Liberal Utopia is Only a Failure Away

Utopia is only a failure away.  Those who are harmed will get over it, because in the end, it all equals out.  That’s libtardism in a nutshell.  Unfortunately, we are witnessing those policies being played before our very eyes with the Democratic Party’s income inequality meme. 

Recently, a Seattle CEO of a credit card processing company decided to put into practice what liberals have been carping on for decades: implementing an income equality workplace.  Many conservatives predicted this was a doomed experiment.  The surprise was it only took three months for that prediction to become reality.  Skilled and dedicated employees were making as much as entry level workers causing dissention and resentment.  The survival of Gravity Payments is in question.

The living wage experiment is also proving to be a failure.  This time it’s not from some small regional company from the left coast, but from a megastore headquartered in America’s heartland.  Wal-Mart has bought into this utopian concept of higher wages for entry level employees equals a happy work environment.  That would probably be the case if they raised the wages of everyone else, but income equality doesn’t work that way.  Here is an excerpt from Bloomberg News:

 When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. chief Doug McMillon announced plans to boost store workers’ minimum wage earlier this year, he said the move was intended to improve morale and retain employees.

Yet for some of the hundreds of thousands of workers getting no raise, the policy is having the opposite effect.

In interviews and in hundreds of comments on Facebook, Wal-Mart employees are calling the move unfair to senior workers who got no increase and now make the same or close to what newer, less experienced colleagues earn. New workers started making a minimum of $9 an hour in April and will get at least $10 an hour in February.

“It is pitting people against each other,” said Charmaine Givens-Thomas, a 10-year Wal-Mart veteran. “It hurts morale when people feel like they aren’t being appreciated. I hear people every day talking about looking for other jobs and wanting to remove themselves from Wal-Mart and a job that will make them feel like that.”

Liberal utopianism doesn’t care whether or not we appreciate their outcomes; it’s the sentiment that counts.  Equality, fraternity and liberty to fleece other people’s wallets and ambitions are part of the Democratic Party’s transformation of America.  It worked so well for France during the Reign of Terror, why shouldn’t it work here?

Source:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-06/an-unintended-consequence-of-wal-mart-pay-raise-unhappy-workers

http://costonscomplaint.blogspot.com/2014/05/minimum-wage-hike-is-pay-cut-for-middle.html

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/03/seattle-ceo-who-set-firm-minimum-wage-to-70g-rents-house-to-make-ends-meet/

A Healthcare Odyssey

I’ve enjoyed good health in my semi-advanced age.  However, I recognize that due to genetics and a predisposition to frequent bouts of irritability (not the bowel kind); I’m a prime candidate for high blood pressure.  Besides, my dentist and optometrist were somewhat concerned when they measured it.  Needless to say, I can take a hint.  I decided it was time to find a general practitioner.

Now you’d think this would be as simple as making a phone call.  Wrong.  One doctor’s office informed me they weren’t accepting patients, but told me to call back tomorrow morning.  I asked her, if they weren’t accepting new patients today, why would it change tomorrow?  She didn’t have an answer.

After cornering a receptive office, my next question was to find out how much a visit would cost.  Of course, no one could give me an answer.  I was finally able to finagle an approximate amount.  Now mind you, I never had a problem with a dentist or an optometrist.  They were somewhat upfront with their prices.  I’m beginning to learn that it isn’t so in this particular field.

The visit with my teenage doctor was what I expected.  Had I access to a prescription pad, I would have written it myself, and saved a couple of hundred bucks, but I digress.  Of course, he wants to run a bunch of test.  My question was ‘How much do they cost?’  He of course couldn’t answer.  To which I replied, ‘No one is doing a damn thing until I know what the cost are.’  He agreed.

I will spare you the fiasco that was my follow up visit.  I’m not accustomed to healthcare protocols and apparently these professionals aren’t accustomed to cash paying customers.  But what I will say is this must be the only business/industry where no one knows what a damn thing cost.

Can you imagine shopping at a Wal-Mart and finding out there are no prices on any product, and when you ask a sales clerk what the cost are, they inform you to go ahead and buy it.  We’ll send you a bill in the mail, and if you don’t pay within 30 days, we’ll sic a collection agency on you.

I ask, how long do think Wal-Mart would be in business with that particular model?

You ask did I get the cost of these test.  The answer is no.  But after speaking to an administrator, they agreed to provide the codes and a phone number to the lab that does their test.  So off I go on my healthcare quest.  Thank God, I have my blood pressure medicine.