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The Truth About the Republican Jobs Agenda
REPUBLICANS OPPOSE JOBS BILLS. They make whatever excuses seem expedient at a given moment, but the fact is they have no interest in helping to create jobs. The Republican agenda depends on a continuing scarcity of opportunities. Republicans know that trickle down economics doesn't work, and that making the wealthy wealthier does not motivate them to create jobs. They know that making the wealthy wealthier mostly results in hording in offshore accounts, and obscenely ostentatious self-indulgences. Trickle down isn't just a failed economic theory, it's a red herring.
REPUBLICANS KNOW THERE ARE FAR MORE PEOPLE SEEKING JOBS THAN THERE ARE JOBS AVAILABLE, BUT THEY DON'T SEE THAT AS A PROBLEM. THEY SEE IT AS A SOLUTION. Not only do they not care about the suffering of those who want but cannot find work, they depend on that suffering, and intentionally exacerbate it. That is why they also oppose government spending to benefit the long-term unemployed. Republican antipathy to paying taxes isn't only about avarice, it is about ensuring that there aren't enough public resources available to alleviate those economically suffering.
REPUBLICANS OPPOSE INCREASING THE MINIMUM WAGE. They want even the employed to know economic want. Republicans oppose workplace safety regulations, and they want to destroy unions. They want workers completely subject to the whims of management, and unable to quit lousy jobs because there are no good alternatives and there is no social safety net to protect them. Under the Republican agenda, workers have to do what they're told or suffer even worse consequences.
The Republican agenda is to keep people desperate for work, with more people seeking jobs than can find them, with no laws or other forms of assistance or protection for those who can find jobs, and no safety net for those who can't. Lack of opportunity ensures a glutted labor market, which drives down wages, forcing many of even those who do find work to seek more because they are underemployed. Exhausting hours, inadequate pay, and broken unions ensure that workers are hungry and tired and incapable of defending themselves.
If you can't see that this the case, I hope you will open your eyes a little wider. Listen a little more carefully. And it will come together for you -- you will see.
For more see: Lawrence Lewis, Daily KOS.
The Truth About the Republican Jobs Agenda
REPUBLICANS OPPOSE JOBS BILLS. They make whatever excuses seem expedient at a given moment, but the fact is they have no interest in helping to create jobs. The Republican agenda depends on a continuing scarcity of opportunities. Republicans know that trickle down economics doesn't work, and that making the wealthy wealthier does not motivate them to create jobs. They know that making the wealthy wealthier mostly results in hording in offshore accounts, and obscenely ostentatious self-indulgences. Trickle down isn't just a failed economic theory, it's a red herring.
REPUBLICANS KNOW THERE ARE FAR MORE PEOPLE SEEKING JOBS THAN THERE ARE JOBS AVAILABLE, BUT THEY DON'T SEE THAT AS A PROBLEM. THEY SEE IT AS A SOLUTION. Not only do they not care about the suffering of those who want but cannot find work, they depend on that suffering, and intentionally exacerbate it. That is why they also oppose government spending to benefit the long-term unemployed. Republican antipathy to paying taxes isn't only about avarice, it is about ensuring that there aren't enough public resources available to alleviate those economically suffering.
REPUBLICANS OPPOSE INCREASING THE MINIMUM WAGE. They want even the employed to know economic want. Republicans oppose workplace safety regulations, and they want to destroy unions. They want workers completely subject to the whims of management, and unable to quit lousy jobs because there are no good alternatives and there is no social safety net to protect them. Under the Republican agenda, workers have to do what they're told or suffer even worse consequences.
The Republican agenda is to keep people desperate for work, with more people seeking jobs than can find them, with no laws or other forms of assistance or protection for those who can find jobs, and no safety net for those who can't. Lack of opportunity ensures a glutted labor market, which drives down wages, forcing many of even those who do find work to seek more because they are underemployed. Exhausting hours, inadequate pay, and broken unions ensure that workers are hungry and tired and incapable of defending themselves.
If you can't see that this the case, I hope you will open your eyes a little wider. Listen a little more carefully. And it will come together for you -- you will see.
For more see: Lawrence Lewis, Daily KOS.