{"id":8978,"date":"2014-07-07T16:28:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-07-07T16:28:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:28:40","slug":"why_the_google_guys_and_all_leftists_want_more_part_time_workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/07\/07\/why_the_google_guys_and_all_leftists_want_more_part_time_workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Google Guys (and All Leftists) Want More Part-Time Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I checked the e-mail during the break, and I\u2019m getting a little bit of ahead of myself, but I\u2019m gonna answer this. “Rush, why would the Google guys be all in favor of more part-time jobs?” Ladies and gentlemen, part-time work has been the goal of socialists for years. I mean, the French have tried to reduce the workweek to 30 hours for years, and there\u2019s a reason for it from their perspective. <\/p>\n

Larry Page even addresses this, as you will hear when I get to this. It\u2019s done to disguise the fact that there are fewer jobs. Look, we\u2019ve got 95 to a hundred million Americans not working, right? Well, that\u2019s even an embarrassment to the socialists. So if you convert a significant number of full-time jobs to part-time jobs, you can end up hiring people. You don\u2019t have to create any new jobs whatsoever. <\/line><\/p>\n

You just divvy \u2019em up. Each job is now done by two or three people. So you put more people to work, and you have your welfare state to provide for them what their jobs do not. You have a shorter workweek. You have shorter work hours. You\u2019ve got happier people thanking the government for this new lifestyle change, voting for Democrats left and right, and you get to hire more people.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to pay them health care because there\u2019s a 30-hour minimum per week, so you off-load that to the government. This is the way the socialists “spread the wealth around.” They don\u2019t create any new jobs. The one thing they know is socialism is not about creating jobs, folks. It never has been. Socialism is about government providing for people — and there\u2019s no such thing as debt or too much debt. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not in the equation, particularly here in the United States. “Debt? We spend whatever we want to spend! This is how we spread the wealth around. You don\u00c2\u2019t have to create a single new job. We just divvy every job up into two or three jobs, make everybody a part-timer, and they\u2019re working. Then you say, ‘Look what we\u2019ve done!<\/p>\n

‘We expanded the number of people working. We bring down unemployment. We bring down that number.'” But it\u2019s for part-time work, and it\u2019s all about the illusion of there being more jobs — and, in fact, we are seeing that in our own jobs reports. It\u2019s sort of a form of featherbedding, if you want to look at it that way. But the point of it is that the whole idea of full-time work not possible in America anymore. Those days are gone. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the mind-set that\u2019s problematic.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Liz in Salt Lake City. Hi, Liz. Glad you called. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling in regard to the insurance and Obamacare. My daughter has a 20-year-old boyfriend and he had his hours cut. He just works at a restaurant trying to make his way and he got his hours cut because of Obamacare. They can\u2019t afford to pay for the insurance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, by design.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s covered under his parents\u2019 insurance so he doesn\u2019t even need the insurance, but yet now he has to go look for another job to try to help pay his way through college.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. See, that\u2019s what we have learned. No, no, no. No, no, no. Part-time is it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Larry Page, the Google cofounder, this is exactly what we want. We want his job done by an additional two or three people. That\u2019s how we actually get more people working without creating any new jobs. Because socialism doesn\u2019t create jobs. It creates government bloat. So what we need is people like your daughter\u2019s boyfriend being converted to part-time and then staying there so he can spend more time with you and your daughter and have a more well-rounded, enjoyable life. And then get subsidized for Obamacare, and then two other people can share the hours that he did have. They won\u2019t have health insurance, either, but Obamacare will take care of that. And we got happiness all over America with people spending family time together, well-rounded lives, not dominated by work. It\u2019s happening exactly as the left wants it to happen, Liz.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to one of the things I teased at the beginning of the program. I got into some of it, so it\u2019s not a full-fledged tease. Larry Page, who is the CEO of Google and one of the cofounders appeared in an interview recently with Sergey Brin, his buddy, another cofounder.<\/p>\n

The interviewer was Vinod Khosla, who is a longtime technology investor. He tried to buy Google when it first started. He\u2019s Silicon Valley. He\u2019s in tight, highly respected. He was able to get these two guys to come on his whatever it is, Internet show, and Larry Page said that the future of the American workforce is gonna be part time. He thinks most people want to work, but that they would be happy working less.<\/line><\/p>\n

This is Larry Page now, Google CEO, and he said in this interview: We have enough resources to provide for humanity. “The idea that everyone needs to work frantically to meet people\u00c2\u2019s needs is just not true.”<\/p>\n

Now, stop and think of that. You talk about a transformation. Think of the fundamental philosophical change that represents. I don\u2019t know about you, I was raised to believe that whatever I wanted and whatever I needed, I was gonna have to provide. And I did that by getting a job. And if there were something I wanted but couldn\u2019t afford, I waited until I could. And I kept working hard, and I kept following my passion, and eventually if I got good, I would be similarly rewarded and so forth.<\/p>\n

I was raised that you get out what you put in. The harder you work, the more your award, and it may not be instant. It may take a long time for the payoff, but that there was value in that. There was value in following a passion. There was value in gaining experience. There was value in work. It was self-defining. It was work that provided self-esteem, not a teacher in kindergarten. It was your work. It was what you did. It was what you accomplished. That\u2019s what spoke for you, in addition to other things. I mean, it wasn\u2019t just your work, but work was how you provided. <\/p>\n