Posted on 07/12/2021 5:41:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This letter comes to you from Maine rather than, as normal, from Washington, D.C. Examining the entrails of federal policy is easier in the imperial city, but one can see better from outside the Beltway how it fails.
What stands out is the Democrats’ corrosive policy of paying people not to work. Like much of the country, Maine is booming and businesses want to hire. In May, the unemployment rate fell to 4.7%, better than the national rate of 5.8%.
But the number is deceptive. Labor force participation fell to 60.1%, slightly worse than the national rate of 60.2%, which itself is below anything since the 1970s. Maine’s participation rate has fallen nearly a point in the year since COVID-19 threw millions out of work. This flatters the unemployment rate because only people looking for jobs are counted, not those who choose to be idle. Young graduates are lolling on the dole from Uncle Sam rather than taking summer jobs before knuckling down to careers in the fall. Some arranged to collect COVID-enhanced unemployment benefits a year ago, cutting a deal to be fired by their employers so taxpayers would foot the bill for what was effectively their severance.
Everywhere one looks, it’s impossible to recruit staff. A local grocery has posted a notice asking customers to be patient with slow service because the place is short-staffed. A builder who’d like to take on more projects amid the real estate boom is frustrated because he “can’t hire people to do the work.” The local YMCA has lost 30 lifeguards because it can’t keep them on the wages it can pay. A lodge catering to whitewater rafting groups on the Kennebec River turns customers away because its diminished staff can’t cope.
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Are democRATs stupid or evil. I think it is some of both.
The Dems need to collapse the system in order to remake it as they see fit.
Maine is booming? Wow! I’d have to see that before I could believe it. To my knowledge, it’s been behind the times for a LONG time.
Definitely both. The evil part is made up of people pulling puppet strings to bring about the destruction of the USA. They have been in place since the Russian Revolution at least. The stupid part is made up of true believers who think the 'rat party just wants to "help people and save the environment" These people are the useful idiots that the puppet masters manipulate.
The leaders are very evil. The followers are like zombies.
It’s a feature, not a bug. Cloward-Piven in action.
Today Rat Party leadership is all about chaos...just like The Joker.
Yeah, they eat brains bet never seem to get any smarter.
Nope,no way are they stupid...not even a little bit. Brilliant,evil and depraved...like Mao himself.
They aren’t stupid by any means imo. They’re also very patient. Now is their time to pounce. It took 60+ years to achieve most, if not all of the 45 goals according to “The Naked Communist”. COVID, vaccines, election fraud, complicit media, an uneducated America in history and economics and a weak GOP. They’re giddy with excitement.
Pay more.
It is not the function of the State to privilege capital over labor, or vice-versa.
If the market doesn’t clear at these rates, raise the rates. If the business can’t pay, raise the prices.
I thought “Failure” and “Democrat” were the same word.
Totally agree. They definitely need to collapse the system. That is an essential goal. So, doing things “wrong” is part of the plan.
as Rush used to say, it’s a resume enhancer for Dems.
Cultural Marxism was meant to produce people incapable of sustaining a civilization.
So failure is a feature of the CM Left.
“It’s a feature, not a bug. Cloward-Piven in action.”
“The worse the better.” Josef Stalin.
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Is failure a byproduct or an aim of Democratic policy?
Yes
Not a by product. It’s their goal
Yes.
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