"Child slavery". There's just no debating this kind of hysterical hyperbole, which is the only thing the left is good at (the actual results of their good intentions are easily debatable).

And the mental patient who wrote that article is wrong in the very first paragraph, conveniently "forgetting" more Rs voted for the original Civil Rights Act than Ds.

>> ^quantumushroom:

"Child slavery". There's just no debating this kind of hysterical hyperbole, which is the only thing the left is good at (the actual results of their good intentions are easily debatable).
And the mental patient who wrote that article is wrong in the very first paragraph, conveniently "forgetting" more Rs voted for the original Civil Rights Act than Ds.


I agree that it comes off as a little hysterical. The slippery slope: "Is this the start of?..." is never a good argument. I don't really think of 16-year-olds as being "children". And I think they should have a say in determining their own hours (because I have plenty of friends who's pathetic parents made their having a job in high school necessary).

But I will never support the lowering of minimum wage in any situation.

FYI: "Republicans were different 50 years ago" is not an effective way to support any position. Remembering your history doesn't mean "selectively." The right has done more than enough in the last 50 years to show their ever-changing position on labor.

Yeah I agree with QM that this is going a bit far and if this even happened 100% of Republicans would go "WHOOOAAA Wait a fucking minute". Now I disagree that this is something that the Left is only good for. You wanna go for hysterical hyperbole you'll have to go with how they describe Barrack Obama. I'm on the Left, Obama is Middle Right if anything, yet he's portrayed as the most radical socialist since Che, it's crazy look at his fucking policies.

Companies use as much temporary, low wage, no benefit labor as they can legally get away with. If they can lobby to get more of that, they will. Simple as that. They certainly don't care about teaching children anything, and using that as part of the argument is lame.

And in this time of so many desperate for work, employers would love a shot at paying as little as desperate people would be willing to work for.