With an increasingly bitter lockout of union sugar refinery workers dragging on in the Red River Valley, it's not surprising that a local editor is writing about the way Americans should respond to the needs of job creators.
The editor of the Crookston Times doesn't disappoint. Indeed, he seeks renewed vigor in reviving the interest of our nation's people formerly known as the super-rich in creating jobs.
In For just pennies a day, you, too, can help a 'job creator,' Mike Christopherson shares his dreams that some day, somehow, America's job creators will once more pin their hopes on creating jobs, rather than just swapping naked credit derivatives or acquiring another corporate jet. His editorial is based on this plea:
Christopherson concludes:
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.
Photo: Sally Struthers used to ask us to think of poor children. Now we're supposed to turn our pennies over to the mega rich.
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