Back to business

 With all respect to Kevin and Linda's situation, I thought we might get back to what we do. While constantly continuing in prayer and support for them, I thought I would put up a blog. If I'm wrong, please let me know. It can come down. But this blog has always stayed in the fight, so here we go.

Let's talk about minimum wage. The democrat/communist party is fighting hard for a $15/hr minimum wage. And that would just be the start. It would over time go up, we all know that. So what's wrong with that idea? Don't untrained unskilled unmotivated workers deserve to get paid more than they are worth just because? Simple answer, no.

Labor is a commodity on the free market. Your labor is worth what an employer decides it is worth. In the free market system we are currently under, that's the price of everything. Mostly. I have something I make. Some gadget. I want to sell it. You want to buy it. I name my price, you decide if my gadget is worth the price. If you think it is, then you buy it. We're both happy. I have money now, you have the gadget. That's called free trade. Everything sold operates under that idea, including labor.

Any employer decides how much you add to his profit and pays wages accordingly. If you are being paid less than your skills are worth on the open market, get another job. If you don't think you are making enough money, acquire new skills. I learned computer skills when I wanted a better job. Excel, Word, Access. And I got a better job because my skills were of use to my boss. But when the government gets involved and fixes market prices, the market system gets damaged.

Now, why is that important today? Because the children running this country are Marxists. Marxism is based on the idea that there are oppressors and oppressed. If you work for a company, they are oppressing you. You wage is based on your skills. But Marxism says it should be based on how much money the owner makes and you are entitled to a share. Marxism exists based on the worst human qualities. Greed and envy. You have more than me. I am entitled to my share of what you have just because. Doesn't matter how hard you worked to achieve success. Or how little I worked. Greed and envy says you have to share the wealth with me.

How often do you hear these days "we just want the wealthy or the corporations to pay their fair share"? Well, what's your fair share of what I earn? But that's a pretty easy sell to a nation that has been slowly converted to beggars dependent on taxpayers handing over their wealth to them so they can live without working.

The Marxists believe employers are obligated to follow their rules, even if it bankrupts them. Which is usually does. But our system, the best system ever invented works pretty well. The market controls the flow of goods. Prices are controlled by supply and demand. Demand being the magic word. Make a poor product, or charge too much and it won't sell. Make good stuff and it will.

It's not anybody's job to supply you with goods without making money. If they don't make money, they have no incentive to produce and sell goods. Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations said this:

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”

So this is why we are so alarmed at the constant pressure to adopt Marxist ideas. CRT is Marxism rebundled. Oppressed and oppressors. Bernie Sanders is a Marxist. Most of the democrat/communist party are Marxist now. It's the constant mantra from them. 

So when you hear their talking points, look for the Marxist ideas buried in there. And remember, Karl Marx was a bum who never worked but lived off the support of his friends. He was a horrible person, but his ideas have thrived because greed and envy never go out of fashion.

So that's it. Keep praying for Kevin and Linda. I am.