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Originally Posted by GregE
I don't know about you, but when I hear Republicans refer to the same folks who are doing all of their hiring in India and East Asia as "job creators", I'm inclined to grab a pitchfork and join the nearest angry mob.
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Why would that make you angry?
A business is supposed to make money. And a penny saved is a penny earned. If you can open a factory and make a big profit in a third world country as opposed to opening the same factory here and losing money because the govt. forces you to pay tons of benefits, health care, matching social security funds, etc., etc. Wouldn't YOU do the same thing?
I think Republicans just call them "job creators" to try and defend against the other side of the imaginary Republicans vs. Democrats (they are both the same).
I believe that IF the American worker could actually compete against the rest of the world we would be better off. And no, I'm not talking about going back to the Draconian pre-labor union days.
But I do feel that the pendulum might have swung too far.
I am now a one man show since I have laid off the 4 people that used to work for me. I am absolutely able to do all of their work myself. But I didn't want to have to lay them off.
I was fortunate to have been able to help them all find new gigs and one of them is even making more money now. So for that I'm thankful.
But I had to lay them off. I'm a small business compared to most...and quite frankly it was killing me just watching that extra money that the govt. forced me to pay in matching funds on their social security tax. Especially knowing that they might never see it since the govt. is so far in debt.
I can only imagine what it would be like to have a business with a hundred employees. And not only have to pay them a big salary, but then have to pay for their health insurance and matching SS taxes and paid vacations and pensions...
Basically the govt. & unions went a little too far over the years and now everybody is bitching because companies move overseas where they can actually turn a big profit.
I don't know what the answer to that is.
But apparently instead of making the U.S. more Business Friendly and bring those jobs back home...the answer is to tax the fuck out of them and put everybody on welfare so we all depend on the govt. to take care of us.
Power. Plain and simple.