Are any of you folks from the UK attending the Olympics?

[jackman]

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now, i will say whatever the fuck i think. yeah you do make your point clear - you feel like ron paul removing minimum wage will help poor. yeah that shows how much you care about "poor people" here. gtfoh!

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It would help the poor. Eliminating minimum wage enables small business to offer more jobs to workers. There are people out there who are earning less than minimum wage already...we call them "unemployed". You think they would prefer to earn nothing rather than a $1 an hour job?

i can't really believe you don't see how wrong this is. it's like going to eat at a 4-star restaurant and tipping the server $1 for her time, when an appropriate tip may be $20. considering their salary is partially reduced below minwage since they're expected to get tips. it's completely rude and doesn't do anything for the economy, it makes another disgruntled employee who is gone all day (at work) yet can't afford the bus pass that would take him there daily. it could spin off into tons of bad things, besides workplace morale and criminality to get more money to survive properly. if you're on welfare here, you're doing much better than someone who would make less than minwage - so why bother working? you could sit home on your hump and make money.

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if you care so much about the ones in the street starving, go take them something ... or don't, yet still knock people for trying to things to expand the country's position in the world.

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I do take them something. I'm just one person; I want the government to do something about it too. They spent 9 billion on an event in which some of the wealthiest athletes in the world compete for shiny things. Ultimately, knowing who is the fastest person in the world is irrelevant when there are people in the world with nothing to eat.

ok man. they're not competing for the shiny things as much as the status that they're the recognized best in the world at what they do. btw, if shiny medals are so bad, why do we use them for posts and years? lol.

i won't try to defend them anymore, i assumed this lot was supposed to be an open-minded crew - don't knock people based on their race, the sexuality, etc... except the athletes, they're just dumb! ok, i've lost interest. i like the damn olympics and appreciate the work they put in to be the best.

you win!