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In reply to the discussion: Papa John's CEO John Schnatter Says Company Will Reduce Workers' Hours In Response To Obamacare [View all]iemitsu
(3,888 posts)in support of single-payer, government sponsored health care. That sort of system would save American workers and their bosses lots of money and relieve employers of having to deal with private health insurers to provide health care coverage for their workers.
It would also make them favorites among customers, a great PR move.
It amazes me how many people with more than enough are willing to take from those who can't afford to give, in order to protect wealth they don't need. Scrooges.
So much wealth, power and influence and Mr. Schnatter uses it to punish his already low paid workers, by reducing their hours, so he can avoid providing health coverage. He is proud of how rich he's become at the expense of his employees. He believes he made that money.
Like in the film, A Day Without Mexicans, a day without workers would serve Schnatter right (and many days without a customer). He would not be able to function (and wouldn't "make" a penny) without the workers, to whom he is so dismissive.
I hope President Obama promotes and ultimately signs some real socialist legislation that would bring our economy and society into the 21st century. That is what this jerk, and others like him, deserve (and so do the rest of us).
Its time we dump the Plantation Capitalism model and recognize that the value of a business is equal to the value of the labor. What is called profit represents how much the workers are underpaid for their work. If the boss is actually involved in production or marketing of the product then he deserves a cut of the value, otherwise he is a leach.
The laws of the market-place are not divine or natural laws, that justify huge profits for the few at the expense of the many, they are the result of political policy decisions.
The rich can live, and still be rich, with policy decisions that require them to help support the government and people who made them rich.
They act as if paying a few percentage points more in taxes will be their death. How melodramatic!
They should be paying much more than that. I'd vote for a return to the tax structure of the World War II Era (we do have wars to pay for after all) when the top tax rate was between 88% and 91%.
America's debt is the result of the top earners not paying their share of our country's bills. Rather than borrowing another cent from foreign governments we ought to ask our own rich to pay the bills. After all, we, the workers and the government, all toil for the wealth of our nation, which can be found in the bank accounts of the rich.