From: Gary Britt 



Geo. wrote:
> You've lost me. You wanted to get people to work harder, I suggested tax
> free overtime, how does that have anything to do with unions?

Nothing other than what I wrote.  Similar short sighted ideas.

>
> If you want to build wealth, you have to make it easy to get started.
> Everyone can't start their own business (you can't have 300 million one
> man companies)

And its this kind of thinking that keeps people poor.  One of my clients is
a foreign permanent resident who speaks with an accent (his country of
origin is Iran).  He is of only average intelligence, no college degrees,
and nothing but the shirt on his back.  He's now a multi-millionaire who
built his entire fortune from selling vacuum cleaners door to door.  That's
still his principal business.  If he can do it, many many people can.  They
just have to be willing to do what he did at first.  Work 12 hours a day 7
days a week for little money, live in an apartment with no furniture at all
and keep pouring money and effort back into the business.  People worried
about 40 hours and week and overtime aren't willing to defer gratification
and take the risks to become wealthy in this country and then they bitch as
though its somebody else's fault they aren't rich.


> so you need a way for the work force to build wealth to

There are plenty of ways.  See above.  It just takes belief, courage, and
the willingness to delay gratification today for only a chance at big
rewards later.

> get ahead enough so that they have money earning them more money. How
> you going to do that Gary?

Bullcrap see above story.  He had NO MONEY and didn't have any friends or
relatives within 8000 miles or more.

>
> Your build wealth by standing on the backs of the workers is the same
> bullshit we've tried for years, it works for the few and the rest
> suffer.

It works for the few because only a few are willing to do what it takes to
make it work.  The rest suffer from negative thinking and a lack of
commitment.  An unwillingness to take risks and believe in themselves.  An
unwillingness to delay gratification today for rewards later.


> This is not a solution for a country, it's a recipe for creating
> the elite.
>


Its actually a recipe for creating greater prosperity for everyone,
including those who just want the job and 40 hours a week, compared to any
other system.  All other systems lead to everyone being equally miserable
and equally poor.

Your bitching has been around since before Marx, and it hasn't made a
single union worker rich ever in any country yet.


Gary

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