As the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, some low-wage employers are complaining that they are having difficulty filling their positions. This is being treated as some sort of crisis. When, on the other hand, there is a job shortage, that’s considered perfectly normal.
Help the Poor Bosses! There’s a Labor Shortage!
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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It appears that our august captains of capitalism have, uniformly, never took/passed a high school course in their own, glorious (capitalist) economics, i.e.: “supply, demand & price”?
I wonder sometimes if we would, nationally, benefit from National Service. Not in the military. In retail. I think every person in this country should be made to watch two years of their lives go sliding down the drain as they punch a register, wait tables, or what not. And I would investigate like an inquisitor every single case of someone claiming medical exemption.
“You say on your deferment application that you have mobility issues. But I see you made it to this appointment. Request denied. Penalty of an additional three months. See you tomorrow at Burger King for fry station training.”