Liberal policy putting an entire industry out of work

[Remodeling Maidiac]

My industry has created new substrate materials out of plastic & fiberglass that will put a significant dent in the gypsum & concrete industry. Along with that it only costs SLIGHTLY more than traditional materials but the savings I will see in my labor costs will be SIGNIFICANT.

Progress will always hurt some while helping others. As an example the high tech & manufacturing jobs this will create will grow and the benefits of that far outweigh any minimum wage jobs it took away.

Changing & growing with industry is key to any employee who wants to remain a viable asset to any company.

 

[Pete7469]

We went to Wal Mart the other night and there were just two lines open for cashiers and dozens of people wanting to check out.

We ended up having to use those God forsaken stupid fucking "self checkout" kiosks.

We may as well get used to that I guess, because no child left behind can barely work the damned cash registers as it is and I doubt these companies are going to pay more to these incompetent boobs.

 

[g5000]

If it weren't for the greed of liberal unions, these people would still be employed. Instead, they will now go from low-paying (but good jobs - complete with exceptional benefits) to no jobs with no benefits.

McDonald's Hires 7,000 Touch-Screen Cashiers
(Machines don't go on strike)

Would you like some microchips with that burger? McDonald's Europe strikes another blow against human interaction by installing 7,000 touch-screen computers to take your order and money.

McDonalds recently went on a hiring binge in the U.S., adding 62,000 employees to its roster. The hiring picture doesn't look quite so rosy for Europe, where the fast food chain is drafting 7,000 touch-screen kiosks to handle cashiering duties.

McDonald's hires 7,000 touch-screen cashiers

Luddite

 

[Vandalshandle]

We went to Wal Mart the other night and there were just two lines open for cashiers and dozens of people wanting to check out.

We ended up having to use those God forsaken stupid fucking "self checkout" kiosks.

We may as well get used to that I guess, because no child left behind can barely work the damned cash registers as it is and I doubt these companies are going to pay more to these incompetent boobs.

So, Walmart's failure to have enough cashier's and to make your shopping experience better is the fault of the cashier's that they did not hire?

OoooooKAY!

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

We went to Wal Mart the other night and there were just two lines open for cashiers and dozens of people wanting to check out.

We ended up having to use those God forsaken stupid fucking "self checkout" kiosks.

We may as well get used to that I guess, because no child left behind can barely work the damned cash registers as it is and I doubt these companies are going to pay more to these incompetent boobs.

I goto home depot sevrral times per week and I try to always use the kiosks. It's just so much faster.
Our Walmart on the other hand removed them.

 

[g5000]

This durned newfangled "E" mail thingy is puttin a lotta postal workers out of jobs. We need to stop that!

 

[Vandalshandle]

Henry Ford single handily put an end to the blacksmithing trade. Shame on him!

 

[Pete7469]

It's to be expected. People just priced themselves out of the market. American liberals will have to stop glorifying European style wages and benefits.

Sure, what right do Americans have wanting affordable health care, decent wages, two or three weeks vacation a year.

Mindless sniveling self absorded bed wetting parasites like you disgust me as much as the worst sort of criminals.

In fact like it says below, you must be incredibly stupid to have such vacuous bullshit in the space between your ears, or you're criminally insane and should be strung up like Rudolf Höss.

How you can even entertain the thought that you deserve any of those things merely because you're stealing the oxygen hard working plants produce. You owe the forests an apology.

It's astounding that it doesn't even occur to you that you should have to earn those things through your own efforts.

 

[ClosedCaption]

It's to be expected. People just priced themselves out of the market. American liberals will have to stop glorifying European style wages and benefits.

Sure, what right do Americans have wanting affordable health care, decent wages, two or three weeks vacation a year.

Funny thing about you liberals - you always demand of others what you yourselves are not willing to do (Obama demands that we all act as "our brothers keeper" while he sits on tens of millions of dollars; Al Gore demands a "green" planet while flying around the world every day in a private jet and heating/cooling multiple homes that he's not even living in; and so on).

I hear this a lot and it got a few thanks but I'm wondering what this has to do with the topic itself. Lets pretend for a minute that scientists know science and GW is real. What does Al Gore have to do with its findings? Nothing. What does the way Al Gore travel have to do with the importance of GW? Nothing If Obama gave away every dime would you suddenly take up the mantra of being your brothers keeper? (btw I didnt know that was a bad thing)

No...So all you have is excuses for your behavior that wouldnt change no matter what anyone else did....or maybe you're the type to change you mind based on what other people do? IDK

 

[Pete7469]

We went to Wal Mart the other night and there were just two lines open for cashiers and dozens of people wanting to check out.

We ended up having to use those God forsaken stupid fucking "self checkout" kiosks.

We may as well get used to that I guess, because no child left behind can barely work the damned cash registers as it is and I doubt these companies are going to pay more to these incompetent boobs.

I goto home depot sevrral times per week and I try to always use the kiosks. It's just so much faster.
Our Walmart on the other hand removed them.

I can't stand the ones at WalMart.

They're nothing but a problem, but when the lines for a human cashier take twice as long I have to suck it up and tolerate them.

 

[Pete7469]

Henry Ford single handily put an end to the blacksmithing trade. Shame on him!

There are still blacksmiths who create wroght iron decorations, so it's a craft that has not "ended".

Ford's mass production created an incredible demand for steel, which further employed millions.

So it's no suprise to see a bed wetter condemn him.

 

[reconmark]

Rottweiler;

It's usually a sign of mental illness when one constantly contradicts themselves.

You state that liberals are putting an "entire nation" out of work...where does your article state this fact?

Pssst....the part where it says they installed 7,000 machines to take your order (seriously man - you should really read the article before commenting)

You really seem to be perpetually stuck on stupid, let's help with your inability to even comprehend the article you cite.

They have NOT installed jackcrap, idiot.

where the fast food chain is drafting 7,000 touch-screen kiosks to handle cashiering duties.

Duh!!!...do you have any idea what "drafting" means in the context of this article??...nope, thought not!!

You state that liberals are putting an "entire nation" out of work...while posting the hiring of 62,000 American workers.

Pssst....the part where it says they installed 7,000 machines to take your order (seriously man - you should really read the article before commenting). Plus, the educated (I know, that immediately eliminates you) knows that they just announced over 800,000 people just gave up and left the workforce in April because there are no jobs thanks to Dumbocrats who punish effort and success and reward quitting and failure.

Again, stuck in that stupid rut I see.
An "entire nation" out of work means NO ONE HAS A JOB!!!!!!...where is this nation that has only 7000 citizens??...post a link or just shut up.

"800,000 gave up and left the workforce"..exactly where is that listed in the article you cite???..oh yeah...nowhere. That's just something you added to move the goalposts because your post is a flop and you are trying to make it seem like an intelligent person started this post...LOL.

Now you really come off stupid when you try this kind of dishonestly (not surprising for you) You rant that 7,000 machines were installed and 800,000 people left the workforce and that they were somehow connected.

7000 machines are slated to be installed in EUROPE, 800,000 left jobs in AMERICA, two separate nations. What a nincompoop!!!..one has nothing to do with the other.

You state that, "liberals are putting the entire nation out of work so as to ensure a growing voter base of dependents on the government plantation."

Europe has a Democrat government plantation...please post the link?

LMAO! You don't know that? You think Europe is a bastian of free-market capitalism and freedom?!? You truly are a special kind of stupid, aren't you?

[/QUOTE]

Again, you failed to post ANY link where the liberals of Europe are commonly supposed to reside on some government plantation...post the link that proves your statement, otherwise it's logical to deduce that some posters are serial liars.

 

[Vandalshandle]

It's to be expected. People just priced themselves out of the market. American liberals will have to stop glorifying European style wages and benefits.

Sure, what right do Americans have wanting affordable health care, decent wages, two or three weeks vacation a year.

Mindless sniveling self absorded bed wetting parasites like you disgust me as much as the worst sort of criminals.

In fact like it says below, you must be incredibly stupid to have such vacuous bullshit in the space between your ears, or you're criminally insane and should be strung up like Rudolf Höss.

How you can even entertain the thought that you deserve any of those things merely because you're stealing the oxygen hard working plants produce. You owe the forests an apology.

It's astounding that it doesn't even occur to you that you should have to earn those things through your own efforts.

Pete, I make it kind of a game to guess the age bracket that people are in, based on the language that they use in their posts. In reading yours, I'm guessing, maybe 16 to 24 year old. Am I close?

 

[bedowin62]

it's ok if libs put people out of work; they have trillions of other people's money to "help' the poor people they're failed policies are CREATING!

and when their done they'll pat themselves on the back and call the RECORD WELFARE AND FOOD STAMPS "FORWARD PROGRESS"!1

snicker

 

[jillian]

If it weren't for the greed of liberal unions, these people would still be employed. Instead, they will now go from low-paying (but good jobs - complete with exceptional benefits) to no jobs with no benefits.

McDonald's Hires 7,000 Touch-Screen Cashiers
(Machines don't go on strike)

Would you like some microchips with that burger? McDonald's Europe strikes another blow against human interaction by installing 7,000 touch-screen computers to take your order and money.

McDonalds recently went on a hiring binge in the U.S., adding 62,000 employees to its roster. The hiring picture doesn't look quite so rosy for Europe, where the fast food chain is drafting 7,000 touch-screen kiosks to handle cashiering duties.

McDonald's hires 7,000 touch-screen cashiers

how are "liberal" policies hurting workers? and how is it "greedy" to think people should be able to pay their reasonable living expenses if they work full time? given macdonald's profits, and the extraordinary salaries paid to its top management, i'd say the problem is more corporatist greed.

[MENTION=3135]jillian[/MENTION] - I have asked a 1,000 liberals this question and none of them will answer. Will you please tell me what constitutes "reasonable" and who got to make that decision for all of society?

I have never met a liberal that didn't think "reasonable" meant HD plasma tv, iPad, BlackBerry, brand new automobiles every 3 years, and at least two extravagant vacations per year.

The fact is, a minimum wage worker working full time can more than "pay their reasonable living expenses" - but since liberals are greedy and entitled, they waste their money on frivolous luxuries and then expect society to pick up the bill on their necessities (healthcare, housing, food, etc.).

but I understand the right hates working people

Then why is it that the right creates jobs so that we have working people while the left destroys jobs so that everyone is beholden to the government plantation?

reasonable is payment of a modest rent, food on your plate, modest clothing on your body. utilities, basic medical care and an education at a public institution.

I think that's reasonable [MENTION=30955]Rottweiler[/MENTION].

The idea that minimum wage workers can afford basic living expenses, much less "more than pay" their living expenses is a fantasy.... or we wouldn't be subsidizing the Walton family (which has four of the ten richest people in the country) by giving their workers food stamps.

 

[Fishlore]

... As an example the high tech & manufacturing jobs this will create will grow and the benefits of that far outweigh any minimum wage jobs it took away. ..

It is a cherished myth of the uninformed that technical innovation always creates more and better jobs than it displaces. The oft-quoted example is the automobile industry, which put buggy-whip makers out of work but created millions of manufacturing jobs.

The economics of technology displacement have been studied for a century. There is no hard and fast rule. Sometimes, as in the case of the automobile, things work out in a beaudacious manner and the new technology does lead to more and better jobs. But sometimes -- and the computer seems to be one of those times -- things don't work out so happily. Then the technology displaces workers without creating compensatory jobs elsewhere, wages decline and unemployment rises. The spinning jenny is one such example.

Those who sing the praises of Henry Ford and the prosperity that followed putting harness makers and blacksmiths out of business would do well to reflect on a key economic factor in the current technology revolution: the jobs created in manufacturing the products created by the new technology were, thanks to "free trade" not created in the USA. That is significant. Henry Ford didn't make his Model T in China.

 

[KNB]

Marxist/Socialist/Kenyan/Communist billionaires make everyone else give up their wealth to the wealthy Socialist/Martian/Communist billionaires?

Yeah, maybe it's the weed or because you're a Conservative, but I can't understand what point you're trying to make.

Rich people run the world, not hippie liberals. Billionaires aren't hippie Communist liberals. They're "neo-liberal". Look up the term. Poor people aren't the problem. Rich people are the problem. You say it's "class warfare" to fight back. It's already a class war and the rich are winning. You are on their side for some reason, like they're ever going to show you any favors. They're not. There's a 99% chance that you're not in their special club and you never will be.

No, I am not in their special club, and I am not in your special club of liberal/socialist know nothings. But, I defend your right to your club, and I defend the right of the millionaires and billionaires to their club.

If you wish to fight against the millionaire/billionaire club, it would be a damned good idea to quit playing into their fight plan. Instead of continually pissing into the wind, you might consider either turning the boat, or moving to the other side.

The super rich will always win a class war, especially when they have dumbass opponents that can be easily convinced to limit their fights to the middle class. You don't hit any of the super rich with any of your volleys, but you are tearing up the upper middle class, and most of you are too damn dumb to realize that you are fighting the wrong people.

Even if you redirect your aim, you will still lose. If you start to hit the super rich, they will simply move somewhere else, and continue to laugh at your efforts.

You have no idea what's going to happen for the working class once this is reality again:

This replaced foreign imports in the 1940s. This will replace foreign imports again. The super rich control our energy supply, our means of production. This will switch the source of our energy from fossil fuels to biomass and decentralize production of essential raw materials, redistributing the world's colossal amounts of wealth from the super-rich back to the working class. This isn't "socialism". We did this during the 1940s, and for every other decade before that all the way back to the 1620s, and we were never a "socialist" country. This is free-market Capitalism, to support our troops, provide jobs, and defend liberty and democracy for future generations, just like we did before.

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32725.pdf

 

[P@triot]

I have never met a liberal that didn't think "reasonable" meant HD plasma tv, iPad, BlackBerry, brand new automobiles every 3 years, and at least two extravagant vacations per year.

Bullshit. Really. Bullshit.

I don't have any of the above.

The issue wasn't whether liberals have them - the issue is that liberals believe they should have all of this and more if they work any job.

 

[P@triot]

"800,000 gave up and left the workforce"..exactly where is that listed in the article you cite???..oh yeah...nowhere. That's just something you added to move the goalposts because your post is a flop and you are trying to make it seem like an intelligent person started this post...LOL.

Like I said, you truly are a special kind of stupid [MENTION=49013]reconmark[/MENTION]....

Jobs Report: Unemployment Down, But 800,000 Leave Workforce

800,000 people leave workforce in April - Campaign for Liberty

Big Downside to April Jobs Report | Fox Business

April Unemployment Rate Plunges as 800,000 Leave the Workforce

The PJ Tatler » Unemployment Rate Down, But Workforce Plummets by 806,000

800,000 Leave Workforce ? The Patriot Post

Workforce Plummets by 800,000 as White House Touts Unemployment Drop

May 2, 2014 Jobs Report: Unemployment Down, But 800,000 Leave Workforce - NooZilla.com

(Seriously kid, don't be afraid to pick up a newspaper every month or so... )

 

[P@triot]

how are "liberal" policies hurting workers? and how is it "greedy" to think people should be able to pay their reasonable living expenses if they work full time? given macdonald's profits, and the extraordinary salaries paid to its top management, i'd say the problem is more corporatist greed.

[MENTION=3135]jillian[/MENTION] - I have asked a 1,000 liberals this question and none of them will answer. Will you please tell me what constitutes "reasonable" and who got to make that decision for all of society?

I have never met a liberal that didn't think "reasonable" meant HD plasma tv, iPad, BlackBerry, brand new automobiles every 3 years, and at least two extravagant vacations per year.

The fact is, a minimum wage worker working full time can more than "pay their reasonable living expenses" - but since liberals are greedy and entitled, they waste their money on frivolous luxuries and then expect society to pick up the bill on their necessities (healthcare, housing, food, etc.).

but I understand the right hates working people

Then why is it that the right creates jobs so that we have working people while the left destroys jobs so that everyone is beholden to the government plantation?

reasonable is payment of a modest rent, food on your plate, modest clothing on your body. utilities, basic medical care and an education at a public institution.

I think that's reasonable [MENTION=30955]Rottweiler[/MENTION].

The idea that minimum wage workers can afford basic living expenses, much less "more than pay" their living expenses is a fantasy.... or we wouldn't be subsidizing the Walton family (which has four of the ten richest people in the country) by giving their workers food stamps.

Sure we would - because the Dumbocrats keep raising the bar for what constitutes "need" to get as many people as possible on the government plantation.

Full time work is 2080 hours per year. Minimum wage varies from state to state but you're looking at an average of roughly $7.50 per hour.

2080 x 7.50 = $15,600

Furthermore, that $15,600 per year from McDonald's comes with phenomenal benefits (free or reduced food, healthcare, vision, dental, prescription drug coverage, 401k, paid vacations, and tuition assistance).

So, uh, what was that you were saying again about "reasonable" living expenses?

And by the way, do you have any idea how absurd liberals sound when they bark about McDonald's "executives"?!? You people don't even realize that their corporate office do not own and operate the restaurants. Those are franchised to small business owners who are trying to turn a profit selling $0.99 hamburgers while being ferociously attacked by liberals with taxes, regulations, and calls for $25 minimum wages and strikes.

But hey, keep attacking mom's and dad's of America who are desperately trying to keep their restaurants running because you believe they are run by McDonald's executives who make $12 million per year...