Posted on 02/09/2014 11:23:40 AM PST by lowbridge
Politico wonders why the GOP wants Americans to work “all the time,” using the recent CBO projection that ObamaCare will reduce the workforce by 2.5 million over the next 10 years as a springboard.
The article’s author, university professorBenjamin Kline Hunnicut, wrote that Republican reaction to the CBO projection was predictable:
“Pundits filled the airwaves, Cassandra-like, to paint ObamaCare as the ultimate job killer. Never mind that, reading the fine print, it’s clear the CBO was talking about workers voluntarily reducing their hours in response to the law—not getting laid off or seeing their shifts scaled back.”
Hunnicut then asked: “Anyway, isn’t that supposed to be a good thing?”
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Was this doosh wearing flannel pajamas and drinking hot chocolate when he wrote this?
Evidently Pollutico is fine with having nothing to redistribute as long as no one is permitted to work.
I saw this on Twitchy.
Apparently the writer is a “Professor of Leisure”.
Yep, I expect to see a push for French-like 35-hour workweeks.
In God’s first Covenant with man (before the fall), everything was created and provided for him and he needed nothing. But God provided “work”, or a task, for him. He was to tend the garden. God know from day one (or, perhaps, day six) that man needed work to do - tasks to accomplish. It is only in these later generations that retirement and fulfillment have been re-defined as “not having to work”. So now even the young want in on it! But that is no how we were made, and it is not how we “work”.
Because they fricking know that they will have to subsidize all those who choose not to do so.
Oh, come on — now they are just getting downright Silly.
They want people to just “exist” on govt. handouts? What a life.
SLACKERS UNITE!
I hear this question from time to time, and my usual reply is, "Why not? Are you 'better' than I? Do you have something *better* to do with your time?" Maybe I'm just a grouch or something, because I usually don't get very positive responses.
“Professor of Leisure”
Awesome. Where do I get me one of those degrees and jobs. I don’t recall that major from college.
Dear Prof. Hunnicut,
‘Why Do Republicans Want Us To Work All The Time?’
Why should you be any different than us?
Although we would at least like to see you work
HALF the time...
All these things are "work." If you don't do it, who will?
What if everyone chooses to not do it? Do we all just sit around and stare at each other, waiting for the other person to kill that chicken?
-PJ
Not ALL the time, once in a while might be nice, though.
This is the same pinko claptrap they spew in Europe. Exactly what the left says to justify the 35 hour work week and other socialist agenda items.
Yes, half would be a real nice start. I’m really getting tired of these shiftless bastards haranguing is to work harder for them.
There’s the example of the wagon with broken people in it being pulled by everybody else. We know some people are going to get off the yoke and jump into the wagon even though they are capable of pulling. What usually doesn’t get told in this example is the able-bodied riding in the wagon develop a sense of entitlement, and start berating the wagon-pullers because they aren’t pulling hard enough or fast enough to suit them. Eventually they’ll get a lash and start whipping the wagon-pullers, and we’re at about that stage in the analogy.
Eventually they will stop pulling, and reprise an old rule I have: “The slave toiling under the lash does not dream of his freedom. No, he dreams of becoming the Master and wielding that lash.”
I'm not laughing. We've laughed at a lot of ridiculous stuff in the past 10 years that are all now majority view. This group really is trying to turn this into a lazy European socialist state.
With the GOP’s big push for amnesty, I don’t think that they do (want us to work all the time). Why should Americans have to work when we’ve got millions of Mexicans who will work for us?
If slavery can be defined as an income tax rate of 100%, then any lesser rate is merely a matter of degree.
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