The economy is, by all metrics, doing great. Last month 300,000 new jobs were added and the unemployment rate remained at 4%. Not enough, say democrats. We don’t want merely simple jobs, we need moral jobs. We need a moral economy:
Democrats running for president in 2020 say the rapid job growth and low unemploymentunder President Trump is not enough and insist America needs to strive for a “moral” economy.
Their calls reflect a growing consensus among Democrats over how to deal with a healthy economy that is creating jobs and the rising influence of socialist candidates and lawmakers in the Democratic Party.
The U.S. economy added 304,000 new jobs in January, and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.0 percent, according to the Department of Labor. The country’s gross domestic product increased last quarter by 3.4 percent.
When liberals talk about social and economic justice, this is the economic justice part.
“What happened to a moral responsibility, to a moral capitalism?” former Vice President Joe Biden asked an audience of students Tuesday during an event at the University of Pennsylvania.
This is the prelude to government run and controlled businesses.
“I’m not looking for charity. Business is not in business to be in charity, it’s to make money. But the last dime does not dictate what corporate responsibility should be,” the former 36-year longtime senator from Delaware said.
“And look, I don’t begrudge anybody making a million or hundreds of millions of dollars, I really don’t. But I do think there’s some shared responsibility, and it’s not being shared fairly for hard-working, middle-class, working-class people.”
This makes no sense and it is disingenuous. Talking out of all four sides of his mouth, Biden is preparing to make rules here for how business divvies up its profits.
Sen. Kamala Harris of California, also running for president, made a similar pitch in New Hampshire. The former California attorney told the business-oriented attendees their success shouldn’t be “vilified” because it was created in the “pursuit of the American Dream.”
But she also accused those praising the Trump economy of valuing job quantity over the quality of those jobs.
Except that is vilifying success. One wonders where her concern for the “quality of jobs” was back when obama was replacing high paying jobs with low paying jobs.
WASHINGTON — The deep recession wiped out primarily high-wage and middle-wage jobs. Yet the strongest employment growth during the sluggish recovery has been in low-wage work, at places like strip malls and fast-food restaurants.
In essence, the poor economy has replaced good jobs with bad ones. That is the conclusion of a new report from the National Employment Law Project, a research and advocacy group, analyzing employment trends four years into the recovery.
“Fast food is driving the bulk of the job growth at the low end — the job gains there are absolutely phenomenal,” said Michael Evangelist, the report’s author. “If this is the reality — if these jobs are here to stay and are going to be making up a considerable part of the economy — the question is, how do we make them better?”
The report shows that total employment has finally surpassed its pre-recession level. “The good news is we’re back to zero,” Mr. Evangelist said.
But job losses and gains have been skewed. Higher-wage industries — like accounting and legal work — shed 3.6 million positions during the recession and have added only 2.6 million positions during the recovery. But lower-wage industries lost two million jobs, then added 3.8 million.
Which in essence tells you that she is full of crap. Of course, Cory Booker puts in his two cents:
Pressed on Trump’s economic record last weekend, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, a declared 2020 candidate, said: “Well, working Americans would tell you that the dignity of work is being stripped from them.
“Working Americans would tell you they’re working harder than their parents and falling further behind. Working Americans will tell you that while their salaries may moderately have gone up, what’s gone up more is the cost of prescription drugs, cost of child care, the cost of college.”
I’ll be the first one to agree that secondary education has largely become a scam. Instead of educating young adults, colleges are filling their heads with the left wing indulgences of the demented faculty:
America’s top colleges and universities have bulked up politically correct courses that “malign conservatives,” and Ivy League schools have put a focus anti-Trump offerings, according to a new report from Young America’s Foundation.
Harvard University, Cornell University, Columbia University, and Dartmouth College have created courses that question the Trump presidency, scrutinize his “fake news” charges and call his election a sign of “of an imminent apocalypse.”
The leading conservative youth organization looked at some 50 top colleges and found 250 examples of courses that question conservatism and Trump.
Majoring in “I hate Trump” isn’t just useless in the real world, it’s beyond stupid.
All this claptrap about “moral economies” harks us back to the morals espoused by the father of societal morality- Leon Trotsky.
In his famous polemic on the nature of morality and its place in human society, Trotsky argues that morality is relative to each society, to each epoch, and is above all, relative to the interests of the different social classes. True morality should defend the interests of humanity itself, represented by the working class, and cannot be an absolute idea. Each situation must be analysed on its own merit. For example, if violence is used by a group as a way to defend the interests of the masses as a whole and wave the flag for the greater good then it is justifiable.
In bourgeois democratic countries the interests of the ruling class are masked under an ideal morality, often stemming from religious teachings, in conformity with the well understood interests of the bourgeoisie. They claim that morality is an eternal and absolute ideal, whereas Trotsky argues that the only true morality comes in the form of the representation of the ‘true proletariat’. Trotsky frames his argument under four sub-headings: Historical materialist conception of morality; Leninism versus Stalinism; the ‘Ends and Means’ argument; and Revolutionary morality.
If sounds like a more floral version of the verbiage spilling from the mouths of democrat candidates, it’s no mistake.
The task for revolutionaries is to figure out the guide posts for making these decisions. Revolutionaries must firmly reject ‘official morality’ and fuse a dynamic understanding of the ends and means theory with the concrete situations that they confront. In other words, the central core of Marxism – the working class and its self-emancipation – is the starting point for Marxist morality. Trotsky encourages revolutionaries to construct their own definitions of morality using dialectics, independent of the thoughts and teachings of the ruling classes.
Dailectics- like “moral economy.” Trotsky also believed killing the Tsar’s children was moral.
Now you can understand how Trotsky’s morality brought Stalin to Russia. All this morality nonsense comes down to the “morality” of the dictator, as we see in Venezuela. Speaking of Venezuela, Bernie Sanders, who is bent on bringing Communism to this country, gives us all a clue as to how he would rule if left as dictator. Oh sure, he calls it “progressivism” but that is merely a waypoint to socialism and the goal of socialism is Communism. Bernie, who not long ago bought his third house, refused to call for Maduro to step aide and would not even condemn him.
The degree to which democrats have run to the left is frightening. They are saying things that would make JFK and even Jimmy Carter shudder. The farther we get from the Greatest Generation the more vulnerable we are to this darkness. democrats are pandering to the absolute worst in people- selfishness. They have all become the anti-JFK- “Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.”
My father was part of the greatest generation- a WWII combat vet. He understood hard work and sacrifice. These are concepts the left largely does not understand and their children certainly do not. We have tried to make left better for our children but the left makes the mistake of making things too easy. When society argues about how many genders there are, demanding that transgender women compete in women’s sports and that there such a thing as a “female penis” we are approaching a tipping point. There’s too much time to stand in the streets of Portland beating people who disagree with you in the facade of anti-racism. It’s is a danger sign that there is too much time for self-absorption.
The promise of someone else’s wealth makes them easy prey.
Straight outta Trotsky.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.