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BacardiJim · 01-31-2004, 10:58 AM

You're right, Dom. It was an exaggeration, but I thought it might drive home the point. And there is no way in hell that the government (either federal or state) is going to change the law so long as the food service industry can afford to lobby legislators and food/beverage service workers can't really come up with any political/economic leverage of their own. This is America, where wealth makes right. Maybe things should be different, but it isn't going to happen. Don't punish the exploited by condemning them for participating in the exploitive system when there is so much unemployment in the US.

And it did, in fact, take strikes and a "revolution" to change the laws in the two states that changed them.

01-31-2004, 10:58 AM	#43
BacardiJim Banned User Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,346	You're right, Dom. It was an exaggeration, but I thought it might drive home the point. And there is no way in hell that the government (either federal or state) is going to change the law so long as the food service industry can afford to lobby legislators and food/beverage service workers can't really come up with any political/economic leverage of their own. This is America, where wealth makes right. Maybe things should be different, but it isn't going to happen. Don't punish the exploited by condemning them for participating in the exploitive system when there is so much unemployment in the US. And it did, in fact, take strikes and a "revolution" to change the laws in the two states that changed them. __________________ Time flies like the wind; Fruit flies like bananas.