3 September 2006 - 10:53pm
The detached confusion of George Will
If you missed This Week this week, you missed George Will making one of the strangest assertions I've heard (video):
That the fact that 25,000 people applied for 350 low-wage jobs at a new Wal-Mart is a sign of a strong economy.
Excuse me?
25 thousand people desperate to work at a job that will still leave their families below the poverty line. This is supposed to be a good thing?
24,650 people bummed because they can't work for minimum wage? This is supposed to be the sign of a healthy economy?
Of course, this is coming from the guy who sees contracted and earned corporate pensions as "entitlements" (and thus somehow undeserved). I suppose it's not news that George Will needs to come down from his ivory tower.
Life's a little harder if you're not pulling down six or seven figures from ABC News.
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Personaly, I don't consider using Walmart as a guage for measuring jobs a good thing. Walmart doesn't provide jobs, they provide poor paying, low benefit, survival pay (which you can't survive on).
This is one of the worst employers in America in my opinion.
I would never shop at this Corporate greedy machine.
We saw Terry Malloy in "On the Waterfront" hoping to be picked to work the docks.
When you have people lining up to get low paying jobs, something is terribly wrong. How does this square with the cry that undocumented workers are needed because no documented workers will take the jobs.
Is there a large underclass that is slowly congealing? Is the American middle class truly a by-gone phenomenon?