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The modern conservative party is a walking contradiction to itself.
I was raised by a traditional conservative. A dutch banker... and his father.. an entrepreneur, who learned from his father, all deeply religious. Everything I know about business I know from them. One of the many things drilled into my head was this... Take care of your people and your obligations first, if there's anything left, you can pay yourself something.
They taught me that the DOI meant something. That life is a right. If you hire someone for 40 hours a week, the least you can morally pay them is the minimum a person needs to live. Food, shelter, power, transport, clothing and savings. Pay them any less and you are stealing life from them.
I won't post beyond this as I don't believe this issue is up for debate. In all honesty, all attempts to refute this will be viewed in my humble opinion, as pathetic attempts to reconcile the christian right hypocrisy with justifications... a waste of space and time.
I was raised by a traditional conservative. A dutch banker... and his father.. an entrepreneur, who learned from his father, all deeply religious. Everything I know about business I know from them. One of the many things drilled into my head was this... Take care of your people and your obligations first, if there's anything left, you can pay yourself something.
They taught me that the DOI meant something. That life is a right. If you hire someone for 40 hours a week, the least you can morally pay them is the minimum a person needs to live. Food, shelter, power, transport, clothing and savings. Pay them any less and you are stealing life from them.
I won't post beyond this as I don't believe this issue is up for debate. In all honesty, all attempts to refute this will be viewed in my humble opinion, as pathetic attempts to reconcile the christian right hypocrisy with justifications... a waste of space and time.