Saturday, September 07, 2013
It is becoming more apparent that Liberals actually hate
job creation. As if crafting fiscal policies that stifle economic growth and
discourage job growth weren’t enough, they feel it is necessary to actively
protest one of the few sectors of the economy that is actually growing: low
paid, unskilled, retail and service jobs.
OUR Wal-Mart, an affiliate of the United Food and
Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), held a series of protests last
week against Wal-Mart’s “unlivable” wages. Of course, hardly anyone showed up.
(Although, compared to recent Organizing For America events it looked like a
million man march.) According to David Tovar, Wal-Mart’s Vice President of
Corporate Communications, less than one-tenth of the company’s 1.3 million
employees took part in the “protests.” I guess that means there are potentially
50 new job openings at the retail giant.
The Wal-Mart walkouts (or . . . um . . . attempted
walkouts) followed a recent series of protests aimed at shaming fast food
restaurants into raising their hourly wages. Such demands, after all, make
sense in the minds of Liberals: Of course a person flipping 99 cent hamburgers
deserves $15 per hour!
But back to our point about Liberals hating job creation:
According to the August Jobs report we have finally achieved something in the
Obama-economy that has been elusive and evasive since the conception of
Obamacare. . . Full Time positions were actually created! And in what sectors
were these elusive full time positions created? In the “lowest paid” sectors.
In other words: At Wal-Mart, McDonalds, etc.
Exactly the places the UFCW and other Lefties are
picketing.
The trend highlights a disturbing trend in both
American’s understanding of work, and the overall economic conditions of the
good ole’ USA. It seems highly improbable that the majority of full time “low
paid” positions are being given to up-and-coming entrants to the work force. In
fact, it is seeming more likely as Obama’s great recovery drags on, with
penetrative devastation to our economy, that skilled labor is having to settle
for less than optimal employment opportunities.
And there is a reason that these low-skilled and low-paid
jobs are offering full time employment: The low wage allows employers to
appropriate excess capital to the required benefits that laws such as Obamacare
will soon mandate. What the UFCW and leftists world-wide seem incapable of
grasping, is the concept that such a low-paid job is not designed to be a
career. A position at a Wal-Mart, or a McDonalds, should be a stepping stone to
something greater. Such a position is not designed to produce a “livable” wage,
because it is not designed as a lifelong pursuit, or a 40 year investment of
time and labor. Such a position is, by its very nature, a position that should
offer new entrants to the workforce an opportunity for experience and resume
building. It should not be the ambition of any American to work as a hamburger
flipper for fifteen years – regardless of their ability to earn a livable wage.
Unfortunately, in Obama’s America, the opportunities for
career minded individuals seems to be diminishing. As firms engage in
“temporary” hiring, “contract” hiring, and part time hiring, careers are slowly
being turned into lucrative “jobs” that offer employees a resume enhancer while
prepping them for very little. The once praised action of engaging in a
lifelong career, is being slowly eradicated by Labor laws, Obamacare
regulations, and the anemic “recovery” that looks an awful lot like a recession
continued.
And now, as America struggles to produce some sort of
real job market recovery, Leftists are choosing to picket the few employers
that are unafraid to offer full time work – albeit at entry level wages.
It seems to merely be more proof that the Left hates Job
creation. . . Or they have a fundamental ignorance of free market economics.
Either option should disqualify their altruistic impulse to engineer our
economy into their economic vision.
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