04-05-2009, 03:57 AM
"The failure to develop a marketable job skill or work ethic is the very definition of self-destructive behavior. Those who constantly drone on about minimum wage increass or "living wage" ordinances are their enablers. In every sense they help unskilled individuals avoid the consequences of their self-destructive behavior. This isn't evidence of love or compassion. More often than not,it's evidence of either a complete ignorance of the consequences of your action, or of political gamesmanship."
"The easier you make it for people to fail in their primary responsiblity to develop some marketable value in our business world, the more of that self-destructive behavior you will see."
"Those who favor the protection of laziness and bad behavior through the ill-gotten rewards of the minimmum wage are doing a disservice to the very people they profess to be helping. The idea behind raising the minimum wage-or having a government-mandated minimum wage at all, for that matter-is to simply increase and solidify the power of the political class by creating and maintaining a class of workers more dependent on government largesse for their daily bread than on their own hard work."
"When the government forces you to pay your workers more than the value of their work, the difference between what you have to pay and what they are worth to you must be made up elsewhere. Basically, there are two ways to make up the difference:
1. Fire workers or slow down future hiring to cover the increase in your labor budget. You can accomplish this through automation, or by expanding the workload o those whom you are forced to give unearned raises.
2. Increase the price of goods your workers produce. This, of course, results in an increase in overall consumber prices; an increase that can all but wipe out the minimum wage increase for lower-income workers."
"A massive terrorist weapon might destroy a city. Our government schools will destroy a generation."
"The poor keep getting poorer because they keep doing whatever it was that made them poor in the first place. Ditto for the rich."
"There is nothing at all unexpected or unforseen about the behaviorthat's responsible for most of the poverty in this country. If you ignore your education, fail to develop a work ethic, do drugs, get pregnant before you're out of high school or before you can aford to raise a child, become a petty criminal, join a gang, hang with what you obviously know to be the wrong crowd, become a drinker, or generally comport yourself like a self-loathing slob, guess what? You're probably not going to make a hell of a lot of money! You're going to end up poor, with nothing to do but work at that occasional minimum-wage job you may find while spending the rest of your time complaining that the government isn't doing enough for you."
"Your situation has nothing to do with luck or fortune. You did this to yourself. You're suffering the obvious and easily predictable result of your own failure and laziness. And things aren't going to get any better until you stop clinging to that idea that you're "less fortunate" and start looking in the mirror for the source of your problems."
Neal Bortz (I LOVE this guy).
"The easier you make it for people to fail in their primary responsiblity to develop some marketable value in our business world, the more of that self-destructive behavior you will see."
"Those who favor the protection of laziness and bad behavior through the ill-gotten rewards of the minimmum wage are doing a disservice to the very people they profess to be helping. The idea behind raising the minimum wage-or having a government-mandated minimum wage at all, for that matter-is to simply increase and solidify the power of the political class by creating and maintaining a class of workers more dependent on government largesse for their daily bread than on their own hard work."
"When the government forces you to pay your workers more than the value of their work, the difference between what you have to pay and what they are worth to you must be made up elsewhere. Basically, there are two ways to make up the difference:
1. Fire workers or slow down future hiring to cover the increase in your labor budget. You can accomplish this through automation, or by expanding the workload o those whom you are forced to give unearned raises.
2. Increase the price of goods your workers produce. This, of course, results in an increase in overall consumber prices; an increase that can all but wipe out the minimum wage increase for lower-income workers."
"A massive terrorist weapon might destroy a city. Our government schools will destroy a generation."
"The poor keep getting poorer because they keep doing whatever it was that made them poor in the first place. Ditto for the rich."
"There is nothing at all unexpected or unforseen about the behaviorthat's responsible for most of the poverty in this country. If you ignore your education, fail to develop a work ethic, do drugs, get pregnant before you're out of high school or before you can aford to raise a child, become a petty criminal, join a gang, hang with what you obviously know to be the wrong crowd, become a drinker, or generally comport yourself like a self-loathing slob, guess what? You're probably not going to make a hell of a lot of money! You're going to end up poor, with nothing to do but work at that occasional minimum-wage job you may find while spending the rest of your time complaining that the government isn't doing enough for you."
"Your situation has nothing to do with luck or fortune. You did this to yourself. You're suffering the obvious and easily predictable result of your own failure and laziness. And things aren't going to get any better until you stop clinging to that idea that you're "less fortunate" and start looking in the mirror for the source of your problems."
Neal Bortz (I LOVE this guy).