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Never a chance they’ll review on what they have wrought

Progressives place a bunch of constraints of the lives of the working poor, then they expect to be hoisted triumphantly into office on the shoulders of people they have harmed. When a worker making $800 on 50 hours of work has to go home and tell her family she is now making $600 on 40 hours of work because new federal rules on overtime pay make the 50 hour arrangement uneconomical, she doesn’t need to understand the theoretical subtleties of economics to understand what’s happened. Bernstein and the president’s other supporters believe workers will be pleased about this constraint. They seem to think that someone making $15/hour for 50 hours of work will now have the same schedule, but with an extra $75 for the week. Or, alternatively, that they will be reduced to 40 hours and $600, and be happy about it, because they were only coerced into those extra hours by their employers. And, this has the added bonus of creating more jobs, to replace the lost hours.

Progressive always believe that when they “change the system”, nothing except THEIR change will change.  In other words, their changes will always be on a status quo.  We all, their social engineering experimental mice, know it not to be true – systems always change in the face of externalities imposed upon that system.  And while Progressives will always crow about the “good stuff” they either ignore their own decisions’ negative outcomes or simply shrug their shoulders and accept that in making their Utopian omelettes, some don’t make it into the pan.

In this, they are evil – thinking that they have the right to play with other peoples’ lives “for their own good”.

(H/T: Cafe Hayek)

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