Recently, the liberal Center For American Progress Action Fund’s blog, Think Progress, came out with a post titled “Fewer And Fewer Young Adults Can Find Full-Time Jobs.” Citing fresh Gallup data that indicate “only 43.6 percent of workers aged 18-29 had full-time jobs in June,” Think Progress acknowledged that Americans are having a hard time “in the sluggish economy.” To drive home their point, they even featured a picture of several well-dressed young people standing in front of the US capitol with “I NEED A JOB.” stamped on their briefcases.
Could it be that the liberal brain trust in Washington is finally catching on? Are they finally recognizing what has become an all-too-depressing reality for normal Americans under the Obama Administration’s failed policies? (You know, the same broken policies Think Progress and their fellow left-wing extremists have been shamelessly shilling for years?)
Sadly, this is not the case… For all their concern over the ability of Americans—young and otherwise—to “find full-time jobs,” it seems headlines like these have managed to escape their attention: “Health-Care Law Spurs a Shift to Part-Time Workers”. To state the obvious, the “health care law” in question here is Obamacare, and Think Progress is among the law’s most committed cheerleaders.
If you find this blatant disconnect with reality hard to believe, there’s more… How, pray tell, should we address this dour economic outlook? Sadly, Think Progress’ thinking only progressed as far as… “eliminating student debt” and “minimum wage increases.” Nowhere in their vacuous post do they even mention ways to actually help young people find work.
It must be disheartening for the “I NEED A JOB” young people in the photo to see that—when it comes to addressing chronic unemployment—all the professional Left has to offer them are platitudes which have nothing to do with getting people back to work.
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