Posted by Le Consigliere (January 10, 2009 3:43 PM)

In response to the post:
"Musings on Democracy from Friends of the Team":
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We are seeing the sellout of a nation by 536 individuals (give or take a few), mostly for short term personal, political, or financial gain.

While the politicians have us watching one hand (the bailout), we are not watching the other. The chipping away at the foundations of free enterprise is also continuing under the radar. The equal pay for equal work goal of the left, especially feminists, will come to fruition soon under this congress.

Equal pay for equal work is another one of those feel good liberal chants. But it has nothing to do with equal pay for equal work for the same job, skill and seniority. It's really about government establishing pay scales to job skills based on some distorted perception of social value and justice instead of the free market. Think Title IX on a massive business scale.

Here's what scares me. We can survive a few years of this. But if conservatives take back the government, we can't just hold the line, we would have to actively repeal dozens of bad laws. I just don't see that happening.

January 10, 2009 3:43 PM