Euphemisms Don't Create Jobs!
Talk about a sleight of hand Republican Party, look around.
Notice anything missing?
Okay, I will give a clue.
Where is labor?
The last time I looked, labor was alive and well!
That was before the Republican magicians in management and government conspired to make labor disappear!
Now, you look around and you don't hear anything about it. And you might begin to puzzle how it all happened so quietly right under our noses.
Well, you emember those innocuous terms "downsizing, " "off-shoring," Green cards, merging and acquisitions,....well, they have all conspired to give us what the Republicans wanted all along: Democrats without their base.
In the past, the Dems could count on labor to do the heavy lifting; to stand out on the picket lines; to go out and get votes; to do the grunge work that nobody else was willing to take on...
Now, Labor is mostly gone. Replaced in part with a guest labor program and a relaxation of labor rules that has robbed labor of its backbone. Nor did it help, when most of our manufacturing base was shipped overseas because "we really didn't need manufacturing anymore..."
Even the august NYTimes never acknowledged that service jobs could never replace manufacturing jobs. Service jobs had no multiplier effect, they did not turn one dollar into six in the marketplace and, for the most part, they were low paying and part-time. But nobody seemed concerned.
Everything would work out fine according to the mantra of Republican management.
How will this impact our coming election?
A great deal; unless we can mobilize a new source of voter who is willing to take on the heavy lifting.
What we are seeing is not encouraging by any means.
And with Labor gone, what is going to happen to the "organizers, " the people who made things happen.
In the space of fifteen years, we have seen a labor-intensive workforce virtually disappear.
And all because of one little invention we were told would never replace a single job: the computer.
ironic!
Reminds me of viewing the guillotine as a way to eliminate painful punishments...
In the end, all one can say is that the republicans are very clever at euphemisms...
Les Aaron
Notice anything missing?
Okay, I will give a clue.
Where is labor?
The last time I looked, labor was alive and well!
That was before the Republican magicians in management and government conspired to make labor disappear!
Now, you look around and you don't hear anything about it. And you might begin to puzzle how it all happened so quietly right under our noses.
Well, you emember those innocuous terms "downsizing, " "off-shoring," Green cards, merging and acquisitions,....well, they have all conspired to give us what the Republicans wanted all along: Democrats without their base.
In the past, the Dems could count on labor to do the heavy lifting; to stand out on the picket lines; to go out and get votes; to do the grunge work that nobody else was willing to take on...
Now, Labor is mostly gone. Replaced in part with a guest labor program and a relaxation of labor rules that has robbed labor of its backbone. Nor did it help, when most of our manufacturing base was shipped overseas because "we really didn't need manufacturing anymore..."
Even the august NYTimes never acknowledged that service jobs could never replace manufacturing jobs. Service jobs had no multiplier effect, they did not turn one dollar into six in the marketplace and, for the most part, they were low paying and part-time. But nobody seemed concerned.
Everything would work out fine according to the mantra of Republican management.
How will this impact our coming election?
A great deal; unless we can mobilize a new source of voter who is willing to take on the heavy lifting.
What we are seeing is not encouraging by any means.
And with Labor gone, what is going to happen to the "organizers, " the people who made things happen.
In the space of fifteen years, we have seen a labor-intensive workforce virtually disappear.
And all because of one little invention we were told would never replace a single job: the computer.
ironic!
Reminds me of viewing the guillotine as a way to eliminate painful punishments...
In the end, all one can say is that the republicans are very clever at euphemisms...
Les Aaron
posted by The Armchair Curmudgeon at 12:37 PM
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