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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Posted by Jay Tea
Published: July 2, 2011 - 7:00 AM
OK, to call this a "solution" to unemployment is a bit of oversell, but it
certainly will help. And it's drawn directly from Obama's own words and
beliefs.
Remember the Joe The Plumber incident? If you need a reminder, here are
Obama's own words expounding on his economic theories.
"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure
that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance at success, too.
.. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up,
it's gonna be good for everybody. If you've got a plumbing business, you're
gonna be better off [...] if you've got a whole bunch of customers who can
afford to hire you, and right now everybody's so pinched that business is
bad for everybody and I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good
for everybody."
Spread the wealth around. Share the wealth. Spread the money around. Sounds
like it could work out, if done properly.
Such as, say, cutting the minimum wage.
Not by a lot. Say, about 10%, from $7.25 to $6.50. That's still pretty
decent, considering the demands of most minimum-wage jobs. And if it's cut
10%, that means that for every 9 employees currently making minimum wage, we
could have 10 for the same payroll.
And let's be honest -- unemployment tends to hit the people at the bottom of
the economic strata hardest. Increasing the number of minimum-wage jobs at
a time when unemployment is over 9% will at least help a little towards
getting people back to work.
It's at least as likely to help as the infamous stimulus package. Remember
those projections of what unemployment would be with and without the
stimulus? When you add in the actual unemployment figures, it is well above
both lines.
We've tried the best ideas the left has, and it's gone nowhere. Unless, of
course, you actually buy into the "we kept things from getting so, so much
worse!" argument -- that's the perfect political excuse, as it is utterly
unverifiable. No, it's much more honest to look at that chart, look at what
the Democrats promised would happen, and what really happened.
So why not give this one a try? |
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