do you agree that if conservatives had thier way we would still have child labor and sweat shops?

Question

conservative,s are conservative about social issues but very very liberal when it comes to sending someone elses child to war to be maimed and killed......the reverse is true of liberals

Answer 1

Not only child labor and sweat shops but no overtime, worker safety laws, benefits, fair wages, and no limits on pollution. Whenever you hear someone complain about unions or government regulations, you can tell who's best interests they have in mind.

Answer 2

I'm almost 100% sure they are. I watched a documentary in my econ class last year (I forgot which one it was.. It might have been "Capitalism: A Love Story" by Michael Moore) and they revealed girls of around age 16 coming out of the Nike factory and they weren't allowed to talk about the conditions inside, but showed their pay stubs to the them. It was really little money that they're working for. I wish I could give more details, but my memory is faulty. You should research it up. There are tons of companies that are doing this. Simply because consumers want the cheapest product they can lay their hands on, right? So, companies are allowed to do so by hiring cheap laborers. It only makes sense, but is ethically wrong. To the answer by brotha21, just because a company has nice sales associates, doesn't mean they don't use sweatshops... Just remembered what documentary I saw it in, "The Corporation."

Answer 3

Sure... It's never conservative-minded people who institue social reforms (unless you want to count Prohibition - and that was a total failure, just the the Drug War!) The good people (including good Christians) who opposed slavery were condemned by the conservatives of their time as "immoral", "anti-God", etc... Same with every other positive change in society - they were all condemned as "ungodly", "atheistic", and so on by the conservatives of their day! While the conservatives of today say they now know that slavery, etc., was wrong, they still think in the same hard-headed manner as their ancestors on current issues like gay marriage (that is they haven't learned that their way of THINKING is wrong; they just think they made a mistake on a few minor issues!)

Answer 4

The economic policy debate isn't among rich, middle class, lower-income class and poor - it's a matter of those who want to allow more poor and lower-income people to become middle class and more middle class people to become rich versus those who want to keep more people dependent upon government.

It's true that the already-rich are richer than they were five or twenty-five years ago. But it's also true that in absolute terms the proportion of the country that is "rich" has grown dramatically while the proportion that is middle class has shrunk, and the proportion of the country that is "poor" has grown but only at 1/3 the rate at which poor people emmigrate here. Middle class people are moving UP. Poor people are moving UP - just getting replaced by NEW poor immigrants.

The already-rich are getting richer too, and some disingenuous commentators use this fact to claim that there is no mobility - if you make double what you made in 1990, triple what you made in 1980, then somehow the fact that T. Boone Pickens makes five times what he made in 1990 and seven times what he made in 1980 means you haven't moved up...... This is obviously silly, but the NY Times allows Paul Krugman to write it.

I've attached some articles below - some of these are from sources such as branches of the Federal Reserve and the Census Bureau - unless you're a complete kook you don't think these are part of the vast right wing conspiracy (don't laugh, some people on Yahoo boards have stated that the Census Bureau is part of the VRWC). If you want an honest answer, if you really are genuinely curious and want to try to learn just how much of the "class warfare" rhetoric is real and how much is a cynical shell game played with groups whose membership turns over 80% within a decade, you'll print these and read them.

But if you're a hack you'll just declare the BLS data lies and Lou Dobbs' ad hominems the truth.

Answer 5

This is the same technique I have taught over 138,000 men and women in 157 countries to successfully treat their excessive sweating condition over the past 7 years!

Remember: Watch the whole video, as the ending will pleasantly surprise you�

Answer 6

We didn't send anybody to war. in case you've been on the moon for the last 40 years, the military is voluntary. People enlist everyday. They do it because they care about their country, not because we make them. So get that through your thick head. A majority of this country is Conservative. So this just shows that you are an outcast in this country. A majority of our soldiers are conservatives. So this just shows that Conservatives are more likely to give their lives for a country they so dearly love. What have you done for this country besides bag on Conservatives and the president? Do yourself a favor, sit down, drink your latte, and try not to hurt yourself.

Answer 7

College is child labor; all it means is: working without pay and living like a 12-year-old until you are 22 so that you never grow up. Any real American would have defied the corporate bullies and said, "How dare you ask a MAN to go four years without a job in order to get a job? You don't create jobs; WE created your wealth and because you have abused the status it gives you, we want it back."

But Americans are no longer men; they are only boytoys for NaziCon oinkonomics.

Their regime will collapse because it chooses inferior people to prop it up. They wanted mice, they got rats. They wanted worms, they got snakes. They wanted puppets, they got dummies.

Answer 8

Stop picking on my future slaves,,,I mean workers. Their cheap labor adds to my bonus check. Let the government pay for their brainwashing,,, I mean education. I will get more subsidies from the Gov. to train them in my slop house,,, I mean business establishment.
Please help the immigrants come in. Vote for any Liberal that runs for office.
Remember the Liberal motto,,"What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine". "Do as I say as I know better than you".
Be a good American and Let the Government run your life.
Don"t worry Be Happy

Answer 9

Maybe I've worked too many factory gigs, but we still have sweatshops. Ever here of a welder's trap. Get out and live a little before you discuss idiotic hypotheticals.

Answer 10

LMAO.

Rather then discussing with fellow Liberals what the Concervatives would do, why don't you listen to a Conservative like me?


NO!

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I'm gonna make a question asking Liberals got there way, would Christians be slaves? See how insane that question is? Now you know.