Incredible legerdemain has been coming out of the Barack Obama
policy shops. Taking the cake is the administration’s response to the
Congressional Budget Office report showing that Obamacare will
reducejobs for lower-earners. Here’s the official spin: unfortunates (as
we used to call them), bolstered by health insurance provided by the
government, will now be able to enjoy some leisure instead of sticking
to the drudgery of menial work.
Under the umbrella of Obamacare, the poorare free to…find themselves.
We might think these justifications of the health-care monstrosity peculiar, but they have a pedigree. The left has been trading on these ideas ever since the industrial revolution got going in the first half of the 19th century.
The principal figure, as always, was Karl Marx. Marx (writing in the 1840s) noticed that what economists would call the “capital-labor ratio” was increasing mightily as the industrial revolution made progress. With every passing year, one unit of output came care more and more of machines than human labor.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2014/02/18/the-left-has-been-wishing-non-work-on-the-poor-for-200-years/
Under the umbrella of Obamacare, the poorare free to…find themselves.
We might think these justifications of the health-care monstrosity peculiar, but they have a pedigree. The left has been trading on these ideas ever since the industrial revolution got going in the first half of the 19th century.
The principal figure, as always, was Karl Marx. Marx (writing in the 1840s) noticed that what economists would call the “capital-labor ratio” was increasing mightily as the industrial revolution made progress. With every passing year, one unit of output came care more and more of machines than human labor.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2014/02/18/the-left-has-been-wishing-non-work-on-the-poor-for-200-years/
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