Sultan Knish
The working class in the United States has no better champion than
Barack Obama. Like most champions of the working class, he has never
actually worked at a real job and instead divided his time between
academia, non-profits and politics which explains his current work ethic
in which he tries to get a speech in between every two vacations..
The
progressive law professors, who are currently the only thing standing
between the working class and the abyss, at least according to other
progressive professors, not only haven’t worked for a living, but don't
know what working for a living entails and don't even understand the
concept. Other things that they don't understand include personal
responsibility, consequences, elementary arithmetic and human free will.
That
last one never fails to throw them for a loop. No sooner do they pass
some comprehensive plan intended to ameliorate a terrible problem then
they discover that the working people have made a hash out of it. But
they never despair because they are certain that there is no progressive
solution that cannot be fixed by an even more comprehensive progressive
solution.
ObamaCare isn't working? Go Single Payer? There are no
more doctors? Outlaw illness. People are still getting sick? Fine them
for sabotaging progressive medicine. Like the island whose colonial
overlords tried to solve their rat problem by dropping snakes only to
discover that it now had a snake problem, progressives always have
solutions. The trouble is that they never understand the problem.
The
protectors of the working class, currently presiding over a country
where over 90 million adults are not in the workforce, keep dropping
snakes on the island without ever figuring out why so many people are
dying of snakebites. B.O. or Before Obama, 63 percent of working age
Americans had jobs. Today it's 58 percent. And Obama is trying to see if
he can drop the country below the 50 mark.
The latest snake that
Obama is trying to drop on the island is a minimum wage hike. A minimum
wage hike sounds like a great idea to a progressive professor who, like
Marie Antoinette, wonders why the poor can't just eat cake during a
bread shortage. If the poor aren't making enough money, just raise their
salaries. If their salaries go up, they'll have more money and the
government will be able to spend more money creating jobs that it can
then tax using a magic perpetual motion machine.
The first
casualty of the minimum wage hike will be some 500,000 jobs. While just
19 percent of the minimum wage increase will go to those below the
poverty line, the same isn't true of that 500,000. The most disposable
workers also tend to be the poorest in the new economy. They are the
first ones out the door when a small business comes up against the
ObamaCare employer mandate or a minimum wage hike. It doesn't take much
to push them out from full time to part time and from part time to the
unemployment line and from the unemployment line to permanent
unemployment.
Purge six figures worth of workers and suddenly
income inequality becomes an even bigger problem that the Harvard and
Yale Friends of the Working Class can use to run for reelection. It
doesn't occur to progressive professors slash community organizers that
the living standard of the poor is not defined by an infographic
comparing their income to Bill Gates' spectacles budget or George Soros'
villain lair complete with lasers and piranhas.
It isn't even defined by their salary, but by the buying power of that salary.
A
salary is just a number. It was once possible to buy a meal for a dime
and a politician for a hundred dollars. Today dinner with a politician
will cost you that hundred and the politician may cost you a hundred
thousand.
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