Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 13, 2015

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    Argythree  over 8 years ago

    At least his assistant didn’t schedule him to run for President…

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    mr_sherman Premium Member over 8 years ago

    The only reason CEO’s don’t like slavery is they’re morally bound to house and feed them.

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    Kind&Kinder  over 8 years ago

    Even billions can’t buy you some things. But it seems you can promise some amazingly awful things if you’re in the market for a country. But maybe the owners won’t sell!

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    Varnes  over 8 years ago

    Bruno, no it’s called minimum wage….

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    Varnes  over 8 years ago

    Pretty sure he isn’t a Democratic voter……

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    Varnes  over 8 years ago

    But President Clinton will fix everything, …..

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    Nebulous Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I am also upset that a good lawyer can’t find a way to legalize turning CEOs into slaves.

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    Radical_Knight  over 8 years ago

    I haven’t really figured out the moral difference between slavery and indentured domestic service in marriage.

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    whiteheron  over 8 years ago

    She wants to buy a pool with her Christmas bonus.

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    OldGuy1896  over 8 years ago

    The obvious sequel is the boss realizes he just needs to become a BANKER.

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    nosirrom  over 8 years ago

    I’m a slave.A slave to my stomach.I try to explain to it how hard it is for me to buy the food, prepare it and clean up afterwards.But it doesn’t care. It say that it owns me and if I want to continue to live I have to do its bidding.

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    i_am_the_jam  over 8 years ago

    I guess he’s never heard of Unpaid Interns™. :P

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    Q4horse  over 8 years ago

    Slavery is both legal and constitutional in the US if it is imposed as a sentence for a convicted crime. The US only banned birthright slavery. There is the loophole. Can I be that guys new lawyer now?

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    kittenpah  over 8 years ago

    Economically, the Walmart employment model costs them less than owning slaves. Slaves receive food, shelter, and rudimentary healthcare. You can’t get all three working for Walmart.

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    dabugger  over 8 years ago

    If it is a ‘right to work state’ there is slavery.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Slavery not legal?You don’t know the new “jobs act” here in Italy approved by our governement and parliament

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    NRHAWK Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Defacto slavery only ended this year in the United States when all businesses big and small were required to pay their managers hourly instead of salary. Prior to this emancipation middle and lower managers were forced to work ungodly hours in order keep their jobs which resulted in a great many of them actually only earning minimum wages or in many cases less when broken down to hours. We must always be vigilant to greed and avarice in the coporate world or they will enslave us to the company store which as many of us old farts remember happening to us or our parents all those years ago before the trades unions freed us.

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    Thinkerer  over 8 years ago

    cf. “Private prison management”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#In_the_United_States

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    GiantShetlandPony  over 8 years ago

    Haven’t they?

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    wiatr  over 8 years ago

    Sounds like the mentality of the last place I had a regular job. Considering the number of people who died whilst still employed or just after they retired I feel pretty lucky to have been thrown out.

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    reynard61  over 8 years ago

    I always wondered why corporate law has such a high turnover rate…

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    route66paul  over 8 years ago

    What I stated was that while some was “indentured servitude”, many Irish were slaves. They were vassals of English overlords, who had life and death rights over them. If the overlord thought the land was better for raising sheep, he sold his vassals into slavery and they ended up in the new world, working usually growing and processing sugar cane. They figured out that the Irish slaves were not good enough(they kept dying) and then imported Africans, mostly men. They were given Irish women, the planters thought this would make better workers. All of these slaves were beaten and treated much the same, black and white.Indentured servants, were just that, servants, usually brough over by wealthy lords’ sons(possably third and forth sons that would not inherit), so they could make it in the new world. These servants were usually a step above the prisoners that came over as slaves. The term “slaves” is now used to mean only Africans, trying to show that these “planters” were more humane. Indentured servitude also is used to describe those who were in debtors’ prison, which put them into servitude until the debts were paid off. In practice, those debts got paid off when the “planter” couldn’t get enough work out of them and did not want to feed them anymore.Many did escape this slavery and became what we now call pirates or pirates’ women and lived in towns that hand no flag. These were the first free men in the new world. They did work hard and many just traded masters. Make no mistake, there were many white slaves in the Americas, only later did England send their outcasts to Australia.Slavery was outlawed by the British first, and the US did not import slaves after 1810(or so). Slavery in the US was African, but there were many white slaves in the Americas, Indentured servants are another story.

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    Tarredandfeathered  over 8 years ago

    I think that’s the Republikkkan Campaign Platform.

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    Tarredandfeathered  over 8 years ago

    Well, it doesn’t become Full Blown slavery until you take out your first “Payday Loan” or “Car Title Loan”.

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