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    Thread: Why we need a mandatory living wage:
Post: RE: Why we need a mandatory living wage:
Thats actually quite true. The theory of supply and demand is a simplex module of the economy. You then have to add the psychology of economics and perception which often seems to drive economists b...
 Isun News & Current Affairs 96 14465 September 4, 2014 at 1:54 pm
    Thread: Why we need a mandatory living wage:
Post: RE: Why we need a mandatory living wage:
(September 4, 2014 at 8:03 am)bladevalant546 Wrote: Some of the responses here are so misguided. The only reason why prices rise is not the soak up the cost of labor. But because they believe since ...
 Isun News & Current Affairs 96 14465 September 4, 2014 at 10:10 am
    Thread: Why we need a mandatory living wage:
Post: RE: Why we need a mandatory living wage:
There are many reasons that raising the minimum wage may or may not increase prices. Labor is only a percent of the total cost of a product. For example labor may only represent 10% of the cost. I...
 Isun News & Current Affairs 96 14465 September 3, 2014 at 9:24 am
    Thread: Court Smacks Anti-Women, Jesus-Freak, Texas Bastards In The Teeth
Post: RE: Court Smacks Anti-Women, Jesus-Freak, Texas Ba...
It is a lot depending on who was appointed to these courts. Bush for example appointed many unqualified people to court because his principal qualifier was if they were loyal. Several of his appoint...
 Isun Politics 3 1471 August 30, 2014 at 5:19 am
    Thread: authoritarian/libertarian-left/right spectrum test
Post: RE: authoritarian/libertarian-left/right spectrum ...
A market isn't a free market if there are regulations. Capitalism is fine, if it is closely regulated and enforced. Problem today in the US is they have far more power than the average person and th...
 Isun Politics 90 11524 August 22, 2014 at 2:42 pm
    Thread: 2016 Prediction
Post: RE: 2016 Prediction
Never said they turn down their checks, but the contributors generally agree with her viewpoint. Democrats for example know we need to increase minimum wage. The republicans would continue if not e...
 Isun Politics 52 5311 August 22, 2014 at 2:32 pm
    Thread: 2016 Prediction
Post: RE: 2016 Prediction
Actually there is quite a bit of difference between the two. The republicans would get us into more wars, would be a disaster in creating jobs (the fantasy that the rich create jobs), They would pre...
 Isun Politics 52 5311 August 21, 2014 at 8:54 pm
    Thread: authoritarian/libertarian-left/right spectrum test
Post: RE: authoritarian/libertarian-left/right spectrum ...
It is also an inaccurate accessment of the differences between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives don't believe in individual rights. Perfect example is their continual attacks against the r...
 Isun Politics 90 11524 August 21, 2014 at 6:19 pm
    Thread: Rick Perry Indicted
Post: RE: Rick Perry Indicted
Now that he is a national figure, probably far more than would have 5 years ago.
 Isun Politics 34 4011 August 16, 2014 at 6:21 am
    Thread: Rick Perry Indicted
Post: RE: Rick Perry Indicted
The last governor that did what Rick Perry did, was impeached....or would have, he resigned before he was impeached "The last Texas governor to face criminal charges was James E. “Pa” Ferguson, who w...
 Isun Politics 34 4011 August 15, 2014 at 9:47 pm
    Thread: Rick Perry Indicted
Post: RE: Rick Perry Indicted
Cool. Be nice if he ended up in jail.
 Isun Politics 34 4011 August 15, 2014 at 9:02 pm
    Thread: Our Great Helath Care System
Post: RE: Our Great Helath Care System
1) We most certainly do have a private health care system. The 50 employees is only recently and isn't a burden on the company. Nor did the government require any company to provide health care befo...
 Isun Politics 26 4212 August 9, 2014 at 9:22 pm
    Thread: Our Great Helath Care System
Post: RE: Our Great Helath Care System
Exactly. And even though I am not an expert I have done some reading of several different health care systems such as the one in Germany, France, England, and Canada. The best appears to be a c...
 Isun Politics 26 4212 August 9, 2014 at 6:57 pm
    Thread: Our Great Helath Care System
Post: RE: Our Great Helath Care System
Problem with your proposition is that the market system of healthcare in the US has been a total failure. 1) It has led to the highest cost healthcare system in the world 2) higher death rate for...
 Isun Politics 26 4212 August 9, 2014 at 2:39 pm
    Thread: Our Great Helath Care System
Post: RE: Our Great Helath Care System
Republicans are fine with it. Course they pretend that the cost isn't passed to the rest of us anyways, but that is another subject.
 Isun Politics 26 4212 August 7, 2014 at 6:31 pm
    Thread: Conservative atheists are better than you
Post: RE: Conservative atheists are better than you
I think people need to be careful what they mean when they say "fiscally" conservative. For example I am also fiscally conservative and a social liberal. Morally I can't be a republican because in m...
 Isun Politics 33 9774 August 6, 2014 at 7:38 pm
    Thread: Damned Republicunts
Post: RE: Damned Republicunts
I am beginning to wonder if Ted Cruz is an undercover KGB agent. He sure acts like it.
 Isun Politics 1793 279053 July 31, 2014 at 7:19 pm
    Thread: Malaysian airlines plane shot down over Ukraine
Post: RE: Malaysian airlines plane shot down over Ukrain...
They know who fired it. They have tapes of conversation between the separatist and russian military command where they told them they fucked it, it was a airline.
 Isun News & Current Affairs 54 7393 July 17, 2014 at 7:31 pm
    Thread: Solving Illegal Immigration: Labor Unions in Latin America!
Post: RE: Solving Illegal Immigration: Labor Unions in L...
Actually, that is just an excuse to keep people living in poverty. If the middle class was to grow across all of south america, then demand would grow and so would business. If they have demand they...
 Isun Politics 27 5895 July 9, 2014 at 11:32 am
    Thread: What am I? Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Independent?
Post: RE: What am I? Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, ...
Marriage has been around far longer than christianity.
 Isun Politics 76 13462 July 4, 2014 at 9:32 am