The Red Wave Of High-Employment
Employment is a word with very different meanings depending on who you’re asking. To a rural living dad, it is prudent if you want to call yourself a man. To a California lifestyle hipi with their pronouns in their Twitter handle, it’s a choice. But to any economist or better yet someone with a basic understanding of the world it’s a necessity.
In today’s rapidly “advancing” time, the American Dream seems to be taken in a different direction. It’s no longer the freedom to work whatever job you want. Rather it’s the freedom to not work at all. This is no big deal. If the basic rules of survival are right then in due time, they will need money to buy food, pay for electricity, and other fiscal commodities. Wrong. Because thanks to your taxes the government is going to help keep them in their late twenties retirement. This however is the information we all already know. What you may not know is why people not working directly affects you.
What’s The Big Deal
Who cares if some kids are parting all day. It doesn’t mean anything for you, right? No, it definitely does. You paying for them to stay home isn’t the only way their early retirement affects you.
It seems like every single product we want to buy is for some reason not available. Usually, we say it’s a _______ shortage (fill in the blank with whatever you can’t find). Although, this seems inaccurate to me since we can’t find anything these days. Currently, it’s an everything shortage. This is due to many things. Manufacturers still shut down because of COVID and also because of Pete Buttigieg’s wonderful job as secretary of transportation. But a huge reason, and the focus of today, is people are not working. Obviously, if there are no workers we are going to have a hard time getting the product we want.
So there’s no employee to make your product. That stinks right? But it’s not a huge deal. Unless of course, we see its downstream effects. If there’s no product then your not spending money. If you’re not spending your money, then the economy crashes. Economy crashes than companies have to lay people off, which causes more economic downturn. On top of that, the reason your product was never made was because the employee was paid by the government to stay home. To keep this up the government needs to print more money. That causes massive inflation. And the next thing you know were all in Bejing, shoveling coal for the Chinese government. This may be over the top, but you understand the point I’m getting at. Employment is necessary as it fuels the economy which powers American freedom.
Now, what does this supposed red wave mean? Well now that you agree that people not working is bad for all of us, who can we blame. Undoubtedly it’s the democrats. My proof is the red wave. And in this case, the red wave refers to the massive number of republican states on the top of the list of high employment and the blue states all at the bottom. I’ll be more specific. In the top ten highest employed states, 9 of them are red. These include:
Iowa
Montana
Idaho
New Hampshire
Nebraska
Vermont
Utah
South Dakota
Alabama
The ten states with the lowest employment on the other hand include:
Nevada
Connecticut
New Jersey
Louisiana
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Hawaii
New Mexico
California
New York
If you couldn’t tell every single one of those states voted blue. This study was gathered during a crucial time in mid-2021 when states began to divide on whether or not they should start encouraging people to work again, and the numbers still remain very similar today. The overwhelming amount of republican controlled states having low employment is the red wave I’m referring to and I believe it is very indicative of the consequences of who we vote for. Talking to you California!
