Americans Hate Their Jobs

Here's the "story":

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100105/D9D1J3F02.html

You can read the story, but this chick at AP has it all wrong. The study itself is fundamentally flawed, since it focuses on money and cost of health care as primary factors. The article even cites concern for the growing cost of health care as a top 3 concern, but totally fails to mention that taxes account for by far the greatest percentage of money taken out of our pockets, but then we’re all supposed to be happy little taxpayers!

I believe I was actually part of this study or one like it – I’m a member of Gallup and remember taking at least one job satisfaction survey in the last six months, so I can tell you for a fact that the questions only scratch the surface and do not probe to any depth the true causes of job dissatisfaction in this country.

While I admit I’d like to be paid more, I would have a difficult time putting a price tag on my contributions at work, so how much “more” is enough?. Pay is all relative, but the Left’s continued class warfare campaign has taught us that people who make more than us don’t deserve it and probably do less work. That argument gives zero credit for experience, personal motivation, professional acumen, or behavior, but again, none of those qualities elicits an emotional reaction, so liberals are incapable of comprehending why they are valuable. I have no problem with the fact that my boss, who is younger than me, makes more money than I do. He clearly has worked hard for his position and has a great deal of expertise, motivation, and leadership qualities that absolutely should be rewarded. The fact that I’m older than him is irrelevant. Nevertheless, today’s entitlement mentality tells us we are all worth more than we’re currently being paid, regardless of our relative reimbursement. What is absolutely true is that people who are well-paid are over-taxed relative to the amount of services they consume compared to those who earn significantly less money. In this way government’s intrusion into our economy creates a negative incentive to work hard and be more productive. Politicians pit one group against the other, creating stress and tension in the workplace where those who earn less envy those who earn more, and government taxes the higher-achievers, creating animosity among those who succeed toward those who are not motivated to achieve beyond their lesser circumstance.

Envy and animosity are the cause of the problem of pay, and it is clearly an artificial cause created by Democrats for the purpose of gaining power and controlling people’s lives. For the last 2 years the media has campaigned recklessly on the idea that health insurance is crippling American workers, when the average person pays less than $76 a month for health insurance, while they pay as much as 33% or more of their gross income in taxes!

Another finding from this study is that young people are the most dissatisfied, primarily for being underpaid and not challenged by the work. Well it’s a good thing that Bama and the Democrats just spent a Trillion dollars creating thousands of low paying construction jobs! Twenty-something’s who are grumpy about their jobs have only themselves to blame for voting in Democrats who don’t trust free markets to create higher-paying, stimulating jobs. Democrats cater to unions, many of which trowel the manufacturing sector for what few jobs are still out there, despite the reality of global competition. Union jobs are the least satisfying, as envy is integral to the union “Us vs Them” mentality. How can anyone be happy working under such conditions? Again, liberals maintain this environment in order to control votes.

Liberalism is ultimately to blame. Class warfare, three generations of increasingly entitlement-minded young people, and the pervasive scope of government into every aspect of our lives has replaced the moral and ethical compunction to work in order to provide for one’s family and fulfill one’s part in the implied contract with the community. Government has stepped in and removed our need to create for ourselves a sense of self-worth and self respect. We must all be made to be equal so that the playing field is level for all. No one can be allowed to achieve to great heights on his own merit, for surely that was accomplished at the expense of others. Given these obnoxious attitudes toward working and work, it’s more important than ever for business owners to prevail against the surge of government intervention into our lives. We must fight to reclaim free markets, against over-regulation, and for the rights of small business owners and entrepreneurs to create new opportunities in their local community. Only by reclaiming power at home can we create better lives for ourselves and our neighbors.

Isn’t it a little ironic that Obama, the first black man to occupy the office of President, has set in motion a plan to create a low-skilled, low-paid labor force that will then continue to rely on the government teat for their next meal and for health care. Lincoln he is not.