Posted on 07/13/2020 7:13:51 AM PDT by karpov
If we’re looking for an example of heartlessness from the political class, there are few better examples than California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s Twitter response to moderate-income freelance workers who lost their jobs because of her law restricting companies from using contract labor. Even during the coronavirus stay-at-home orders, where a suspension of the law would help desperate people make ends meet working at home and enable contract drivers to provide much-needed home deliveries, Gonzalez largely doubled down on her support for the law.
After Vox Media announced in December its layoff of two hundred mostly California-based writers for its SB Nation sports website, Gonzalez tweeted, “I’m sure some legit freelancers lost substantial income and I empathize with that especially this time of year. But Vox is a vulture.” As Reason reported, she previously said, “These were never good jobs. No one has ever suggested that, even freelancers.” She also reportedly shouted profanity at people protesting the law.
So, Gonzalez knows her law is obliterating “substantial income” for California musicians, writers, actors, speech pathologists, sign-language interpreters, you name it. But it’s not a concern because she doesn’t think they were good jobs. Apparently, if it’s not a permanent union job on a factory floor or in a cubicle, it’s just not good enough.
At this point, everyone in the state Capitol knows the unintended consequences of Assembly Bill 5. The union-backed measure targeted drivers for Uber, Lyft, and other app-based delivery services. Progressives accused these companies of “misclassifying” workers and intended to force them to hire them as permanent employees with benefits.
But even after influential lobbies representing insurance agents, Realtors, lawyers, and others carved out special exemptions, the law still ensnared many types of workers. It’s a reminder of how these central planners don’t understand the economy
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Must be that white privilege thing or something. They have had it too easy.
THIS is white privilege in action.
#NotTheirProblem #DemocratsDontCare #ItsAboutPower #AnythingForPower #TheLeftHatesYou tYouDead #TheyCalItCompassion #AllSocialissAreTheSame
They will still vote 75% Dem this November.
If I had to live in California, and successfully worked as a free-lance writer, I would go to Texas, Nevada, Washington or Wyoming and register a UPS Store address, and conduct all my business through it. I am assuming most of these folks are renters, so they should continue to shrink their CA footprint as much as possible.
The Democrats know that Castro, Mugabe, and Chavez lived like kings as they destroyed their countries.
The California revenue service is brutal. I doubt they could get away with it.
Uhm wait, ,the leftist rag Vox media told to go take a hike by the politicians they empowered to suppress speech?
I am shocked I tell you they find their king is an a$$hole
When the politicians do not fear the electorate, that is the end.
Has it occured to anyone that our businessman president might be far more knowledgeable of, and understand of this issue better, than the Corruptocrat politicians lining their own pockets?
“These were never good jobs.”
It is often the case that a bad job is better than no job. If the only job an employer offers is a bad job, the employer will lose employees when better jobs are available and the effect of this competition will make bad jobs better. Seems like no one in California understands things like that.
They’ll apparently try to claw back taxes if they don’t approve of how you’re using your out of state home once you’ve fled.
When people think there is no dignity in meeting your own needs through your own efforts and want you to be dependent on them what else would one expect from them?
Because a union shop is an arm of government. Otherwise, people are working outside government and do not matter.
“But Vox is a vulture.” As Reason reported, she previously said, “These were never good jobs. No one has ever suggested that, even freelancers.” She also reportedly shouted profanity at people protesting the law.”
I guess “no jobs at all” is better than “never good jobs”
Oh, but they do care. The commie Libs do care. They are implementing Cloward-Piven to bankrupt and transform America. They have been dying for a scenario like this where they can crush the economy. And if they can overthrow Trump in the next election, they get a two-fer.
Agreed. And bad jobs give a person training for that next good job.
Yes...and DjT could syphon off a few million popular votes, and perhaps swing a district or 2 to the R column IF HE POUNCES ON THIS AB5
Websters defines 'but' as 'a word used to seperate fake and meaningless words which preceded it from the true meaning of a statement. It is always safe to ignore everything that comes before the word but.' They go on to cite examples:
Therefore her words of sympathy for people who's lives she ruined are totally fake and can be ignored. She doesn't give a rat's rump about them. The part that matters is that she has picked entities she wants to punish and she doesn't care who she hurts to do it.
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