Monday, July 8, 2013

Dismal Jobs Report as Obama Kills Full-Time Jobs and Hurts the Opportunity for Young People to Have Careers. By Rush Limbaugh.

Dismal Jobs Report as Obama Kills Full-Time Jobs and Hurts the Opportunity for Young People to Have Careers. By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, July 8, 2013.

Rush:

Another way to look at a full-time job is a career. You know, there’s all kinds of work. There’s entry level work, which is minimum wage, where you enter the workforce and just learn what it's all about, getting a paycheck for showing up on time and all that. And then there are jobs you do to help supplant your existence, when you’re in school, if you do that. But then at some point in your life you figure out what you want to do. At some point in your life, if you’re lucky, you learn what you love. A lot of people never do, so their job never is any more than a job, something they have to do.
 
Some people actually find out what they love. And that takes on a whole different meaning to them than just the job. It’s a career, and it’s the definition of who they are. Other people find full-time work, and it is a career in the sense that there is advancement if you do well, but they may not be doing what they love. And that’s the group I’m talking about. The opportunity – you know, a job is one thing; a career is another. Because a career is where you devote yourself to improving and advancing, climbing the ladder, as it were. I’m sorry; with only 47% of working adults working full time, we’re not even developing careers for people to exploit and to experience and to conquer.
 
Now, this is massive change from what the American jobs universe used to be. The American jobs universe contained all the jobs and types of jobs that we have today, but there were certainly far more career opportunities than there are today. And the career opportunities are directly relatable to the number of jobs that no longer exist. Now with Obamacare and companies converting full time to part time, you can wave good-bye to a career as a part-timer.  You’re not gonna conquer anything part time.  You’re not gonna climb a ladder part time.  And you’re not gonna get health care part time. And that’s why you're being converted to part time.  Because Obamacare is so expensive that companies are weighing staying in business or going out of business, staying profitable or not. And contrary to low-information voter beliefs, a company is not there to provide you health care.  It’s there for a whole lot of other reasons.
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Plus, 101 million Americans are getting food aid, which is a number larger than the number of people who have jobs. This is why, folks, some people have said that I sound like I’m a little cold-hearted when I talk about this. I’m not. If you’re on unemployment in America, you’ve got your car . . . The way to put this is: The unemployed are still eating, and so what’s the problem? The unemployed have their cell phones, they have their cars, they’ve got their flat screens and food.
 
Being unemployed is not what it used to be.
 
When you were out of work, you were in dire circumstances, and your unemployment compensation didn’t come close to substituting what you had lost when you lost your job. I’m talking about incentives. What’s the incentive to work? It’s not nearly as big. There isn’t anywhere near the necessity. I’m telling you, I can’t emphasize enough: You take away the whole notion of careers from the American jobs experience, or universe, whatever you want to call it?