Whoosh! Adam Smith supported government intervention. Defense of free markets i not socialism.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Dick Williams <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2026 6:05 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Government finally sees the problem..... External Message: Use Caution Not Adam Smith but plenty of former capitalist on IBM-main. Funny how that works. People who regularly swear by capitalism, suddenly wanting government to stop the capitalist because it came for them. If you look at most of the rest of the world, social democracies are not only better for the majority, their quality of life is far better. Higher taxes are offset by free healthcare, free education, better infrastructure, more paid time off, maternity time off for both the mother and father. I’ve been to many of those countries. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, & others. It’s better there. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, June 15, 2026, 8:11 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: Adam Smith is a socialist now? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Dick Williams <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2026 12:14 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Government finally sees the problem..... External Message: Use Caution This is hilarious. You guys used to be huge capitalists. Now that capitalism has come for you, suddenly socialism is looking better. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, May 29, 2026, 4:08 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: Also, the rules should allow an H1B employee to change jobs without penalty if he is not being paid the prevailing wage, there are unhealthy working conditions or there are unsafe working conditions. That would make some of the unenforced legal provisions self policing. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2026 10:59 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Government finally sees the problem..... External Message: Use Caution On Thu, 28 May 2026 14:08:22 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: >The following was sent to me from the Indiana Attorney General's >office: > >"...is leading a coalition of 13 states in support of a U.S. >Department of Labor proposed rule to raise prevailing wage >requirements for foreign workers in the H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, and >PERM programs. The change aims to better protect American jobs, >wages, and working conditions from the displacement and wage >arbitrage caused by the current H-1B system." > .... I agree. I'd agree even more strongly if it were scrubbed of nationalism. Equal pay for equal work should apply alike regardless of demographics. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
