Robert Reich,: The Real Job Killers

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/274-41/22328-the-real-job-killers

House Speaker John Boehner says raising the minimum wage is "bad policy" because it will cause job losses.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says a minimum wage increase would be a job killer. Republicans and the Chamber also say unions are job killers, workplace safety regulations are job killers, environmental regulations are job killers, and the Affordable Care Act is a job killer. The California Chamber of Commerce even publishes an annual list of "job killers," including almost any measures that lift wages or protect workers and the environment.

Most of this is bunk.

When in 1996 I recommended the minimum wage be raised, Republicans and the Chamber screamed it would "kill jobs." In fact, in the four years after it was raised, the U.S. economy created more jobs than were ever created in any four-year period.

[pipoman]

1. Too bad Bob was too busy lining his tiny pockets

In 1996 to worry about the outcome of his own failure to labor. He is a traitor to the very labor he now pretends to care about.

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

2. I'm from another country so I don't understand.....

Are there links on this stuff you're talking about...

[kelliekat44]

3. LOL!!! nt

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

4. I like to see people back up their statements.....call me old fashioned...

But I like to see if people are pissing in my pocket..

[seabeckind]

5. I agree with you

That comment is totally irrelevant to the issue at hand. In fact I find that too often we get such a comment and then we begin the yes he did, no he didn't and go wandering down the garden path.

Let's stay on message.

Our job problems aren't caused by technology. They aren't caused by unions. They aren't caused by regulations or benefits or pensions. They aren't caused by competition in the global economy.

They are caused because of the business climate in this country and their insatiable greed for higher profits.