I know what you’re thinking: Why didn’t I think of that? Well, because you’re not Paul Hsieh and you don’t have those great pain meds you get when you yank your hip out of whack so badly that you require surgery. So, here are some details of his job creation scheme:
1) Impose a “job mandate� requiring all companies with greater than 50 employees to add 10% new employees to their payrolls. So if a company currently has 50 employees, they would need to hire 5 new workers. If a company has 100 employees, they must hire 10 new workers, etc.
2) If a company failed to hire enough workers, they would have to pay a penalty to the government. That pool of money would be used to pay for government-subsidized jobs and to fund a government-run jobs “exchange� to match up prospective employers and unemployed workers.
3) Of course, the government would have to closely specify what sorts of salaries, benefits, and job responsibilities must be included in any of these new government-created jobs, both within and outside the exchanges. We can’t have those “millionaire and billionaire� employers exploiting their new employees.
I paused a moment before posting this because it occurred to me that some progressivees out there might actually think this is a good idea. So, please read the following disclaimer: THIS IS A GAG! Dr. Hsieh is making a point with something known as “satire.”
If you’re a progressive and have never heard of satire, or think that the word means “to say something hateful about conservatives or George Bush,” you can find the actual definition in something called a “dictionary.” Â Meanwhile, go read the rest of the piece here.
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