The Torrid Spin Of The Left – 2.5 Million Free Agents
Notice how the left had their marching orders immediately after the disastrous CBO report came out? From the Obama regime on down Democrats at all levels were speaking the same language like “job lock” or “free agents”, and “more time to spend with family”. For one thing, I have never heard the words “job lock” or “free agent” mentioned when it comes to the economy or the labor force….ever. Secondly, who in their right mind would think that this tactic would work? Talk about trying to pull the wool over peoples eyes, my goodness.
If you listen to the spin coming from Obama and his minions, you are the lucky ones. You now have the wonderful option of not working because your healthcare has been paid for. Apparently it doesn’t matter who pays for this new luxury, they just want all of us to know that all is well. This is the brave new world of the “free agent” where a person no longer feels the need to be “job locked” having to deal with the real world of the employed. Oh praise be Obama!
Well it doesn’t work that way nor should it. As I mentioned earlier the government should be doing everything in their power to get these people BACK to work, not praising the opportunity to get out of it. If you don’t beleive me maybe you would listen to someone a bit more famous than myself. This is what President Abe Lincoln thought about labor:
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor—the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all—gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.” The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, “Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin” (September 30, 1859), pp. 478-479.
Enough said, don’t fall for the rainbow of lies Obama and his useful idiots pull out of their collective asses.