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The left is obsessed with equality in everything. They want everyone to make the same salary regardless of the difficulty of the job, the danger in the job, the amount of education needed for the job, one’s skill and competence.

So if a toll collector gets the same salary as a brain surgeon, why would anyone go through all the rigorous training needed to become one? Just take a no-brainer job.

Liberalism is a mental illness.”””””

There are other factors which the WH & Ms Jarrett deliberately fail to include in the discussion.

IF I have a woman of child-bearing age on my staff & she decides to have a baby, then I have to let her take off for up to 6 weeks & try to run the office without her or find temporary staff to fill that slot. That is after a number of missing hours for visits to the doctor, etc. Telling me to increase the amount of ‘sick time’ I offer in my company is not the answer, either. I am being forced to carry a part-time person at full time pay & all the seniority increases they really have NOT earned.

There is some confusion with people I have talked to as to whether I am required to PAY this employee while they are doing absolutely ZERO to enhance my business. IF I am required to pay them- then I am getting nothing in return & may have to get hit with the pay of the temporary person, also. That affects my bottom line & can spell the difference in keeping the company open for every employee. At the least, I will have to raise my costs to my customers.

IF I prove I can run the company without this person for 6 weeks, I have to rethink as to whether I even need this woman on the staff in the first place.

This is another form of feather-bedding, mixed with affirmative action hiring.

The other side of this whole discussion is that the value of a person’s skills is what makes them a wage or salary.

Paying the JANITOR who has 9 kids the same amount of money as the BRAIN SURGEON who is single & NEVER gets married is an argument I have heard for 50 years.

Telling me that I have to pay the janitor more money because he has 9 kids doesn’t fly with me. That man chooses to be a janitor. He chooses to have 9 kids. His value in the marketplace is not improved or enhanced by the 9 kids he now has to support. He can get a 2nd or a 3rd job if he needs to or he can think harder about bringing 9 mouths into the world to feed. His choices are not my responsibility. Liberals who think so can open their own wallets to do so in their company, but you will not get to apply the same to me without a fight. I would carve back my organization to the bare minimum before I would carry unproductive employees by fiat.

The quality of workers coming out of school today is appalling. They have been told how ‘special’ they are from the age of 4 & the parents never qualified those remarks by saying ‘YOU are special to US- your parents.

The media & the movies & other sources of information about self-worth are equally guilty of failing to explain anywhere along the path from 4 to 24 that your value to others outside of your home is measured by what skills you have, how you energetically apply those skills & what the demand is for those skills in the marketplace of business.
Getting an advanced degree in FRENCH ART & then expecting me to apply that educational effort to the job opening for a front desk receptionist & dispatcher isn’t helping my company at all. We are a construction company—not an art gallery.

IF you have a college education, I would expect to have to give you very little ‘On The Job Training’ to adjust you to the methods my company uses in your job slot. I am not going to pay big bucks for a person that I have to give ON THE JOB TRAINING to from the basics on up. If I advertise that this opening requires an EXPERIENCED person, I expect just that—EXPERIENCE!!! I also am not going to have a new hire get the same pay as a person who has already proved to me that they can show up to work on time, be clean & presentable to customers with the standards I demand, behave according to my company rules pertaining to outside interruptions during your work time (phone calls-twittering-I-Pods-etc). You have not proven to me your ability to put out the volume of work that is expected. You have not proven to me that you are drug & alcohol free, as the standards of my company would require. IF you are a driver of my company truck, you must be able to pass unannounced substance abuse tests which the insurance company & the government requires. I don’t need you if marijuana is your favorite item or you think that drinking is ordinary & acceptable. You had also better have a clean criminal record. I am not running a rehab location- I am running a business!!!!

In other words- can you do the work & WILL you do the work in a manner that shows me you really want this job?

MIX all of the above with this administrations openly advocating “CARD CHECK, which would make every employee a union member & you have a total JOB KILLER.

No amount of “tax breaks” will entice me to hire you.

Everything this NObama group hatches in their evil back rooms is an economy buster for the USA.

Wonder where they all think they are going to be living & working when they have destroyed this country. ???