[Rhodes22-list] Reduce your CODB for personal monetary gains

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As you businessmen know, a major part of the cost of doing business is the interference of government in the contract between the employer and employee.  Other than necessary safety rules, government should stay out of that contract.  They drive up prices, drive businesses out of states or the country as a whole and gum up the system.  Unions lobbied the feds for years for "benefits".  Now that most of those benefits are laws, the people don't want to join unions and pay them for benefits that are mandated by law, and the unions whine (I am a 28 year union member so I am not anti-union).
Maryland is currently doing their best to destroy Walmart.  The idea that a company has to "give back" to the community is nonsense.  You pay for a product or service (like a Rhodes 22) and you get the product or service.  The only other obligations the company should have is to pay the prevailing wage (which is whatever the market will bear) pay their taxes and clean up after themselves (enter the government).  If there are benefits to be had, then it should be a part of the collective bargaining process or the competition for labor.  Some regulation is necessary to prevent environmental dumping, inherently unsafe products (this has been carried too far too) or products that do what they are supposed to do etc.  Otherwise the government needs to step out and do what the Constitution allows.  That goes for the States too.  However; if the feds follow the Constitution and don't interfere, the States can do what they want.  If they go too far, the citizens can vote their will there o
r as one President put it, "vote with their feet".

Philip

 

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com> 

> everyone ( and congress people ) please listen to Brad and even Bill on 
> this one - stan/gbi 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brad Haslett" 
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:03 AM 
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Reduce your CODB for personal monetary gains 
> 
> 
> > Warren, 
> > 
> > The issue for us is not cheap labor, it is labor period. They are there 
> > and 
> > willing to work. You don't see locals lined up at Home Depot at five am 
> > looking for a job. We pay the prevailing labor wage, now $15 per hour, 
> > because they demand it. My brother, who is the real brains of the 
> > company, 
> > is used to working in a union environment. In Illinois, unskilled labor 
> > gets $30 per hour plus benefits. No problem, you just build the cost into 
> > the job and pass it on to the customer. No doubt there are some abusing 
> > employers out there, but any one with half a brain for business treats 
> > their 
> > employees well, legal or not. We operate on the Louis Haslett principle 
> > (my 
> > father), don't ask a man to do something you wouldn't do yourself. We 
> > just 
> > hired another full time local and are always on the lookout for more who 
> > show on time, sober, and are not looking for a workmans comp injury. You 
> > wouldn't believe how difficult finding a good empoyee can be. 
> > 
> > Brad 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 6/28/06, Bill Effros wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Your point is well taken, Warren. 
> >> 
> >> The country votes with its credit cards, and it is taking its credit 
> >> cards to Wal-Mart despite the fact that Wal-Mart is killing all the 
> >> American businesses by hiring illegals, importing everything, and 
> >> teaching its employees how to free load their medical bills off the 
> >> taxpayer supported system. 
> >> 
> >> Everyone likes to talk a good game, but when it comes to their own 
> >> money, other people's jobs are just another cost of doing business. 
> >> 
> >> Bill Effros 
> >> 
> >> Foy, Warren wrote: 
> >> > CODB "cost of doing business" 
> >> > 
> >> > Note Subject line change: 
> >> > Was "Reduce your federal income tax (political humor)" 
> >> > 
> >> > Brad wrote: 
> >> > 
> >> > "It pisses me off every time I go to an ATM or call a phone tree and it 
> >> > asks 
> >> > whether I want English or Spanish." 
> >> > 
> >> > Amen Brad. 
> >> > 
> >> > However, your dream implies that you are willing to support such a 
> >> > necessity whether they are illegal or not. In your "dream", how did 
> >> > you 
> >> > pay your immigrant labor? Cash, Check, minimal cash with promises of 
> >> > additional work? If by check, do you expect them to use a bank or do 
> >> > you also own a check cashing service so that you can get your 20% back? 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > -----Original Message----- 
> >> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org 
> >> > [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Brad Haslett 
> >> > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:13 PM 
> >> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list 
> >> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political 
> >> > humor) 
> >> > 
> >> > Bill, 
> >> > 
> >> > It pisses me off every time I go to an ATM or call a phone tree and it 
> >> > asks 
> >> > whether I want English or Spanish. That being said, most cabbies in 
> >> > Beijing 
> >> > are torqued over having to learn english for the 2008 Olympics. Here 
> >> > is 
> >> > an 
> >> > interesting perspective on native language. BTW, I've ordered the 
> >> > Spanish 
> >> > for Contractors CD for the boys on the beach. 
> >> > 
> >> > Brad 
> >> > 
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