Re: AMERICAN CONTRACT

[BILL MITCHELL <ECWFM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John: hate to but in on your _american_ contract:
	
>                The Minimum Wage shall be raised each year to reflect
> 	gains in worker productivity overall, including gains due
>	to automation and robotics, and to reflect the value to
>	the political economy of citizen military forces whose
>	individual valor and sacrifice is the foundation of all
>	democratic government.

But...is the citizen military forces the army etc.?  What value to the
political economy does the individual valour and sacrifice of the army
contribute?

How is having a brave army provide the foundation for democratic government?
Might is right - is that it? The only contributions i can think of  are helping
disaster relief efforts (hardly an example of individual valour etc) and being
part of an institution that receives massive doses of government spending.

I wonder if the people in Granada or Iraq or Vietnam thought much of the
democratic foundations of the US army.

kind regards
bill
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