimum wage laws = government meddling.

Minimum wage was implemented to keep the blacks poor and preserve jobs for the whites.....Billybob couldn't have some negro diluting his ability to earn a living wage he argued. But the whites shot themselves in the foot over the long run as most of those jobs did end up moving overseas to colored people.

I don't see anything about that in the Wikipedia article on the act that first introduced minimum wage in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor...ct_of_1938