This Is How Liberals Think

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

You're a liberal. You've identified a problem -- the massive loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States; a net loss of 4.6 million jobs over the last 20 years. You've even done a decent job of identifying the causes of the problem: "Companies lose market share to foreign low-cost producers . . . or move their operations overseas in search of lower wages . . . or apply production techniques that require fewer workers."

So, what's your solution? Measures like reducing taxes and regulation to make U.S. manufacturers more competitive, perhaps? Of course not! Remember, you're a liberal. No, your solution is what you yourself describe as a "massive" new welfare program for affected workers that will contribute to making U.S. manufacturers even less competitive and destroy even more jobs!

That is the approach proposed by Gary Chaison in his Boston Globe column of this morning, Disaster relief needed for manufacturing:

The best answer is to treat the closing of major manufacturing plants as the emergencies that they are. This means providing the intensive, comprehensive aid similar to what is given in disaster-stricken communities.

A massive nationally coordinated and community-focused relief program for job losses in manufacturing has never been attempted. But federal departments, including those for emergency relief, health and human services, commerce, environment affairs, and transportation must work together to devise specific plans to make declining communities attractive and thriving again.

Relief plans should include extended unemployment insurance and healthcare benefits for displaced workers as well as assistance to help them meet rent and mortgage payments. Special low-interest and forgivable loans should be provided by the Small Business Administration to keep downtown merchants afloat. Federal grants should be directed at rebuilding schools and modernizing hospitals, and training and raising the pay of teachers, firefighters, police, and healthcare workers. To be judged successful, a comprehensive plan should not only attract employers but also rebuild and revive entire communities, from their schools to their shopping.

So there it is. A "massive" new welfare program that is part of a "comprehensive plan" for "entire communities." Say, why not give it a name? "Five Year Plan for Aiding Hero Workers and Rebuilding Entire Communities for Glory of Motherland" has a nice ring.

Does Chaison even attempt to calculate the cost of his proposals, or how such additional costs will translate into higher taxes that will discourage economic growth and kill more jobs? How many times do I have to tell you? We're talking about a liberal here.

Oh, and not just any old liberal. This isn't a college sophomore indulging his utopian big-government fantasies. It's the guy who's teaching that college sophomore. As we're informed at the foot: "Gary Chaison is professor of industrial relations at Clark University's Graduate School of Management and the author of 'Unions in America.'" Comforting to know that fellows like this are molding the minds of tomorrow, no?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Liberal-think ping to Today show list.

[NCBraveheart]

Let’s face it, this is a socialist country and has been since the 1930’s. Only a true revolution could wrest control away from them at this point. The worst part is how many people probably AGREE with this idiot

[johnny7]

...devise specific plans to make declining communities attractive and thriving again.

Potemkin villages...

[Darkwolf377]

The best answer is to treat the closing of major manufacturing plants as the emergencies that they are. This means providing the intensive, comprehensive aid similar to what is given in disaster-stricken communities.

Good grief, has this "writer" ever HAD a job? Ever met a payroll?

The amount of sheer uninformed foolishness that is put out there by people who've never LIVED the lives they write about except from one perspective (losing a job, but not owning a company) is overwhelming. I've seen how idiot teachers in my school push this socialist crap on kids, and the higher-ups in the school simply don't see this as liberal prosletysing but as fact.

[maryz]

how many people probably AGREE with this idiot

Well, Globe readers at least have been trained in this way of "thinking" (if that's the word I want!) for years. What happened -- did the Globe lose Robert Kuttner?

[Stop Liberalism]

Just another example of why this country is dying from within. The liberals have infected America’s core and will destroy her within the next twenty years.

We are lost because like the communist from which they have grown, they took over the education system and the media.

[endthematrix]

Shift the $15 billion for Africa back to the USA and I may agree...

Bush advocates reemployment accounts and the Fed and States have millions for grabs in career retraining.

Not to mention mortgage help...

If you want to make “declining communities attractive” get the slobs out to clean up the trash they litter from their stoops everyday!

[kitkat]

BUMP

[Nathan Zachary]

"Relief plans should include extended unemployment insurance and healthcare benefits for displaced workers as well as assistance to help them meet rent and mortgage payments. Special low-interest and forgivable loans should be provided by the Small Business Administration to keep downtown merchants afloat. Federal grants should be directed at rebuilding schools and modernizing hospitals, and training and raising the pay of teachers, firefighters, police, and healthcare workers. To be judged successful, a comprehensive plan should not only attract employers but also rebuild and revive entire communities, from their schools to their shopping.

And just where do these liberal idiots think all the money is going to come from?

If everyone is loosing their jobs, nobody is paying taxes, and government coffers run dry.

Do liberals really think that federal coffers are bottomless money wells?

Do they think that taxing business and corporations even more is going to encourage them to stay, and not move to other countries, precisely what they are doing now because of high taxes and labor costs?

Liberals are idiots. They just can't seem to complete the circle.

[nyyankeefan]

This Is How Liberals Think....

when in doubt.....raise taxes!!!!

[borntobeagle]

“Do liberals really think that federal coffers are bottomless money wells?”

YES!! They absolutely do believe they think they have bottomless wells!

And you want to know what’s worse? The fact that even when these wells run dry, they’ll still be able to get their grubby hands on more money at the expense of taxpayers like you and me.

It’s time to vote ‘em all out and start from scratch!

[Erik Latranyi]

Special low-interest and forgivable loans should be provided by the Small Business Administration to keep downtown merchants afloat. Federal grants should be directed at rebuilding schools and modernizing hospitals, and training and raising the pay of teachers, firefighters, police, and healthcare workers. To be judged successful, a comprehensive plan should not only attract employers but also rebuild and revive entire communities, from their schools to their shopping.

Here is the problem.

Liberals have condoned vandalizing downtown merchants as either an "expression of art" or just poor mothers trying to feed their children (with plasma TVs).

Liberals have done nothing to change the view by most living in our inner cities that an education is necessary or that teachers deserve respect. Again, the school buildings are in disrepair because those living there vandalize those buildings.

Hospitals and other community services are abused and vandalized as well. Police are given zero respect, hence they avoid becoming involved in those parts of the city.

Many of the people we are talking about already live in public housing that they destroy, regardless of how often it is rebuilt.

This article is written by a typical liberal elite who does not understand the cultural issues they have created via years of social programs and multicultural forgiveness.

[sergeantdave]

Our communist governor is in the midst of raising taxes and “fees” to attract business to Michigan. (How about a tax on bottled water to attract business?)

In response to her genuis leadership, unemployment shot up to 7.9% in July - the highest in the country. The state continues to post negative growth quarter after quarter. Businesses are fleeing, with some downtown districts looking like a movie set for a 1930’s depression film. Tourism in rural counties is dying. (She wants to tax - raise “fees” - fish you catch.) Motels are being converted to “apartments” in hope of attracting welfare clients whose rent is paid by government (taxpayers).

And young people moving out of this socialist paradise continues to be our primary export.

Liberals (communists) are idiots.

[ClaireSolt]

I thought you had a nice alternative to her in the last election, but she won.

[Jim Noble]

Only a true revolution could wrest control away from them at this point

They have been itching for a fight since 2000.

If, as I expect, Hillary is elected in a four way race with less than 40% of the popular vote, perhaps their wishes will come true.

[facedown]

Good grief, has this "writer" ever HAD a job? Ever met a payroll?

Yes and no.

Gary N. Chaison

Professor of Industrial Relations

BBA, MBA, Baruch College of the City University of New York, 1966, 1967; PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1972. Lecturer, Baruch College, 1968-1969; Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970-1973; Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts, 1979-1980; Assistant Professor, 1973-1977, Associate Professor, 1977-1981, University of New Brunswick (Canada). At Clark University since 1981.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Actually a pretty strong case could be made (by someone), that it is liability lawyers, which have caused American jobs to flee offshore.

Price is one reason, certainly. But we are far, and away, the most litigious nation on Earth.

Businesses face increasing liability nightmares every day.

Now granted, if the Republican party cannot even make a good succinct public case discrediting the Democrat party mantra about Iraq, it probably cannot make the case against trial lawyers — but trial lawyers really are the problem.

We so very much need another Republican leader who can TALK. Someone who can state simple truths in such a way as to influence opinion.

Then we need that leader to explain to Americans, why we need to free our shrinking industrial base, from the hide-bound regulations and legal mess. Limiting liability, especially for any company either starting-up, or competing with any foreign supplier.

Including the foreign supplier Wal-mart.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Looters and moochers.

</shrugging>

[mewzilla]

Dear Mr. Chaison: Last I looked the states of MA and NY, my state, were bleeding jobs and people. The nanny state approach to economics works real well, don't it?

SNORT.