My IL 6th District Congressman,
Peter Roskam, likes to tout endless tax cuts for the billionaires and
mega millionaires based on the pitch they refrain from creating millions
of desperately needed new jobs due to those pesky, onerous taxes. By
endlessly referring to them as "creators", Roskam and his fellow GOP
leadership, frame them with the God like term "Creator" to justify
lavishing them with endless largess paid for by firing hundreds of
thousands of public sector workers, and discouraging any government
spending to rebuild America's crumbling infrastructure. Congressman Roskam would do well to study one of the most famous of
those mega millionaire entrepreneurs, Henry Ford, who knew instinctively
that he didn't create a single job.
In January, 1914, Ford's
revolutionary mass production techniques caused his car capacity to far
outstrip consumer demand. What to do? Ford turned to the real job
creators, working folk, and raised his own workers' pay to an
astonishing $5.00 a day while shortening their work day by one hour.
Ford's concept percolated through the entire manufacturing sector,
resulting in demand that now outstripped capacity. This caused the
hiring of millions of new workers to satisfy those job creators. The
emergence of the famed American middle class, now under attack by Roskam
and fellow austerity hawks in the GOP House leadership, can arguably be
traced to Ford's wisdom. The real job creators didn't rest on the seventh day. They went for a drive.
Walt Zlotow,
Precinct coordinator in Milton Township and blogger at Heartland Progressive
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