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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI do despise the Job Creators™
Note that many actual job creators are not Job Creators, kind of like how many actual nice guys are not Nice Guys. Job creators can come from all classes, from the local shopkeeper who employs teenagers in their first jobs, to mega-successful CEOs who own multiple factories across America.
Job Creators, however, are a particularly loathsome bunch who aren't deserving of their grossly self-congratulating and self-proclaimed title.
Their fundamental philosophy is that since they have more money, they have more rights than those who have less. Simple as that. That's what Citizens United is about. It's not One Person, One Vote. It's One Dollar, One Vote. Job Creators have no guilt over this laughable perversion of democracy because they believe that wealth is an accurate reflection of their talent, wisdom, intelligence, and deserved privilege.
There are some CEOs in this country who are trying to coerce their workers into voting a certain way. And why shouldn't these Job Creators get their way? After all, they are rich, and their employees aren't!
Job Creators are extremely defensive of their wealth and the prestige of "Business©". They have no appreciation for humanitarian work, culture and art (unless it means hoarding up all Van Goghs of the world to win a dick-measuring contest), academia, etc. Secretly, they know deep inside that they're relatively unexceptional human beings who have often made their money in the business of bullshit. They have no real talent besides a willingness to be a bigger sociopath than their peers, and because of this, they have an insecurity complex and an immensely thin skin which can be seen in their hysterical pouting whenever the White House doesn't bow down to them at every turn. They convince themselves, and try to do the same to others, that Business© in and of itself is a noble pursuit, and that successful businessmen are automatically on par with the great scientists, thinkers, artists, reformers, humanitarians, and teachers of the world.
Job Creators also want to do away with government services so that society will be wholly dependent on them. They want to lord over the population with this selective benevolence, which to paraphrase the great George Costanza can be summed up as: "People would line up to ask me to help them! And if I felt like it, I would! And then they'd owe me big time!" That is neither benevolence or generosity, but rather a monstrous ego streak running dangerously wild.
Moreover, they desire such powers of welfare so that they may wreak their own prejudice upon the population. Government is forced to be egalitarian and blind in which segment it helps, but a Job Creator doesn't. Don't like gays? Don't have to help them. Don't like inner-city minorities? Ignore them. Only want to help out White Christians whose women dutifully refuse to intermarry with other races? Go at it, Mr. Job Creator, sir.
After all, you are rich!
To hell with you, Job Creators. The more you think about it, the more you see the similarities between them at the dreaded Nice Guys. They both think they're entitled to gratitude and love and affection for no real good reasons, and when they shockingly don't get it, they turn nasty and vindictive.
obxhead
(8,434 posts)Jobs are created by demand. Employers will never hire someone to create demand, they will ONLY hire when a demand must be met by hiring more labor.
When the middle class is doing well, massive amounts of demand for products and services create jobs.
WE are the job creators, not business.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)begin_within
(21,551 posts)to make the "job creators" seem like some kind of holy people who can create jobs out of thin air, at will.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)I've seen enough of these people - they want control over others and the money gives it to them - it happens among the modestly rich.
Look at how Mittens' kids go on vacation with him and work for him - they are tied with golden handcuffs.