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Fox & Friends Think Young Americans Should Aim Lower

Posted by Ellen -7842.60pc on July 12, 2012 · Flag

If you thought those patriotic folks at Fox News have high aspirations for America’s youth, think again. Today, Fox Business Network’s John Stossel told an approving Fox & Friends host that young people should be aiming lower in their job searches.

Guest host Peter Johnson introduced the segment by saying, “With the unemployment rate stalled at 8.2%, many young Americans are finding it impossible to land their first job. But as John Stossel found out, there are jobs out there.” He played a clip of Stossel interviewing business owners looking for the likes of cashiers and fast-food chefs and “asked,” “So is the youngest generation of Americans just aiming too high? Do they need a lesson in good, old-fashioned hard work?”

It wasn’t hard to guess the answer. Included in the segment were interviews with Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren discussing their low-level first jobs (at a Carvel stand, as dishwasher and coin processor, respectively). The message was clear: take an awful job and you, too, might be rich and famous one day. What they didn’t mention was that none of them seemed to have moved up the ladder of success via those jobs. Nor did they mention how much further a minimum wage went in the 60’s and 70’s, when those three probably had those jobs.

While they were at it, Johnson gave Stossel a chance to promote his ideas on abolishing the minimum wage. So, America, time to aim lower in the pay department, too.

 

Stossel Interviews FNC Primetime Hosts About First Jobs To Show Young People They Should Aim Lower

Fox Business Network host John Stossel appeared on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends on Thursday to dispel the myth that there are almost no low or no experience jobs available. He also interviewed Fox News Channel's primetime hosts about their first jobs to show young people that they might have expectations that are preventing them from taking these kinds of jobs.


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Warp Resident commented 2012-07-14 07:32:55 -0400 · Flag
Exactly, Jon! We’ve got to do whatever we can to help the job creators create jobs. If that means eliminating child labor laws, the minimum wage, welfare, non-profit health care (for the non-AARP crowd), environmental laws, consumer safety laws, and any other law, regulation or entitlement program that, in any way, might prevent the worthiest people on Earth (corporations are people, my friend!) from making a buck like the Teabag hat wearing Party wants, then so be it! If you are not a producer (i.e. – a corporation or rich person), you are a taker. Romney 2012!
mj - the same one commented 2012-07-13 17:41:09 -0400 · Flag
You tell ’em, Pete and Johnny.

Don’t these youngsters know, there’s ALWAYS work available as Mitt Romney’s car elevator operator {or Stossel’s pornstache trimmer/waxer.}

In an era when the 1% feel they should pay no taxes, indentured servitude will be a booming industry. So, aim low, young Americans.

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vermont dave commented 2012-07-12 20:31:38 -0400 · Flag
At some point when Stossel was trying to sound humble, did I hear him say, “with luck.”?

ps.
My first paying job was being a ‘gopher’ at a mom and pop photo shop. I learned how to create picture frames and cut mats and glass. I also learned how to develop and use and clean the machines that developed photos.
I think I was paid about $3.75/hr.
It was a great entry level job for a sixteen y/o in 1984.
Warp Resident commented 2012-07-12 19:46:54 -0400 · Flag
Minimum wage just puts companies at a disadvantage. If the government would just get out of the way of business, everyone would have a job! Companies wouldn’t have to outsource their IT to India or China, or hire indentured servants through the H-1B program. Companies wouldn’t have to move operations overseas to get access to an available workforce that is, quite literally, hungry to work for pennies on the American worker’s dollar. How low a wage is low enough to have full employment in the US? $5/hour? $3.00/hour? Who knows!? We’ll only find out when the Plutocrats win. Romney 2012!
NewsHounds posted about Fox & Friends Think Young Americans Should Aim Lower on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2012-07-12 14:01:58 -0400
While you're at it, America, time to lower your sights in the pay department, too.








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