(01-14-2019, 09:04 PM)Sammy Wrote:

(01-14-2019, 05:42 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Regarding Social Security, it should have been privatized a long time ago... even prior to the President George W. Bush administration talking about it.  Take a look at how much you have paid into it over the course of 1 year and imagine how much that would be worth even at a low interest rate.  Multiply that over the course of your working career and you end up with a much higher figure.  The bottom line is, people, not the government should be responsible for saving for their own retirement.

Minimum wage and maximum working hour laws should be done away with and let the free market sort it out.  Government has no business telling private businesses what to do or how much to pay.

 
I agree with you mostly, but … You had me until minimum wage, maximum hours … If there isn’t a “Wall” (for effect/affect?), someone (Thousands, and thousands) from Nicaragua (pick a country) are going to enter illegally and take your children’s job, work 90 hours a week for three dollars an hour (without overtime pay) under the table at a company that can’t afford the rules the US government has put in place for employers to adhere to (or be fined/shutdown). If your children become an employer, they will not be on the same field as their foreign located and governed competitor. We are handicapping our own economy, our own future. This isn't the USA against a similarly governed, and regulated country. This is unfair government over site that holds the American employer/worker back from equally competing on a global scale.

If you want to fix stuff in the “labor force”, you have to level America’s work force playing field. Force the EPA upon China, force OSHA on Mexico, Force businesses in Pakistan to protect their workers as well as the USA does. Force fair hourly pay, a fair hourly work week and safe workers conditions in competitive countries. As long as our work force is competing against unfair labor laws of other countries, our workers will lose. End OSHA, end the insane EPA restrictions and the government mandated “Rules” of manufacture that all these other countries do not impose at the costly employer level. Check 95% of the stuff on Amazon … Made in China. Nearly every order on Amazon goes to a China pocket. Employer cost are low when foreign countries don’t hold their employers as accountable as Western countries do. We can’t compete given our “ worker safety rules”.

The US Government oversite of US employers choke them out of the competition with extreme safety guidelines that aren’t leveled upon other countries employers. OSHA, the EPA, and Insurance requirements are huge killers to the US economy. We can’t have our three largest industries being the Health Care Industry, The Insurance Industry, and the “Protect our workers industries”. But, we are headed there.

The most important vote we can all place is to protect your children’s future. I was once fined $1,000.00 for not having the ground leg on a $15.00 extension cord (by OSHA) that had broken off. Made in China and only one out of 100 in the shop. … Would that $1,000.00 be a fine in Mexico, or China? That took money out of my workers pocket. Our employers are competing against unfair rules, and we pay US government agencies to enforce those rules. We pay people to make those rules even harder for our own workforce to compete under.
 
So yeah … somewhat what you said.