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Saw a funny little bit on someone’s Facebook page the other day. The person posted a link that gave others the opportunity to donate to or even “adopt” a “Job Creator.” In return for an ongoing donation that would come down to only pennies per day, the “Job Creator,” super-rich already but until now unable to create any jobs through no fault of his own, but plenty of fault of the government, might actually be able to create a job or two.
It was a parody of “The Children’s Miracle Network,” or something that Sally Struthers used to pitch on TV, and that the guy with the gray hair and beard tries to convince people to participate in via TV commercials today. For an investment that comes down to pennies a day, it’s been said over the decades, you can turn a poverty-stricken child’s life around in a Third World country. Your investment in that child will buy food, clothes, healthcare and education, and the child will send you letters and you will see pictures capturing the results of the good deeds done with your money.
The adopt-a-job-creator gag, with its dripping sarcasm, was all very “The Onion”-esque in its witty absurdity. But it does give one pause, serious pause, as we wonder just what all the unemployed, under-employed and employed who have endured who knows many consecutive years of flat pay – even though their cost of living has blown through the roof – have to do in order to spur these critical “job creators” to live up to their catch-phrase title bestowed upon them by Republican operatives pulling the party’s strings on a national scale. They’re not obscenely rich...they’re job creators!
The truth is, many job creators couldn’t be less interested in creating jobs. More employees mean higher payroll costs, and higher payroll costs mean fewer limousine rides, golf junkets and cushy flights in their Gulf Stream jets.
If only the government would get out of the way, they say, with its nasty, meddlesome offers of tax rebates for employers who hire more employees and tax cuts made permanent for those whose great-grandchildren would never have to work a day in their life and still live a life of unfathomable comfort.
Feel free to dismiss this editorial as just more class warfare whining. Many will. But others know that you don’t have to be a socialist country to have reasonable socioeconomic class divisions that actually exist in more than theory, and actually encompass families that get by, get by easily, and do very well financially. The rich may not have have declared war on the less-than-rich, but they are winning this battle anyway, thanks to their bought-and-paid for congress and president.
Our nation continues to struggle economically, big-time, and yet a big chunk of people, these so-called job creators, have felt no pain whatsoever and, arguably, are doing better than ever. That’s worth a good whine, and then some.
Saw a funny little bit on someone’s Facebook page the other day. The person posted a link that gave others the opportunity to donate to or even “adopt” a “Job Creator.” In return for an ongoing donation that would come down to only pennies per day, the “Job Creator,” super-rich already but until now unable to create any jobs through no fault of his own, but plenty of fault of the government, might actually be able to create a job or two.
It was a parody of “The Children’s Miracle Network,” or something that Sally Struthers used to pitch on TV, and that the guy with the gray hair and beard tries to convince people to participate in via TV commercials today. For an investment that comes down to pennies a day, it’s been said over the decades, you can turn a poverty-stricken child’s life around in a Third World country. Your investment in that child will buy food, clothes, healthcare and education, and the child will send you letters and you will see pictures capturing the results of the good deeds done with your money.
The adopt-a-job-creator gag, with its dripping sarcasm, was all very “The Onion”-esque in its witty absurdity. But it does give one pause, serious pause, as we wonder just what all the unemployed, under-employed and employed who have endured who knows many consecutive years of flat pay – even though their cost of living has blown through the roof – have to do in order to spur these critical “job creators” to live up to their catch-phrase title bestowed upon them by Republican operatives pulling the party’s strings on a national scale. They’re not obscenely rich...they’re job creators!
The truth is, many job creators couldn’t be less interested in creating jobs. More employees mean higher payroll costs, and higher payroll costs mean fewer limousine rides, golf junkets and cushy flights in their Gulf Stream jets.
If only the government would get out of the way, they say, with its nasty, meddlesome offers of tax rebates for employers who hire more employees and tax cuts made permanent for those whose great-grandchildren would never have to work a day in their life and still live a life of unfathomable comfort.
Feel free to dismiss this editorial as just more class warfare whining. Many will. But others know that you don’t have to be a socialist country to have reasonable socioeconomic class divisions that actually exist in more than theory, and actually encompass families that get by, get by easily, and do very well financially. The rich may not have have declared war on the less-than-rich, but they are winning this battle anyway, thanks to their bought-and-paid for congress and president.
Our nation continues to struggle economically, big-time, and yet a big chunk of people, these so-called job creators, have felt no pain whatsoever and, arguably, are doing better than ever. That’s worth a good whine, and then some.
