more jobs will be lost thanks to GOP

[netrox]

Voters got what they asked for:

"Republicans who have taken over state capitols across the country are promising to respond to crippling budget deficits with an array of cuts, among them proposals to reduce public workers’ benefits in Wisconsin, scale back social services in Maine and sell off state liquor stores in Pennsylvania, endangering the jobs of thousands of state workers."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/us/politics/08govs.html?_r=1

 

[Foxrac]

Well, I don't believe in state monopoly over alcohol, especially AL and PA have one so I'm favor to rid of them by privatizing the state owned alcohol stores.

 

[jillio]

Voters got what they asked for:

"Republicans who have taken over state capitols across the country are promising to respond to crippling budget deficits with an array of cuts, among them proposals to reduce public workers’ benefits in Wisconsin, scale back social services in Maine and sell off state liquor stores in Pennsylvania, endangering the jobs of thousands of state workers."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/us/politics/08govs.html?_r=1

There you go. People see "cuts and fix the deficit" and say "Yay! The Repubs will do it!" But they don't look far enough into it to see that they will be sacrificing jobs. Look below the surface.

 

[TXgolfer]

Selling state run Liquor stores will INCREASE private sector jobs while it will DECREASE total government jobs. Yet it will also INCREASE higher level government jobs (permit office, enforcement)...... It's a good thing.

 

[Foxrac]

Selling state run Liquor stores will INCREASE private sector jobs while it will DECREASE total government jobs. Yet it will also INCREASE higher level government jobs (permit office, enforcement)...... It's a good thing.

Yup, I agree.

 

[jillio]

Selling state run Liquor stores will INCREASE private sector jobs while it will DECREASE total government jobs. Yet it will also INCREASE higher level government jobs (permit office, enforcement)...... It's a good thing.

You can claim it...but can you explain exactly how it will occur? By what process?

And even with your assertions...jobs are still lost. And what jobs are lost? The lower level jobs which will have a greater negative impact on people's ability to subsist. What happens then? People turn to government sponsored programs to meet their basis needs. More money has to be thrown into those programs. The deficit increases. That is hardly a good thing.

 

[Beowulf]

Selling state run Liquor stores will INCREASE private sector jobs while it will DECREASE total government jobs. Yet it will also INCREASE higher level government jobs (permit office, enforcement)...... It's a good thing.

LOL! Think it through...By your statements, far more government jobs are created than with the state-run liquor store.
Wasn't fewer government workers on the platform of the Repubs?

 

[jillio]

LOL! Think it through...By your statements, far more government jobs are created than with the state-run liquor store.

Thank you. Think it through to the end.

 

[jillio]

Yup, I agree.

That doesn't surprise me.

 

[Foxrac]

I can't wait to see Alabama to end of monopoly on liquor and boom of private liquor stores like in FL, GA and TN.

 

[Foxrac]

That doesn't surprise me.

How doesn't surprise you? Do you support government to monopoly on liquor sales?

 

[TXgolfer]

LOL! Think it through...By your statements, far more government jobs are created than with the state-run liquor store.
Wasn't fewer government workers on the platform of the Repubs?

Government stock boy, clerks, delivery guy gone (transferred to private sector) It's not like liquor stores will disappear.

Government adds Permit office help and enforcement. But not at a rate of 5 or 6 a store.

So government workforce IS reduced. Private sector jobs ARE created

Oh....and the new store owners....they pay taxes now, government owners don't