"Food Stamp" Jobs Just Like I Thought

[TheMastersNemesis]

50% of the jobs created in the last six months were low paying. Welcome to the Reagan service sector economy that he crowed about in 1981. Good jobs now pay $10 or less. The GOP believes that those are good jobs. Now go down and apply for food stamps.

The anti union, anti labor and anti government regulation that workers keep voting for has brought this economy to the country. And the GOP plan to make it worse. You cannot blame Obama for this situation because he inherited 30 years of "tinkle down" economics. He was saddle by a generation of economists who only knew that theory.

What bothers me most is that everything that I believed about what the GOP was doing is coming true. There was not a thing hat I could have done except watch it happen. Each election cycle was torture.

[SoCalDem]

1. A 35 year old guy I know just recently got a job

He has one kid, is married and has some college.

They rent a mediocre apartment and have ONE car (an old-ish one)

The job?

"customer service" at a bowling alley.

He had been out of work for at least 6 months and they have been living on handouts from family & the wife's job.

NO health insurance

the sad part is that he was happy to get this job..a job that in past times would have been the perfect after-school job for 16 yr old.

[progressoid]

2. Yeah.

That's my wife. Two masters degrees and working customer service. It's beyond depressing.

[SoCalDem]

5. "customer service" at a bowling alley these days is

cleaning up vomit in a bathroom
collecting trash after bowlers leave
spraying disinfectant in rental shoes

just the kind of crappy teen-job stuff that can sometimes focus a kid on how important that education may just be..but now those jobs are ADULT jobs..for adults who have family responsibilities

A friend of mine in high school was "forced" to do menial labor at his Dad's car dealership. He hated mopping floors, cleaning toilets etc. His Dad told him that without good grades & college those are the jobs he would have as an adult, because when he (Dad) got older he planned to SELL the dealership & move away with Mom...and he did just that

One son became a pharmacist..the other a lawyer

[Turbineguy]

12. A contractor once told me:

"Don't look too good with that shovel in your hand, you'll be digging ditches your whole life!"

Now I ask, "Do I supply my own shovel?"

[KamaAina]

3. Freudian Post O' The Decade!!!

he inherited 30 years of "tinkle down" economics.

[freshwest]

4. Like the Judge Judy book title, 'Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining'

This is a meme that needs to be exploited!

Tinkle-nomics! The GOP's model for the U.S.A. for more than 30 years! How's that working out for ya, America?

[starroute]

10. Not Freudian at all - it's a meme, courtesy of Jim Hightower

http://www.thenation.com/blog/159999/end-tinkle-down-economics

End 'Tinkle Down' Economics
Katrina vanden Heuvel on April 18, 2011

For thirty years, we've been treated to the big whopper that cutting taxes on the rich creates jobs. Let's get real. Trickle-down—or, as my good friend Jim Hightower likes to call it, tinkle-down economics—hasn't worked. Case closed. After George W. cut taxes for his rich pals, far fewer jobs were created than after President Bill Clinton raised them in the 1990s.


http://www.csindy.com/colorado/tinkle-down-economics-and-jobs-act/Content?oid=2450191

Tinkle-down economics and JOBS Act
Lowdown
by Jim Hightower

Hallelujah, Washington has finally heard the people's cries for jobs! In an urgent bipartisan push, Democrats and Republicans have passed the JOBS Act.

At last, jobs for all, right? Well — not right away. Certainly not for all. Maybe none.

You see, the new law itself doesn't create a single job for the tens of millions of unemployed and underemployed workers in our land of the rich. . . .

It's just another "tinkle-down" economic scam written by and for Wall Street fraudsters. The law makes it easier for them to raise cash for their new business schemes by deceiving investors about the risk of losses, the true financial condition of the enterprise, and the amount of capital being raked off by executives.

[KG]

6. those trumpeting the 'recovery' aren't the ones taking the crappy paying jobs.

[girl gone mad]

14. Hmmmmm..

How much does trumpeting the 'recovery' pay these days, I wonder.

[Iliyah]

7. Thats really effing sad.

But this is the GOP/Corporations master plan. Don't ya see what they are doing in states that are controlled by the GOP? Anti-Union, Anti-Voter rights, shit anti-AMERICAN......and they truly hate women as well.

[jwirr]

8. My grandson is married with three children, manages a liquor store, gets food stamps, medical

assistance, and his wife works as one of his clerks. She is going to college to be a preschool teacher and he is thinking of going to college but does not know what to go for. I have told him that the problem is that he is working at one of the recession proof jobs. He agreed and said that when things get worse people tend to drink more. Not a good thing but seems to be true.

We are truly in troubel when there seems to be no incentive to go to college and more to drink.

[Fuddnik]

9. With that, I'll have a drink!

It's 5:00 already!

And maybe fix my wife some dinner while I'm at it.

[WCGreen]

11. Big Business doesn't have to pay a fair wage knowing that the taxpayers

will subsidize the workers with public assistance.

Well, that is, until the GOP gets rid of those programs...

[jwirr]

13. That has always been true - as a mother on AFDC I could take lower wages in the 60s because I

got help. The problem the businesses have always thought it was me getting subsidized. They never saw the benefit for them in it.

[CrispyQ]

17. That's a key point that a lot of people miss & that the media or politicians never touch on.

The problem the businesses have always thought it was me getting subsidized. They never saw the benefit for them in it.

[LiberalAndProud]

16. Is the argument, then, that the absence of these programs would result in higher wages?

I tend to think people would just go hungry. Business would continue to pay what the market will allow.

[WCGreen]

19. You could look at it that way...

But you have to remember that the "market" adjusts as long as there is competition.

When there is no competitive pressure, the market pricing would then rely almost exclusively on desire and need.

[phantom power]

15. I think of under-employment every time I see the unemployment numbers

Unemployment has gone from 9.1% to 8.2% (still way high), but how many of these new jobs are good ones?

[jwirr]

18. And that is the whole problem with work in the modern world.

[NNN0LHI]

20. There was not a thing that I could have done except watch it happen ...

Have to agree, it truly has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

Seen it coming and there was nothing I could do to prevent it.

Tried explaining people what was going on but they just didn't want to believe it.

And the rich get richer.

Don