Cheap-labor conservatives dont like social spending or our safety net. Why? Because when youre unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like - which is inevitably next to nothing. You see, they want you over a barrel and in a position to work cheap or starve. Cheap-labor conservatives dont like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why? These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you over a barrel. Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a womans right to choose. Why? Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women over a barrel, forcing them to work cheap. Cheap-labor conservatives dont like unions. Why? Because when labor sticks together, wages go up. Thats why workers unionize. Seems workers dont like being over a barrel. Cheap-labor conservatives constantly bray about morality, virtue, respect for authority, hard work and other values. Why? So they can blame your being over a barrel on your own immorality, lack of values and poor choices. Cheap-labor conservatives encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Why? Bigotry among wage earners distracts them, and keeps them from recognizing their common interests as wage earners. Cheap-labor conservatives opposed virtually all of the New Deal, including every improvement in wages and working conditions. Cheap-labor conservatives have a long and sorry history of opposing virtually every advancement in this countrys development going right back to the American revolution. Cheap-labor conservatives have hated Social Security and Medicare since their inception. Many cheap-labor conservatives are hostile to public education. They think it should be privatized. But why are we surprised? Cheap-labor conservatives opposed universal public education in its early days. School vouchers are just a backdoor method to resegregate the public schools. Cheap-labor conservatives hate the progressive income tax like the devil hates holy water. Cheap-labor conservatives like budget deficits and a huge national debt for two reasons. A bankrupt government has a harder time doing any social spending - which cheap-labor conservatives oppose, and . . . Wealthy cheap-labor conservatives like say, George W. Bush, buy the bonds and then earn tax free interest on the money they lend the government. The deficit created by cheap-labor conservatives while they posture as being fiscally conservative - may count as the biggest con job in American history. Free Trade, globalization, NAFTA and especially GATT are intended to create a world-wide corporate playground where national governments serve the interests of corporations - which means cheap labor. The ugly truth is that cheap-labor conservatives just dont like working people. They dont like bottom up prosperity. Remember, cheap-labor conservatives believe in social hierarchy and privilege, so the only prosperity they want is limited to them. They want to see absolutely nothing that benefits the guy - or more often the woman - who works for an hourly wage. Once you understand this about the cheap-labor conservatives, the real motivation for their policies makes perfect sense. sideshow.me.uk/annex/defeattherightin3minutes.htm
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