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Originally Posted by dividebyzero
"We strolled thru the parking lot and found twenty Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars. We have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. "
Wow, being laid off for professed support for a political candidate sounds downright un-American to me, regardless of what side of the aisle they're on.
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I have to agree with TS.
Who decides fairness at this business, the owner, or the People's Workers Committee?
They wanted change, now they have it.
Assuming that the story was true, what criteria would you use to react to an evolving business situation that some of your employees helped create?
Is affirmative action fair? Is a wrong done to favor one group fair to the others?
Is taxing those who work harder and longer to benefit those who choose not to, or who do not work at all fair?
How about taxing those who studied to get better grades, and who spent the extra four years or more at college to benefit those who dropped out in high school to live at home and deal drugs on the side? Is that fair?
How about grades? Should those who work harder to get an A really not get a B and the balance of the grade go to those who choose not to work harder for it? Maybe the minority should automatically get one letter grade higher, and those who are not minorities be docked a letter grade to make up for past inequities?
There is no such thing as fairness. What is fair to one is perceived as not fair to another.
Life is tough. It is tougher if you are stupid. And voting for a candidate who wants to rob from those who have worked to succeed in order to support those who do not (frequently through their own sloth) is a bad idea.
The trouble is, as soon as 50% of this nation, plus one, discover that they can vote themselves money from the public till, and are willing to do so, the game is over. They will do so till the nation and the economy collapse. We are just now seeing the tip of that iceberg.
Ther money that we are spending today is our children's debt and burden to carry. When the social security and Medicare/Medicaid debt comes due, it will break them. And no on has the balls to tell Grandma and Grandpa that. Least of all the Dims who helped create this idiocy, and who refuse to address it.
In the end, someone always has to pay. Is that not fair? Look at nature.
TR