>>So you've abandoned this fiction of yours that bosses are no more powerful than their employees. Progress! Try to hire and keep a worker first - a programmer, an engineer, any good worker. You'll see it's harder than you think.
>> Hardly likely to result in the husband ending up without health insurance, or needed medicine, or enough money to pay for food and shelter. The stakes just aren't as high. That was just an example. Home, kids, sex etc. do matter for many, but if it's just a matter of high stakes - you may always make up another example equal to job loss for you or for me. I can't believe the job loss is what you fear the most.
>> Because it is an attempt to intimidate people into changing their vote. Well, Surprise then! It is the norm for thousands of years ;) I recommend Roman history to explore the issue.
Yet the political freedom is enjoyed by pretty much everyone because the only and the main thing everybody learned is not to take an election bullshit too serious.
>> Got some recent examples of Democratic employers demanding that all their workers take an unpaid day off to campaign for Obama? We were strongly "asked" to participate some meetings with some Dem people when I was working at the community college. I didn't give a shit though, but the rest were scared to loose their jobs - that was fun to watch, like back to USSR ;)
>> Of course it does. The threat is not overt... ...and thus empty. Q.E.D.
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Date: 20/10/12 19:58 (UTC)Try to hire and keep a worker first - a programmer, an engineer, any good worker. You'll see it's harder than you think.
>> Hardly likely to result in the husband ending up without health insurance, or needed medicine, or enough money to pay for food and shelter. The stakes just aren't as high.
That was just an example. Home, kids, sex etc. do matter for many, but if it's just a matter of high stakes - you may always make up another example equal to job loss for you or for me. I can't believe the job loss is what you fear the most.
>> Because it is an attempt to intimidate people into changing their vote.
Well, Surprise then!
It is the norm for thousands of years ;)
I recommend Roman history to explore the issue.
Yet the political freedom is enjoyed by pretty much everyone because the only and the main thing everybody learned is not to take an election bullshit too serious.
>> Got some recent examples of Democratic employers demanding that all their workers take an unpaid day off to campaign for Obama?
We were strongly "asked" to participate some meetings with some Dem people when I was working at the community college.
I didn't give a shit though, but the rest were scared to loose their jobs - that was fun to watch, like back to USSR ;)
>> Of course it does. The threat is not overt...
...and thus empty. Q.E.D.