“Where Does Greed Stop?” -Ted Kennedy
Posted in Politics/Economics, World on January 26th, 2007
We need more of this…
“We have now had amendments that have been worth over 200 billion dollars… Amendments that have been offered. We’ve had amendments on education of 35 billion dollars. We’ve had health-savings amendments that will benefit people with average incomes of $112,000… We’ve had those kinds of amendments and we’re looking at the Kyl amendment at 3 billion dollars. But we still cannot get two dollars and fifteen cents — over two years. Over two years!
“What is the price, we ask the other side? What is the price that you want from these working men and women? What cost? How much more do we have to give to the private sector and to business? How many billion dollars more, are you asking, are you requiring?
“When does the greed stop, we ask the other side? That’s the question and that’s the issue.”
Scott says:
Not sure of your point here. Who is greedy? Minimum wage setting has nothing to do with greed. It is an absurd policy whose relevance has gone the way of the labor union.
People are paid by the economic value they add.
Feb 16, 2007 @ 3:21 pm
Rio Flores says:
Senator Kennedy was referring to the Republican desire to attach corporate tax cuts to the minimum wage bill. He was arguing that corporations have already had so many tax cuts that his fellow representatives shouldn’t be so eager to hand over even more money, and hence his question: “Where does greed stop?”
Feb 21, 2007 @ 4:04 pm
Matt says:
The greed certainly doesn’t stop with the Kennedy family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbDwbUZar0o
What is the point of listening to all of these fools that preach do as I say and not as I do.
Apr 24, 2008 @ 2:33 pm