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Power of Capitalism

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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 serve