{"id":72993,"date":"2012-04-04T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=72993"},"modified":"2012-04-04T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:29:38","slug":"dems-to-apple-hire-the-economically-disadvantaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=72993","title":{"rendered":"Dems to Apple: Hire the ‘Economically Disadvantaged’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

Some Democratic officials are demanding that Apple — in exchange for millions of dollars in tax breaks from Travis County — hire residents who are “economically disadvantaged.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Apple wanted to hire the ‘economically advantaged’, they’d do it in China, where they’re REALLY ‘economically disadvantaged’. (Oh, wait — they already do. Well, then.)<\/p>\n

Getting Apple to Austin, however, could hinge on the demand from some Travis County Democrats that Apple’s tax breaks be contingent on it hiring a certain percentage of economically disadvantaged residents. Local TV station YNN explained that Apple would have to “give preference to qualified applicants who are at or below the poverty line rather than those who may come across as the most attractive job candidates.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To do what? Clean the offices? Look after the grounds? Serve meals in the cafeteria?<\/p>\n

Democrat Sarah Eckhardt, a Travis County commissioner, complained to YNN that Apple will thus have to change its hiring practices. “They will-hire the low-hanging fruit, and the low-hanging fruit in our community don’t need the hiring preference.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See #2, below.<\/p>\n

Some Apple executives must be thinking about now that some of Austin’s Democrats are a little over the top — clueless about how a business operates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s Democrats, alright.<\/p>\n

To sum up … Lessons that Apple probably won’t learn:<\/p>\n

1. If you take the government’s money, you also get the government’s collar.<\/p>\n

2. Politicians don’t see you as a source of products and services, but as a provider of jobs, concerning which see #1.<\/p>\n

3. Democrats don’t want you to hire the most qualified person, but rather someone who will vote for them. See #2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read it. Some Democratic officials are demanding that Apple — in exchange for millions of dollars in tax breaks from Travis County — hire residents who are “economically disadvantaged.” If Apple wanted to hire the ‘economically advantaged’, they’d do it in China, where they’re REALLY ‘economically disadvantaged’. (Oh, wait — they already do. Well, then.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72995,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72993\/revisions\/72995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}