"We plan to build a grass-roots business organization so strong that when it bites you in the butt, you bleed ... we have to demonstrate who it is in this society that creates jobs, wealth and benefits -- and who it is that eats them." --President, U.S. Chamber of CommerceAlrighty then, master! Not to get all Marxist on everyone, but what we are seeing here is the same class struggle that Karl Marx described in the nineteenth century, a class war being waged by the richest Americans against the poorest. But when anybody points this out, they are accused of fomenting a "class war."
OK, I'll STFU now.
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The good 'ol USCoC - - always crowing about how business supposedly creates all these jobs, so they should get preferential treatment. First of all, they're only 'creating' these jobs because THEY want to make a profit -- not to help communities or individuals or the country. And lately they've been 'destroying' a lot of good jobs (shipping them overseas and/or automating them) in the name of profit! Secondly, in many cases (ie; in the southern red states especially), the US government creates BETTER paying jobs than most of the USCoC participants. For instance, getting a job in the US Post Office can be a high-paying job in rural Americana. Also, a lot of the US armed forces enlistees join due to lack of decent paying jobs in their area.
My point is that the USCoC shouldn't be allowed to try to 'own' the 'job creation' issue as some sort of 'community service' that they're doing, because they don't do it for that reason nor look at it that way -- for them, job creation is more a necessary evil. Ideally they'd like to have NO employees and ALL sales (NO costs, ALL profit is the mythical ideal of business).
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