{"id":3943,"date":"2019-03-09T21:29:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T03:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2019-04-24T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:28:54","slug":"mandate-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3943","title":{"rendered":"MANDATE MINIMUM WAGE ? ? ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mandate minimum wage and you mandate inflation (minimum inflation, then maximum inflation).<\/p>\n<p>Mandating minimum wage is in direct conflict with capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Mandating minimum wage leads to socialism&#8212;it is socialism.<\/p>\n<p>Any government that can mandate minimum wage can also mandate maximum wage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you&#8217;ve got.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is it any wonder that those who clamor for mandating minimum wage by the government, also clamor for the government taking more money <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">from<\/span> the wealthy in taxes, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for <\/span> the poor in handouts.<\/p>\n<p>Socialism doesn&#8217;t work&#8212;it never has&#8212;it never will&#8212;it will not work in the United States, even if the people vote for politicians who vote for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as the people [fifty-one percent] realize they can vote handouts for themselves from the public treasury, the great experiment of America is over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our father who art in Washington, give us this day our daily bread.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where we are&#8212;the pot of water with the frog is already too hot for the frog to jump out, so the heat can be turned up faster now&#8212;and that explains why so many politicians positioning for power can propose anything drastic and be cheered on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And, going straight to the bottom line, understood by the founding fathers of this country, &#8220;This form of government will work only for a moral people; it is totally inadequate for any other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those Americans, those true Americans, who still know that moral compass from 250 years ago, from 2000 years ago, from 3500 years ago, can still make a difference for America.<\/p>\n<p>But it will be hard&#8212;harder than anything American patriots who believe in the God of the Bible have ever faced before.<\/p>\n<p>It was a small percentage of Americans who won the Revolutionary War and founded the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It is a small percentage of Americans today who have already jumped out of the comfortable, safe, warm pot of apathy and apostasy and abomination, and are ready to sacrifice whatever it takes to speak out against the horde of evils invading at all levels.<\/p>\n<p>Hardly a person remains who says they can&#8217;t see what&#8217;s happening to this country, nationally and locally, but very few are willing to change their lifestyle and take action.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a part of that small percentage, then decide today that you will say something to the people you know, about turning to God and praying and reading their Bibles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ask people if they know Jesus, and explain that He is the only One Who can save them.<\/p>\n<p>And that is how it works that He is the only One Who can save America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandate minimum wage and you mandate inflation (minimum inflation, then maximum inflation). Mandating minimum wage is in direct conflict with capitalism. Mandating minimum wage leads to socialism&#8212;it is socialism. Any government that can mandate minimum wage can also mandate maximum wage. &#8220;Any government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}