Why the **race card***, Dickey???

Ahhhh, as for the guarenteed national income, how can you comment that the model is unworkable as it has never been tried here in the US???

Hey, it would elliminate poverty as we know it in families that have a working parent...

Minimum wage has been a joke... It has never been set at a level that would take someone earning it out of poverty... Even in 1969 when it had its highest spending power, a family could rise above the poverty line on it...

Plus, consider this... There are lots on samll companies who don't have the clout of the "Boss Hogs", mine for example, who could not compete if I had to pay a "livable wage"... This is a reality we have here in America... Most working folks who don't have health insurance are younger folks working for independent companies...

And, yeah, it does come down to doors... "Boss Hog" is gonna have his doors and guess what??? He pays less... Get's 'u when he wants 'um and the independents get the hind teet... This is not a level playing field and for me to build a house I can't pay a "livable wage" and ***benefits*** and overcome the "Boss Hog" unfair advantage...

This is reality in the, ahhhhhh, real world where real people get up in the mornin' and go to work... And it's part of our discussion of poverty... Both my employees live under the poverty line... Am I proud of this??? Heck, no... Do I have any choice in this??? Heck, no... When the playing field is so unlevel this is what happens...

Yeah, I think that thr governemnt needs to ***govern*** the wealth distributuion and I think the *govern*ment owes as much to the working poor as ot owes to "Boss Hog"...

Yeah, this is about doors... And much more when the rich get the breaks and the rest just get broke...

Think about it, Dickey...

Bobert