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[Rob <becidawa AT hctc.com>]

At  1/11/2005 06:16 PM, you wrote:
> tvoivozhd wrote:
>
> > No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages 
> > to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
> > — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
>
> So newspapers shouldn't be allowed to hire paperboys, or McDonalds hire 
> the teenagers, or a self employed person shouldn't operate if their profit 
> per hour happened to drop below some arbitrary point?

I think the key phrase in the quote was "depends for existence".

I never really thought about it, but I'd have to wonder about a company 
that would go under if they paid their workers enough to live on.
<Shrug>, it's a different world.

Rob
becidawa AT hctc.com
western Washington, USA

someday I need to find a good signature line about fools... maybe this one...

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
- Voltaire