Will Sarah Palin be elected President of the US in 2012?

[Watchman]

Yes, most of the wealthy profit by their labor and the labor of others - others they gave employment to. So I think gaining profit from other people when you gave them jobs is fair.

That's an interesting way to word it - as if they were doing some kind of favour, rather than renting human labour in order to have a working, productive business.

It's a mutually beneficial exchange (one hopes), but hardly an equal one - the employee, after all, does not on his own have more to put on the bargaining table than his ability to work. Proletariat and all, you know.

I never said only hard working and successful people are rich. Certainly there are people like Paris Hilton, people who didn't earn their money, who inherited it. But someone's got to provide capital to banks for loans, don't they?

Given that the banks *pay* people for keeping their money (through interest and whatnots), which they can then make use of...

Perhaps I confused you two.

Now that's just rude.

[Husar]

This thread basically calls for this old link.

I was breastfed for a long time by the way, you can draw your own conclusions...

If Sarah Palin is held to the same standard as everyone else and more than half the nation thinks she is really stupid then I doubt she'll get elected. I haven't really seen a lot from her so I don't really have an opinion but her reputation hurries/runs ahead of her as we say here so I'm a bit prejudiced against her I guess.

On the topic of employers and employees, it all depends on the job market IMO, in a situation where jobs are scarce and the unemployed are many, employees get the short end of the stick, if it's reversed then employers will try to lure employees with bonuses and higher wages. The current situation here is such that the minimum wage of the US would probably equal a 100% pay increase for some...and they call us commies...