Charles Koch’s plan to fix the economy: Destroy minimum wage and ‘addictive’ welfare

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/11/charles-kochs-plan-to-fix-the-economy-destroy-minimum-wage-and-addictive-welfare/



Charles Koch’s plan to fix the economy: Destroy minimum wage and ‘addictive’ welfare
By Travis Gettys
Monday, August 11, 2014 12:52 EDT

Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch has a vision for ending unemployment: replacing the social safety net with low-skill, low-paying jobs.

The chairman and CEO of Koch Industries outlined his economic plan with an opinion piece published Monday by USA Today, where he expressed deep concern over chronic underemployment and diminished opportunities for younger or disadvantaged workers.

“The effects of underemployment are not just economic, they are also social and psychological,” Koch said. “Real work is an important part of how we define ourselves. Meaningful work benefits both us and others. Those who lack real jobs often end up depressed, addicted or aggressive.”

Koch argued that welfare benefits provided “addictive disincentives” to work, citing a recent Cato Institute study that found low-income assistance paid more than a minimum wage job in 35 states, and he claimed Obamacare encouraged business owners to hire part-time workers instead of full-time employees.

[shenmue]

1. What a piece of shit

Let's hurtle back to the 1930s. Pricks.

[Fuddnik]

2. If you lazy fucks would just be born right, there'd be no problem.

Why can't you just inherit money like I did! Anyone too lazy to inherit a billion dollars is to lazy to live.

[wilt the stilt]

3. their philanthropy

is nothing more than advertising. If it was true their names wouldn't be attached.

[Warpy]

4. Well, there is a worse addiction than wages and welfare

It's called "eating." Now if the all knowing, all powerful Koch brothers could figure out how to break us of that silly addiction, they could begin to sell us on the proposition that jobs are a privilege and we should be grateful to work for nothing.