No job is now better than any job!

NRO Jan 25 Edition - Kingsbridge Armory, in the Bronx, is a cavernous building erected nearly a century ago to house a National Guard regiment. The Guard abandoned it in the mid-1990s, and after a decade and a half of sporadic use a developer proposed to convert the edifice into a shopping center that would bring some 2,200 jobs to the depressed borough. The New York City government, which owns the armory, was enthusiastic about the plan, but the city council said no way — unless retail outlets in the center agree to pay all their workers at least $10 an hour (the federal minimum wage is $7.25). This proviso, predictably, has killed the project. “We see how the interest of the people has prevailed over corporate America,” crowed borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. “We here maintain that the notion that any job is better than no job no longer applies.” That’s debatable, but if New York politicians keep preventing New York residents from selling their labor for what it’s worth, any job will certainly become scarcer than no job.
In the past most of us with a brain figured out pretty quickly that if you went out looking for a job and you only got a job that paid half of what you wanted, it was still better than that other job paying a grand sum of $0 every month. No one had to draw fancy flow charts and pie graphs or anything to get it into your skull, you just figured it out all by your lonesome.

Then came the leftist, so here we have a developer who wants to turn some dump into a mall creating jobs that'll pay bills, put food on peoples tables, etc. But that's not good enough for the leftist, just so they can stick it to evil, corporate America, the leftist refused to accept that those who actually own the businesses that would employ the people could actually pay their workers the market rate. How dare they invest their own money into a business and take all the risks that accompany it and get to decide what to pay their workers!

And so thanks to the leftist cockroaches, the people were spared the grueling slave-labor wages and now have full time jobs, with great annual salaries of $0 and long-term benefits of $0, yay for leftism!

2 comments:

  1. Reminds of the leftist in the paper a few months ago who wouldn't accept any job she didn't find ethically acceptable. As a result she had been a burden on the rest of us for years.

    In a perfect society, ethical leftists would starve by the side of the road if they couldn't find a job they were happy with.

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  2. Didn't catch that one ar, what a worthless piece of shit.

    Easiest way to get rid of leftist scum would be to get rid of welfare or just put some small restrictions on it.

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