Unemployment is a Koch Family Value

[McCamy Taylor]

If you are (or know) an unemployed American, the Tea Parties want you to believe that Obama ate your job, because he hates white people. What you may not realize is that on the flip side of all those Obama in tribal garb posters, the Tea Party message reads Jobs are Un-American!

Here are some Koch family values that have cost Americans their jobs.


I. First Hired, First Fired

According to the Cato Institute, in order for business to succeed, it must be free to fire employees with seniority and replace them with low wage newbies.

But when hard times come, employers may in certain circumstances reasonably conclude that such premiums are no longer cost-effective.
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Thus, an employer cannot decide "I will fire all of my older employees because they tend to cost more money"; but he should be able to decide that "I will fire all my most expensive employees," even if many of them are over the age of 40.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa082.html

As many of you now know, Charles Koch founded the Cato Institute. Koch also funds the Tea Parties. That means that the Tea Parties want to see middle aged workers with seniority kicked to the curb so that business can post bigger profits.

II. Just Say “No” to Small Business

Small businesses create jobs. The GOP proved that it hates jobs this summer when it attempted to block legislation to free up loans for small business after the Banksters refused to fulfill their part of the bailout agreement.

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/republicans-block-bill-to-aid-small-business/

The GOP always claims to be the champion of small business. If they will not offer them loans, how do they propose to get them back on their feet?
Koch’s people know how to do it. In order to give small businesses a break, they want to cut taxes for big businesses .

http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-ce-20100223.html

Bet you did not know that a huge multinational that outsources its jobs and invests its money abroad is the exact same as a domestic business that employees American workers.

III. “Outsource, Outsource and Outsource Some More”

More from Big Daddy Koch’s boys at the Cato Institute. From an article entitled Outsource, Outsource, and Outsource Some More

Foreign outsourcing allows American IT companies to cut dramatically the cost of certain services; as a result, the companies become more competitive in what they do best, their "core competencies." Better and more affordable services become available for consumers and taxpayers.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10867

Available to foreign consumers, that is, the ones who have all our jobs.

[OnyxCollie]

1. K&R. nt

[Hannah Bell]

2. koch's dad helped found & fund the john birch society as well.

undermining democracy for 3 generations.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. The Tea Baggers are direct descendents of the JBS ...

same people, same mentality. They've just found a new label and, thanks to our MSM and people like the Kochs, are no longer consigned to the fringes.

[Hannah Bell]

5. i agree. i don't think the birchers ever left, they just keep morphing.

i had a horrible experience with one as a child. she called me into her garage when i was walking home from school & proceeded to tell me my parents were communists (based on some birch garbage about their occupations). it was creepy as hell.

[Skittles]

3. that offshore stuff is total BULLSHIT

"Better and more affordable services become available for consumers and taxpayers." - fuck, the savings don't end up with the consumers, taxpayers, or remaining employees - IT ENDS UP IN THE POCKETS OF THE THIEVING CEOs and EXECUTIVES

[madokie]

9. And they're bitching to high heaven about paying their fair share of taxes to top it off

should be a season on the bastards right now.

[hfojvt]

6. no it is not

According to this site http://names.mongabay.com/most_common_surnames.htm there are 39,792 people in this country with the surname Koch, making it the 736th most common name in America. That does not include people like my sisters. Or my nieces and nephews, or Albert Einstein, who might think of themselves as 50% Koch.

As one of the 39,000, I am used to the phrase "Koch family" to mean "MY family". As such, I do not think it is cool to act as though the Charles Koch family is THE Koch family, like he is Matt Damon or something. Benedict Arnold, for example, was known as a traitor, but you wouldn't say that "Treason is an Arnold family value". That would hardly be fair to Matthew, would it?

[nxylas]

7. I think everyone knows which Koch family the OP is talking about

If they didn't at the beginning of the article, they certainly would by the end.

[madokie]

8. The koch brothers bought a perfectly good

Union employees, paper plant in the local industrial park and promptly closed it down. now they have it in mothballs waiting for some time to pass then they will open it back up as a non union shop. Same thing happened to the Foundry which was a union shop here a few years ago but by different bastards but the end result was the same. The foundry is pouring iron with non union labor today.

Sorry bastards all of them

edit to replace plant with park

[The Wizard]

10. High unemployment

increases their bottom line. It creates downward pressure on the work force. Employers have a larger pool of potential workers vying for a paycheck and willing to accept less as survival makes people do things they otherwise wouldn't consider.

[nicky187]

11. They & all like them...

... are sociopathic assholes. When conditions finally get bad enough in this country, you're going to see scenes like the one at the end of "Johnny Mnemonic," where the PharmaCon building is going up in flames.

I just want to get an early place in line at the Dubya Library at SMU. I'll bring the marshmallows.

[HillbillyBob]

16. now if you were gonna roast some Bushes...

but i sure would not want to try toasting anything to eat. Gawd knows what kind of poisonous fume would come off that burning lie-berry.

[JHB]

12. Daddy got rich the old fashioned way...

...Government contracts. With Stalin's government, no less.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. This can not be stressed enough!

[Hannah Bell]

15. +100. common theme.

[chervilant]

14. Ironically,

I just received my first unemployment benefits this morning. For the first two weeks during which I qualify, I was led to believe that I would receive $406 per week, for a total of $812. Of course, I am working part time, since I do WANT to be gainfully employed. My benefit posted was $366.

Michele Malkin and her ilk can kiss my derriere, with their 'Americans would rather stay home and collect unemployment than work'!! I would give eye teeth for a full-time job! Well, maybe one eye tooth, since I've lost the better part of one of my bicuspids and can ill afford to lose another tooth on that side of my mouth...

But, I digress.

Do people not GET how difficult it is to remain positive, and committed to personal success, in the face of such devastating financial straits?!?! I have to fight with my despondent brain every single day not to indulge in suicidal ideation!!!!!!

Well, excuse me while I go have a good cry...