Job Creators & Other Conservative Myths

Job Creators. Sounds great doesn’t it, but who are they? They are actually us – the American consumers. But today’s conservatives have spun this into political rhetoric and use it to describe polar opposite employers. On the one hand they feign concern about the small business owner’s burden by federal minimum wage standards while simultaneously voicing outrage at the mere suggestion that the wealthy need to pay their fair share in taxes. They convince their supporters that paying a fair wage hurts business and padding the coffers of the wealthy creates jobs. The definition “job creator” is very subjective in today’s political battleground, but the fact remains that while this double-talking swill is spewed by the “Party of No”, people are truly suffering.

With all that said it is unbelievable to me that conservative politicians literally have the audacity to state publicly that the minimum wage is too high – and even more unbelievable to me that the majority of their voting bloc in numbers are the very people who will be adversely affected by this ongoing assault on the American poor.

They admit not knowing what the minimum wage is but they think it is too high. The overt ignorance and discrimination against poor people is sickening. There is absolutely a total lack of understanding or compassion for the struggles that plague most Americans these days where too many jobs don’t come close to paying a livable wage. If Boehner & Co. have all the answers, where the hell are they? Romney can’t enlighten us either. Why? Because they not only do not have a plan for creating jobs, they really could care less, and if they follow the same beaten path of their Republican predecessors all those minions that can’t wait to oust a black man from the White House are going to be among the first to be devastated by these failed austerity policies that are blighting Europe.