Liberalism, a Job-Killing Machine
Posted on | September 23, 2013 | 25 Comments
“The problem isn’t just ObamaCare, though. It’s the entire regulatory assault on employers coming out of Washington — everything from the EEOC” — the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hits companies hard when employees claim age, race or sex discrimination — ”to the Dodd-Frank monstrosity. Employers are living in a state of fear.”
— Bob Funk, Express Employment Services
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September 23rd, 2013 @ 8:33 am
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September 23rd, 2013 @ 8:33 am
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September 23rd, 2013 @ 8:38 am
Just part of the road map to Neo-Feudalism … a society where the serfs are dependent upon the ruling class for everything, bereft of any rights except the right to die for their ‘betters’ …
September 23rd, 2013 @ 8:46 am
Yep. We focus way too much on taxes (which isn’t to say that they’re not a problem) instead of various other burdens. Individually, they may be small (though they certainly aren’t all small), but an uncountable number of paper cuts kill you just the same.
September 23rd, 2013 @ 8:52 am
One of the points I’ve tried to make with everyone who seem to think we can reverse America’s decline; we would have to have the Presidency and majorities in the House and Senate and THEN we would have to roll back every EO and law passed in the last 40 years to even begin to return the US to the economic powerhouse and fountainhead of jobs and innovation that it used to be.
That just isn’t going to happen and it can’t happen overnight because it took longer to create this mess. And a rule of thumb I’ve used for cleanups is that it will take at least half the time for a cleanup that was taken to make the mess and that’s just clearing away the detritus and filth. That doesn’t count any rebuilding or replacements.
I mostly blame the Bushes with an extra special assist by the Clintons and Obamas for making the final splooges on the countries infrastructure, financial underpinings and giving more people the opportunity to take more of what they don’t deserve from others.
All in the name of fairness and accessibility.
September 23rd, 2013 @ 8:52 am
The cost of all gov’t. regulations on business exceeds $10,000 per employee. Yet, the worthies cannot seem to fathom that increasing the cost of creating jobs has an adverse effect on job creation. What’s worse, the average American has no clue either. The amount of economic illiteracy in this country is staggering. I recall telling an acquaintance what the cost of O-care would be on my business to the penny. His response? You’re wrong. The basis for his response? He didn’t have one beyond appealing to magic.
September 23rd, 2013 @ 9:21 am
Dodd-Frank has proven to be a complete Trojan Horse. Everything it was promised to do has not come to pass – either being stymied by special interests or tied up in bureaucratic limbo (no doubt by design, given the authors’ true constituency.)
Meanwhile it has served as a tremendous barrier to entry for new competition and burdensome weight on the existing small fry.
Again, all by design.
If this thing had Republican sponsor names on it the cries of special interests and crony capitalism from the media would be never ending.
September 23rd, 2013 @ 9:23 am
It’s not that “Employers are living in a state of fear,” but that employers are exhibiting a strong sense of caution. Employers take many things into consideration, knowns and potential unknowns, and the regulations have increased the unknowns. The more unknowns that employers face, the less likely they will be to take a chance and hire someone.
September 23rd, 2013 @ 9:28 am
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September 23rd, 2013 @ 9:28 am
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September 23rd, 2013 @ 9:55 am
I wouldn’t say the emotion is fear. It’s somewhere between apathy and despair. I work for a company with around 1000 employees. We an EEOC complaint case about once a week. Most of the time these people are career EEOC complainers and what they do is gain employment, work for a month or so and then start filing complaints. The real knee-slapper is that they get to keep working, and we keep paying them, and all the while they are our adversary. It’s a really strange relationship. Kind of reminds me of the Sheepdog and Coyote cartoons I watched as a kid. The obstacles government has put in the way of doing business eats the bottom out of our bottom line to point where there is this constant nagging worry. How long do we keep piling up sandbags at the oceans rise higher and higher?
September 23rd, 2013 @ 10:40 am
At least once a year, the politicians in Washington should have to spend a week with just an average family trying to raise a family and make ends meet. It should be mandatory. Most of those career politicians become so far removed from regular people they don’t have a clue as to what the average family goes through.
September 23rd, 2013 @ 11:15 am
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September 23rd, 2013 @ 11:43 am
I want to see politicians desperately digging for radishes like Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With The Wind.” Now that’s what I call sequestration!
September 23rd, 2013 @ 11:59 am
You’d have to repeal all the way back to the “New Deal” for just social programs alone. You would then need to put an end to crony capitalism, and I’m not sure where we would need to start with that.
September 23rd, 2013 @ 3:09 pm
And liberals are the ones running around claiming their arguments are ‘fact-based’ when they wouldn’t know a fact if it slapped them in the face.
September 23rd, 2013 @ 3:34 pm
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September 29th, 2013 @ 1:38 pm
Ladies and gentlemen,
There is a very simple solution to this problem.
As a person with a business: (1) consolidate your business, (2) reduce risk, and (3) do not invest in this economy. And the best way to do that is to reduce the number of employees you have.
As a consumer: (1) consolidate your finances to prepare for hard times, (2) reduce risk, and (3) do not invest in this economy. Money should be spent on investments, and the best investments are in emerging markets and in US multinationals that are offshoring.
The republicans-versus-democrats “debate” is not a debate at all: it’s a side-show. It means nothing. Most republicans are just as fascist as the democrats. There is no real difference. Your vote doesn’t count for anything. If you’re a sheep, it doesn’t matter if you’re eaten by wolves or by bears.
Vote with your checkbook. Who is John Galt?