Power of Capitalism

Little incursions on your liberties because people paying you to do a job FOR THEM have decided they have the right to make decisions on your personal life in return for a paycheck. Pee in a bottle. Watch what you say online. Don't use contraceptives. Don't associate with the wrong people. Everything we created this country to protect us from governmental intrusions is now blown away by the boss...for the right to earn a living that isn't even a living anymore. The trend is obvious.

This was written in the heat of the moment over the Hobby Lobby case. But the more pernicious and frequent complaints that come from the uninformed is the controversy over drug testing welfare recipients. To which I must respond:
Poverty, nor going to work for less compensation than you're worth, are not probable cause in and of themselves. Because labor in the private sector has been under attack the past 40 years, and not fought back doesn't mean the public good is served by chipping away those rights that protect the rest of us. We help no one by further degrading the most vulnerable among us.
Unions should have seen this coming. Working for a paycheck does not give them the right to invade the rest of your private life. It only does when you, or "we" , willingly hand over those rights. I didn't, yet it has become the norm. And you think we can solve the problems the "job creators" caused by making poor people pee in a cup? They already got everything they wanted. Lower wages, lower taxes, more wealth, not trickling, but GUSHING up, and they're still able to convince you that it's poor people that are the problem and need to be harassed at every turn for the crime of being poor?
The people that aren't under threat of this invasion of their most private considerations are hanging out in country clubs, getting bombed on premium spirits, and doing lines in the bathrooms. The worst drug offenders (and the ones profiting the most from the drug trade, legal or not) are not lining up to collect food stamps. Shame on you for this distasteful and irrational distraction.


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