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"Job Lock" ? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:43 am
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:43 am
How is it even possible for these Democrats to say this with a straight face? Has the American spirit of achievement disappeared completely?
Job Lock
And the sad part is, an ever growing sector of the population will ignorantly celebrate this as a good thing. I think we're doomed man. The downward spiral just grabbed another gear.
Job Lock
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says the CBO report vindicates Obamacare, because "this was one of the goals. To give people life, a healthy life, liberty to pursue their happiness. And that liberty is to not be job-locked, but to follow their passion." Pelosi is particularly invested in this view. She's been mocked for years now for her repeated claims that Obamacare is an entrepreneurial bill because it would let Americans quit their jobs to, among other things, "write poetry."
I know I'm not alone in thinking that it was totally worth seizing a seventh of the U.S. economy, polarizing Washington, throwing millions of Americans' lives into turmoil and forcing millions of others to pay more in premiums and deductibles, while spending $1.2 trillion just so we could liberate the Job-Locked Poets! (Whoever seizes that as the name of your new band: You're welcome.)
Now everyone is taking a bow for freeing Americans from the shackles of employment. "People shouldn't have job-lock," Harry Reid declared this week. "We live in a country where there should be free agency. People can do what they want."
And the sad part is, an ever growing sector of the population will ignorantly celebrate this as a good thing. I think we're doomed man. The downward spiral just grabbed another gear.
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Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:48 am to TygerTyger
Heard the perfect summation of the liberal mindset on the radio yesterday evening.
Liberals desire total freedom....from responsibility.
Liberals desire total freedom....from responsibility.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:49 am to TygerTyger
Not surprising. Didn't she say something like freelance poets and photographers now won't have to worry about making ends meet thanks to Obamacare (total paraphrase)??
eta: yep knew I wasn't crazy
eta: yep knew I wasn't crazy
quote:
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
-Nancy Pelosi
This post was edited on 2/7/14 at 7:50 am
Posted on 2/7/14 at 7:49 am to TygerTyger
There will be a special place in hell for Nancy.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 8:00 am to TygerTyger
You are being force fed a crazy suppository too big for your rectum to swallow without some complaints from it. That will require another pill to be swallowed. Good Luck!!
Posted on 2/7/14 at 8:07 am to TygerTyger
As the saying goes:
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance,
baffle them with bullshite.
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance,
baffle them with bullshite.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 8:13 am to TygerTyger
i love when they try to establish the new catch phrases
however, the problem with their argument is that "job lock" is a function of government policies. if "job lock" is an issue, then they should have addressed the policies that lead to "job lock" and not create more government to create more perverse incentives
more government trying to fix the failures of government
however, the problem with their argument is that "job lock" is a function of government policies. if "job lock" is an issue, then they should have addressed the policies that lead to "job lock" and not create more government to create more perverse incentives
more government trying to fix the failures of government
Posted on 2/7/14 at 8:41 am to TygerTyger
She's a delusional liberal progressive. Her dream could come to past in a futurist Star Trek-like world where technology has satisfied all needs save the top of Maslow's hierarchy. However, in the real world her philosophy amounts to a convenient delusional excuse for failed policies that relegate ignorant masses to a minimalist existence hoping against hope that the government dependents are placated enough that they don't rise up against their liberal plantation masters.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 9:17 am to TygerTyger
it is true that employer-based insurance is an incredibly powerful incentive to work and to keep your current job, if your only other options are either no insurance or maybe medicaid.
that incentive has been weakened, and now we see an estimated reduction of ~2 million jobs (per CBO) over the next several years because of it.
that might be great news for an aspiring poet, but that doesn't make it good policy
that incentive has been weakened, and now we see an estimated reduction of ~2 million jobs (per CBO) over the next several years because of it.
that might be great news for an aspiring poet, but that doesn't make it good policy
Posted on 2/7/14 at 10:12 am to TygerTyger
Real Message Nancy Pelosi:
Quit your job. Do what you want. Be Happy. The Republicans and their base will pick up the tab from now own because we outnumber them.
Quit your job. Do what you want. Be Happy. The Republicans and their base will pick up the tab from now own because we outnumber them.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 10:44 am to TygerTyger
It gets crazier. When the Leftist Instinct reaches ultimate fruition they re-educate you, seize all your private property and kill you. Some centuries they do it 100,000,000 times. Usually your execution is preceded by a lecture.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 11:51 am to TygerTyger
quote:Yep.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says the CBO report vindicates Obamacare, because "this was one of the goals. To give people life, a healthy life, liberty to pursue their happiness. And that liberty is to not be job-locked, but to follow their passion.
The concern used to be for folks trapped in poverty.
Now it's for the unfortunate Americans trapped in jobs.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 12:14 pm to TygerTyger
Putting the "fun" in "fundamental change".
It's way more fun to stay home and not work.
It's way more fun to stay home and not work.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 12:17 pm to TygerTyger
quote:Me and Ms. Pelosi have vastly different definitions of liberty and freedom.
And that liberty is to not be job-locked, but to follow their passion.
Apparenlty Ms.Pelosi believe FREEdom means getting free stuff. And liberty means liberating dollars from your neighbors.
Sickening.
Posted on 2/7/14 at 12:21 pm to TygerTyger
quote:
How is it even possible for these Democrats to say this with a straight face?
Hmmm... I tried to think of a spin job that would make Democrats ashamed to attempt. This is the best I can come up with....
Hypothetical: Obama goes nuts because his daughter was not voted homecoming queen at Sidwell Friends School. He storms into the assembly with an AK 47 and mows down 50 of her classmates.
Pelosi, at the press conference the next day: "Well, if you think about it what the President did was actually beneficial for those 50 students. Now, they won't have to worry about being accepted to an Ivy League college; they won't have to worry about finding a good job and a suitable spouse. They won't have to scrimp and save for their children's education. And they won't have to suffer the anguish of growing old and suffering unspeakable discomfort in their final years."
Posted on 2/7/14 at 3:09 pm to TygerTyger
quote:
She's been mocked for years now for her repeated claims that Obamacare is an entrepreneurial bill because it would let Americans quit their jobs to, among other things, "write poetry."
So if I want to start a business, I should save up my money, open up the business, but then keep showing up at my old job every day?
The fact conservatives laugh in the face of the problems of most Americans is precisely why you can't win the White House.
In the case of job-lock, business benefits. If your employees are trapped in their job because leaving it would mean loss of health coverage, you can get away with paying them less. So I can see why Republicans would favor policies that are pro-job-lock.
This post was edited on 2/7/14 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 2/7/14 at 4:52 pm to TygerTyger
quote:
Has the American spirit of achievement disappeared completely?
no the vision of what the achievements are is changing.
I think it's a load of crap the democrats are trying to take credit for it like it was their idea. They all said it would create jobs.
I however don't support what we've come to now in the family structure. Two minimum wage working people can't support a household. They have their kids work as soon as they are old enough. How does it make sense that our first goal as americans should be to get a job and get to work. It's not to pursue your interests, it's not to have a family and spend time with them. It should be to work as much as possible and make a career success out of yourself.
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