Good Grief… Looney Left Is Turning to SEIU Socialist Andy Stern For Advice on Creating Jobs
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, September 9, 2010, 2:26 PM
Good grief…
The left is hoping that radical union organizer Andy Stern can help them turn the economy around.
Here’s a clue, leftists… Taking advice from a committed socialist on job creation will not likely lift the US out of the Obama Depression.
Barack Obama is pictured with close friend and union thug Andy Stern (on right).
Leftist wunderkind Ezra Klein of Journolist fame believes former SEIU President and radical socialist Andy Stern holds the key to job creation.
Sure he does.
Here’s one of Stern’s ideas– Don’t cut jobs, Cut hours:
1) Adopt Job Sharing
This is an idea, supported by Kevin Hassett from the American Enterprise Institute and Dean Baker from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, that could rally broad support from the left and the right.
Both experts testified earlier this year that Congress should consider a plan that enables companies to avoid shedding employees by reducing hours instead of firing workers. If hours and wages are reduced by 10 percent or more, workers would receive a federal subsidy for 60 percent of their lost salary. As the economy truly begins to recover, employers would be able to add new employees rather than increase hours for existing employees until the recovery is on a self-sustaining path.
Reducing the rate of job loss by just 10 percent would have the same effect on employment as if the economy generated an additional 200,000 jobs a month or 2.4 million a year. Germany’s unemployment rate dropped from 9.1 percent to 7.6 percent after implementing such a policy in January.
Congress should immediately take up one of several bills that take this idea to a national scale.
Jobs Created/Saved: 2.4 million
Cost: $54 billion
Pay-for: Loans to Unemployment Insurance (UI) Funds to be repaid with a small UI surtax starting in 2013 on all employers.
Ultimate cost to Taxpayers: Zero
Great idea.
Don’t cut jobs, just cut hours.
And, Klein is supposed to be the smart one in the crowd?
Good luck libs.
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Andreas K. commented:
Adopt Job Sharing
That works for a while. There have been plenty of companies over here that did that. For the workers that was usually the one sign that they should start searching for a new job as those companies always went bankrupt after a while.
Also, stuff like that was done in the USSR. The most famous example I can think of was bus drivers. You had one bus and three drivers for it on duty. One was the actual driver. The second was the replacement in case of emergency and the third was… the replacement for the replacement.
Where that led to we all know.
Militant Conservative commented:
Obama is an epic failure and a roaring success.
His whole agenda is poison to America but this was his goal all along. Thus he’s a soaring success at distroying America and the intelectual pygmys (electorate) fell for his platitudes. Now watch what happens in 55 days. powder is dry.
Al Hussein Bin Obama's Brother In A Mud Hut commented:
The left is hoping that radical union organizer Andy Stern can help them turn the economy around.
That’s almost as brilliant as putting an affirmative action community organizer in the White House. We might as well ask the homeless on skid row what there thoughts on creating jobs are.
Khan Krum commented:
Soviet Union 2.0
JKB commented:
This worked during the Depression because on person would let another take half their hours (and half their pay). Of course, now we have government regulation which make it impossible to split a job since health insurance, workers comp, UI, etc., all hinge on bodies not hours.
So, yes, let’s enable job sharing. All we have to do is dismantle the
socialistutopia created by the New Deal.Just_Saying commented:
So, the feds will be handing out more money ’til the economy recovers enough that people add hours, instead of people? So, the unemployment rate won’t increase, by stats?
Isn’t this really just redefining unemployment?
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Scott commented:
If Washington, forget Obama the real power is in the house and Senate, had an energy policy instead of an energy destruction policy, America could fill hundreds of thousands if not millions of new jobs. Jobs in drilling, exploration, mining, construction, engineering, transportation…The democrats have been on a path of destruction in terms of energy exploration and production for at least four decades now. The trade deficit is due mainly to our importing 70% of oil and gas products. If nuclear had been pursued as it was in Japan and France we would likely be driving electric cars charged with clean nuclear power…NUTS! In their desire to save the world from nuclear power the democrats gave fossil fuels another fifty years, at least, of viability…
tarpon commented:
And here I thought the height of stupid was the UAW beating up on the UAW over GM factory closures.
Union are so last century.
Nick commented:
Christmas in November is just around the corner!
Scott commented:
Washington is truly a deadzone…Obama and his merry band of academics, union bosses, and political appointees who have never created a job, run a business, or had to sweat meeting a payroll are to be our salvation…God help us please. I’m afraid that running a business is not the same as voting present in the Senate Mr. Obama. I have found it to be mostly blood, sweat, tears, and years of toil…
Neo commented:
Leftist wunderkind Ezra Klein of Journolist fame believes
Well, at least you didn’t say “thinks” because he doesn’t know how to do such a thing.
Andy Stern ? I thought our
PresidentMessiah knew it all.Oh oh … that’s right .. his only accomplishment/ability is getting people to sit down together in a room. Nothing might happen after that, but hey, they are in the room. Thank God for small wonders.
Neo commented:
[With other poor black seniors, watching Chance on TV]
Louise: It’s for sure a white man’s world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I’ll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th’ ears. Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you’ve gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want. Gobbledy-gook!
american patriot commented:
What we will NOT hear of course are the two options that would be CERTAIN to create jobs,
1. Reduce taxes, which in the case of certain taxes means out and out elimination,
2. Ban governmental unionization. This trick on the taxpayers has only been around since the late 1950s, so we have historical evidence that the country can easily prosper without unionized tax consumers. What is more, it is really hard to swallow the fiction that government union contracts are “negotiated.” In this fiction “management” is play-acted by government bureaucrats who in turn had been appointed by the politicians, using the taxpayers’ monies, to horse-trade votes from the other “adversarial” party.
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KR commented:
So how does this GROW the economy?
At this point BO is the one that should be job sharing with say…
Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin, Allen West,…
KR commented:
Agent 99,
I bet the muslims in Indonesia are feeling a little sheepish now about burning the American flag in protest.
Aside from the snark, if the mega mosque is moved sufficiently away from GZ, then that’s good.
I don’t think this will be the end of the controversy though.
Mark1957 commented:
1) Adopt Job Sharing;
“Reducing the rate of job loss by just 10 percent would have the same effect on employment as if the economy generated an additional 200,000 jobs a month or 2.4 million a year. ”
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! That is like saying we could cut everyone’s pay by half and hire twice as many people.
KR commented:
Oh, this will be interesting. Now the Westboro church says it may burn korans.
The left usually defends this church for protesting military funerals. Freedom of speech of course. Who cares if anyone (who is non-muslim) is deeply offended.
Hedgehog commented:
What would happen if Andy Stern shared his job with someone who is not a Communist?
Valerie commented:
Dustbin of history stuff.
S. Wolf commented:
It’s those purple shirts..
“I intend to be the best union president in the history of the United States..I’ve spent my entire adult life working with SEIU. I’m not a newcomer to this,” Obama said. “I didn’t suddenly discover SEIU on the campaign trail. Oh, y’all organize. You wear purple, do you?”
Zero.. the first union organizer who ever lucked into the WH. Even Jimmy Hoffa would be an improvement..
Paddy commented:
The process Stern promotes is a form of featherbedding. The same number of peopled doing one-half as much is no different than doubling the workforce to do the same amount of work as prior to the expansion. Corrupt and evil.
Paddy commented:
PS: Consulting Stern is like asking the Devil for advice about how to become a more prolific sinner.
Taxpayer1234 commented:
Not full time? No benefits for you OR the person you’re forced to share a job with.
Of course, unions would be exempt from such an edict….
squeaky commented:
“Not full time? No benefits for you OR the person you’re forced to share a job with.” while sterns thinks this would be a solution – wouldn’t a company employing the same plan on their own have union clods picketing on their doorstep?
and from new zeal and frances fox piven of cloward-piven
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/09/frances-fox-piven-advocating-violence.html
Marie commented:
‘That’s almost as brilliant as putting an affirmative action community organizer in the White House.’
I am soooo glad the smartest people in the world are in charge. I am sure that the red tape in administering said program would be minimumal. Right?
myohmy commented:
Fidel Castro admitted that communism is a failure.
I can see November in my porch.
gus commented:
WTF does Andrew Stern know about CREATING ANYTHING?
WTF is wrong with this country??