gut;1577306 wrote:The right types of people can be (which is a very difficult thing to achieve with policy). For example, one effect of the Great Recession is people who would normally have retired have had to keep working to build their savings back up. That lack of promotional opportunities for younger workers trickles all the way down. If you're not at full employment, people voluntarily reducing hours isn't a bad thing.
But unless you are at full employment, one person reducing their hours creates opportunity for additional hours for someone else...unless businesses are actually eliminating those jobs/hours. So the hours worked really shouldn't drop. And like I said, this just doesn't pass the smell test because the low wage workers the CBO is talking about here mostly didn't have employer provided insurance nor were they purchasing private policies.
This goes back to the "what if a Republican said it?" If during W's term he initiated a program that the CBO reported would result in this reduction of employment he'd be vilified by the Left and their bootlicking mainstream media and likely impeached. I can't imagine to many GOP/Libertarians defending the program.
But now we have the bootlickers acting in the opposite manner. Obama has made his own supporters look even dumber than I thought they did in the '12 election.
