Posted on 12/26/2007 10:33:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In his latest attack on the free market and what appears to be a calculated political move to appeal to Michigan voters, John McCain wants to create a new welfare program for manufacturing workers.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Senator McCain announced yesterday a plan to use federal dollars to make up the salary difference for workers who lose manufacturing jobs and are forced to accept lower-paying jobs until they find new careers.
This is exactly the kind of plan you expect to hear from the Democratic candidates, not an alleged economic conservative, The government should not be in the business of guaranteeing wages. In a dynamic economy, wage and employment changes are inevitable and part of the normal process of economic growth and technological innovation.
In addition, McCain’s welfare program has the potential to unleash a series of perverse incentives, the worst of which is the disincentive to learn new skills and assume challenging new career paths. Why make an effort to learn new skills and take on a challenge when John McCain will make taxpayers pay your former wage for even a minimum wage job? The program also has the potential to be exorbitantly expensive as many workers opt to settle for low-paying jobs so long as McCain doles out taxpayer subsidies.
This is the latest evidence that John McCain doesn’t appreciate the normal dynamics of a healthy economy and lacks confidence in the ability of workers to forge a successful new career without government handouts.
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Pat Toomey is president for Club for Growth.
I’d like a program that would match dollar-for-dollar what was confiscated by the government from my hard-earned pay check and pi*sed away in useless programs.
What Michigan voters need to do is less reliance on their outdated unions and class warfare rheoteric, more sensible voting when it comes to their senators and Governor, this Mccain program is not addressing some of the fundamental issues in Michigan society.
What Michigan voters need to do is less reliance on their outdated unions and class warfare rheoteric, more sensible voting when it comes to their senators and Governor, this Mccain program is not addressing some of the fundamental issues in Michigan society.
And yet, I look at McCain and Huckabee and think, damn, they are soooo much better than slime like Rudy and Romney.
Now THAT is sad.
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