Posted by
flagwaver on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5:11:11 AM
My younger brother sent me an interesting text message yesterday concerning the proposed jobs plan that Grand Imperial President…of the World Obama is demanding be passed by the Congress post haste. In it, according to the information that my brother shared with me the White House is urging the Congress to create an all new class of victims for the Democrats to pander to. What is that new group you ask?
The unemployed.
Seriously.
No joke.
With the votes of his most die hard supporters in Congress, President Obama aims to turn the unemployed into a group that has special rights and gets special considerations, much like the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. According to what my brother was able to glean, the President proposes to strong arm businesses into favoring the hiring of the long term unemployed over those people who are simply between jobs, doing what Americans have always done…look for a better opportunity elsewhere in the marketplace. But on Obamaworld, hiring those people would represent discrimination against those who have been unemployed for a long period of time, so the long term unemployed would be able to theoretically sue companies that chose not to hire them!
What this whole idea does is to reinforce two things that conservatives have always instinctively understood about situations where the government creates protected classes or groups of people: (1) In order to “end discrimination”, someone new has to become a victim of discrimination and (2) Democrats can only survive by feeding off the despair of groups that they have reduced to victim hood status.
By allowing the long term unemployed a right to sue a prospective employer who chooses not to hire them, often in favor of hiring someone more suited to the job position to be filled, the qualified worker who is simply attempting to find a better employment situation is openly being discriminated against. What this does in essence is bars an ambitious person from trying to better their own financial and professional positions by making it criminal for an employer to employ them. What company is going to run the risk of violating federal law to hire a particular applicant, if doing so carries the threat of a major lawsuit being filed against them? I would guess that some would do it, but most would not take that chance, especially with the unethical Attorney General Eric Holder in charge at Justice. The risk just does not seem to be worth any potential reward on this one.
Further, it is a shame that the long term unemployed are now being cast as helpless victims, unable to fend for themselves. Look, up until three months ago, I was one of the long term unemployed/underemployed; I never saw myself as a victim of anything other than circumstance. I came out of college with my degree in history to a world where the unthinkable was happening…teachers were being let go for purely financial reasons. Suddenly, my plans to get my degree and move seamlessly into the teaching profession were sidetracked, and I had to come up with a different plan. So I began looking for work in my field, or a closely related field, while simultaneously looking for other gainful employment. It took a while to find something full time, but eventually my perseverance paid off and now I have a well paying, full time gig. But I was nobody’s victim; circumstances simply forced me to alter my plans and account for the present reality.
Besides, how much of a victim can you be when the government has already extended unemployment benefits to last darned near two years, and is proposing another extension in this alleged “jobs plan”? We all know that this is just a way to get another group of so-called victims locked onto the liberal plantation, dependent on the “benevolent” Democrats to pay the freight for the right of first refusal on their votes. Because without a captive audience, the Democrats hardly stand a snowball’s chances in July of remaining a viable political presence going forward.
I just hope that when all the dust settles and people can look at the situation clearly, that they will realize that this “jobs plan” is just another Obama smokescreen intended to fool all the trusting dupes out there. Hopefully, those people have wised up to the reality of the Obama presidency and see it for the failure that it is, and this plan for the mish-mash of liberal poppycock that we conservatives know it to be.
We can only hope.