{"id":6190,"date":"2015-06-03T18:24:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:24:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-06-03T18:24:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:24:46","slug":"ap_redefines_unemployment_as_liberation_for_employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/06\/03\/ap_redefines_unemployment_as_liberation_for_employees\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Redefines Unemployment as Liberation for Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: I mentioned in the previous hour working 9-to-5 is becoming a less popular way to make a living. This is an AP story.<\/a> Now, listen. This is absurd, and this is part and parcel of the ongoing Democrat Party agenda. This is how you cover for a rotten economy. “If you want an income, or you\u2019re an employer looking for help, it may be time to scrap the idea of the traditional 9-to-5 arrangement.” Yes.<\/p>\n

“For workers –” I prefer employees or associates “– it has become easier and less risky to go solo. Affordable health-insurance plans, which kept many workers shackled to traditional jobs, are more accessible because of the Affordable Care Act. And companies are increasingly open to hiring freelancers and independent contractors. Many say independent workers bring fresh ideas without the long-term commitment.”<\/p>\n

Do you realize what BS this is? The reason why 9-to-5 is becoming less popular is because there are fewer 9-to-5 jobs. A 9-to-5 job, usually, not always, but generally is something that is part of a career path. There are fewer 9-to-5 jobs because there are fewer full-time jobs, and there are fewer full-time jobs because of Obamacare. Companies are off-loading full-time employees because they cannot afford it. Obamacare says that full time employees must be covered by Obamacare. They define full time as 30 hours a week, which is in itself a bad move. A 40-hour week has always been full time. <\/line><\/p>\n

But now here comes the Regime defining downward: The full-time week is 30 hours, and so businesses are off-loading people and converting them to part time and having them work less than 30 to escape the requirement to provide them health care. I don\u2019t know if you caught this as I read this, but let me read this to you again. “Affordable health insurance plans, which kept many workers shackled to traditional jobs, are more accessible because of” Obamacare.<\/p>\n

The point they\u2019re trying to make here is this Obamacare health care is so much cheaper now, you don\u2019t have to be a full-time employee to get the benefit anymore and you\u2019re free from the “shackles” of working for these idiot, unfair, racist, sexist, bigoted bosses. This is journalistic malpractice. This is how a willing accomplice in the media covers for an absolute disastrous economic policy that is directly traceable to the Obama administration. This is just absurd. <\/p>\n

Work is not becoming less important. <\/p>\n

Work is just as necessary and just as needed as it always has been. It leads to productivity. It is productivity! The idea that people are cutting back on their hours because they\u2019re freer and Obamacare is cheaper and they found ways to be more productive is crazy. There\u2019s another hidden attempt in this paragraph, too, and it is to convey the idea that working 40 hours a week, that\u2019s so old-fashioned. It\u2019s just so yesterday. We don\u2019t have to do that anymore. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s part of the establishment\u2019s trick to make you a slave to your company and a slave to your boss. But since Obama\u2019s come along and made health care so much more affordable and cheaper that you don\u2019t have to be shackled to these people. Right. You don\u2019t even have to work 40 hours a week and you don\u2019t have to be paid as much anymore and therefore you don\u2019t have any uplifting great, positive attitudes about your future. We see the trends in the polling data. <\/p>\n

The number of people who think the country\u2019s going in the wrong direction, 60-plus percent. The number of people who think kids are not gonna do as well as their parents, 60-some-odd percent. There\u2019s negativism associated in the US economy in a majority position all across the board. African-American unemployment is in the 25 percentile range. And here comes the good old dependable AP to literally lie to people. “Working 9-to-5 has become less popular,” as though people are in charge of it!<\/p>\n

As though workers are deciding, “You know what, man? I don\u2019t need to do that 9-to-5 gig anymore. No, that\u2019s not for me, man. I can get everything I used to have doing less than 9-to-5. I don\u2019t need to be shackled to some boss. I don\u2019t need to be shackled to some company. I don\u2019t need to be shackled to Koch brothers. I don\u2019t need to do that. I can work when I want to work. I can afford health care all I want now, and I can really be free to be me.” It\u2019s a crock. There has yet to be invented the substitute for work, other than being a member of the Lucky Sperm Club. <\/p>\n

Outside of that, there is no substitute for it. (interruption) You can choose to work as hard or as little as you want, but there will be consequences for your actions. The problem in America today — and the real attitude most people have (and it\u2019s a very dispiriting one) — is more and more people think that no matter how hard they work, it isn\u2019t gonna pay off. That\u2019s the negative attitude they have. That\u2019s because of the current economic policies. <\/p>\n

And the reason they feel that, even though they may not know it, is where they work in the United States economy is shrinking, and it is shrinking because the Obama administration (i.e., the federal government) is taking bigger and bigger chunks of it. So the Obama administration is actually responsible for the pie that everybody wants a piece of shrinking and getting smaller. <\/p>\n

So there\u2019s so much competition for pieces of the pie that you have to work even harder than you used to to get the same size piece that was available 10, 20 years ago. That\u2019s the truth of the matter. But it\u2019s not that people have so much freedom now, so much disposable income, they\u2019re making so much money and health care\u2019s so much cheaper so they don\u2019t have to be “shackled” from 9-to-5.<\/p>\n

The vast majority of people that are looking for work would love a 9-to-5, would love a full-time job with the standard benefits package that they\u2019re accustomed to. They would love it. But this piece comes along and acts like that\u2019s an antique, that\u2019s old-fashioned, and it\u2019s been brought about by the modernization of the economy by Obama. “An industry dedicated…” Back to the story: “An industry dedicated to serving the companies that offer freelance and contract work and the people who fill those openings is growing.”<\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just part time. People are becoming independent contractors and so forth because it\u2019s all there is. There aren\u2019t full-time jobs out there. It\u2019s not choices people are making. It says here, “Gigs can be found at a number of websites, such as Upwork.com and Freelancer.com, or through hiring services that connect professional freelancers and companies. And companies that provide shared rented office space, such as WeWork, lets freelancers mingle with fellow contractors.” <\/p>\n

This offends me, big time, major. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This part-time business, this 9-to-5 becoming a less popular way to work? You know what this is (except it\u2019s on steroids)? Back during the nineties for those of you that don\u2019t remember, Clinton lied every time he opened his mouth. It was just remarkable, and the media was writing stories on how lying is now good. “Lying is really helpful at times! Lying saves people embarrassment. It prevents people from feelings hurt. I mean, it\u2019s actually a very compassionate thing.” <\/p>\n

We got all these excuses for why lying was good. So now here we have an economy that\u2019s literally in the tank. I mean, the US economy is contracting and people can\u2019t find work and employers love hiring part-timers because it frees them from Obamacare, and AP comes along and writes about this as though it\u2019s some sort of liberation for employees!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Frugality of High Earners in US Shows Long Shadow of Recession.”<\/a> Now, we just had this story from the AP. This is Bloomberg business. We just had this story from the AP which talks about, “Wow, you know, so many independent contractors, and Obamacare is so cheap, the nine-to-five jobs are so unhip anymore. People are so much freer and so able to work only part-time and contractor jobs, it\u2019s a beautiful thing.” <\/p>\n

“Frugality of High Earners in US Shows Long Shadow of Recession.” This is a story from the Drive-By Media upset that the 1% are not spending their money, upset that the rich are hoarding their money, upset because this is having the deleterious effect on the economy at large, \u2019cause when they don\u2019t spend money, there are people that work in stores that don\u2019t have things to sell, and employees at stores that don\u2019t have sales to ring up, and stockers that don\u2019t have anything to put on the shelves.<\/p>\n

All because the rich aren\u2019t spending their money. You know, you can\u2019t please the media. One year they\u2019re writing the American people don\u2019t save enough. The next year they write the American people are saving too much and not spending enough. It just depends on where the Democrat agenda happens to be on the day they decide to write the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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