Dismal Jobs Report as Obama Kills Full-Time Jobs and Hurts the Opportunity for Young People to Have Careers. By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, July 8, 2013.
Rush:
Another
way to look at a full-time job is a career. You know, there’s all kinds of
work. There’s entry level work, which is minimum wage, where you enter the
workforce and just learn what it's all about, getting a paycheck for showing up
on time and all that. And then there are jobs you do to help supplant your
existence, when you’re in school, if you do that. But then at some point in
your life you figure out what you want to do. At some point in your life, if
you’re lucky, you learn what you love. A lot of people never do, so their job
never is any more than a job, something they have to do.
Some
people actually find out what they love. And that takes on a whole different
meaning to them than just the job. It’s a career, and it’s the definition of
who they are. Other people find full-time work, and it is a career in the sense
that there is advancement if you do well, but they may not be doing what they
love. And that’s the group I’m talking about. The opportunity – you know, a job
is one thing; a career is another. Because a career is where you devote
yourself to improving and advancing, climbing the ladder, as it were. I’m
sorry; with only 47% of working adults working full time, we’re not even
developing careers for people to exploit and to experience and to conquer.
Now,
this is massive change from what the American jobs universe used to be. The
American jobs universe contained all the jobs and types of jobs that we have
today, but there were certainly far more career opportunities than there are
today. And the career opportunities are directly relatable to the number of
jobs that no longer exist. Now with Obamacare and companies converting full
time to part time, you can wave good-bye to a career as a part-timer. You’re not gonna conquer anything part
time. You’re not gonna climb a ladder
part time. And you’re not gonna get
health care part time. And that’s why you're being converted to part time. Because Obamacare is so expensive that
companies are weighing staying in business or going out of business, staying
profitable or not. And contrary to low-information voter beliefs, a company is
not there to provide you health care. It’s
there for a whole lot of other reasons.
. . . .
Plus,
101 million Americans are getting food aid, which is a number larger than the
number of people who have jobs. This is why, folks, some people have said that
I sound like I’m a little cold-hearted when I talk about this. I’m not. If you’re
on unemployment in America, you’ve got your car . . . The way to put this is:
The unemployed are still eating, and so what’s the problem? The unemployed have
their cell phones, they have their cars, they’ve got their flat screens and
food.
Being
unemployed is not what it used to be.
When
you were out of work, you were in dire circumstances, and your unemployment
compensation didn’t come close to substituting what you had lost when you lost
your job. I’m talking about incentives. What’s the incentive to work? It’s not
nearly as big. There isn’t anywhere near the necessity. I’m telling you, I can’t
emphasize enough: You take away the whole notion of careers from the American
jobs experience, or universe, whatever you want to call it?
