I'm "Ready For Hillary" To Say It... - Granite Grok

I’m “Ready For Hillary” To Say It…

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Would Progressives risk tossing the entre feminazi project under the bus if they thought it would save their political prospects in 2014?

You betcha!

Low workforce participation, job lock, part-time nation, wage stagnation, serial decline in total income.  These are not bugs, my friends, they are features of a cure for what ails us.

First, the left tried to sell it as Funemployment.  Then it was an opportunity for people to explore new career options.  At various points in the jobless recovery–also deemed good by those employed and well-paid in Washington, the issue was simply ignored, skewed, spun, ignored some more, and advertised as good for the country and the economy.  Now we are being told that according to experts, reductions in income are actually just plain good for you.

“Interestingly, there’s evidence that short-term reductions in income are actually good for you,” …

But how could this be? Wouldn’t job loss also cause people to scale back on gym memberships and kale salads? Well, yes. And this is one of those counterintuitive trends that becomes more intuitive once you hear all the caveats.

These studies evaluate overall unemployment and GDP, not job loss at the individual level. That is to say, they only suggest that health improves as the economy overall slows down.

This comes to us from The Atlantic – “Do moms who work less have healthier babies.”

This is what we call laying the ‘intellectual’ argument in favor of stagnation.

Short-term, as in”short-term reductions,” for those playing along at home, is defined as either, “as long as Democrats are politically on the hook” or “until Republicans can be blamed.”  And you are expected to believe this.

Sure, nothing Obama and the Democrats promised was true.  Yes, they lied about jobs, guns, the economy, recovery summer, Benghazi, the IRS, spying, the stimulus, joblessness, keeping your plan, the future, recovery summer, health care, stagnation, foreign policy, keeping your doctor, recovery summer, the climate,  the war on women, keeping your hospital, the deficit, gas prices, recovery summer, but hey–it was all for your own good.  You need this down time.

We should expect this narrative to slide down the gullet of the liberal media to be regurgitated repeatedly until November 2014 even though it runs completely counter to decades of feminazi rhetoric.

It’s a low-impact economic work out.  Just a stretch between sets.  (And no, women choosing to rest from their careers  for their own good or that of their children [see also, who can’t find work] will not be factored into arguments about that so-called sexist wage gap.)

For my part, I’m “Ready for Hillary” to say that staying home and baking cookies would have been good for her, and that it will be good for you, modern American woman.

I know, I know.  At this point, what difference does it make?

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