Fun with slave labor

So, this is a cool site.

And, of course, by cool I mean it makes a mockery of the democratic process.  The site is called YouCut, and it's a site where the public can suggest things to cut from the budget.  Essentially, it's the institutionalization of the GOP's policy of indiscriminate obstructionism.  Hooray!

Let me guess.  50% of the solutions involve removing the "black man" from the white house.  The other 50% probably involve...well...this.

In my browsing and fuming at the site, I looked at some of the Republican stances on the issues.  By stances, of course, I mean weird twisting of the facts and bizarre justification of putting all the blame on workers and all the praise on employers.

Honestly, some of their stances make sense.  Like this one:
"Federal unemployment insurance recipients who are most likely to exhaust benefits should be expected to engage in education, training, or enhanced job search as a condition of eligibility. This proposal would expand on the current successful Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment program operated by some States."

Sure, yes, they should show at least some evidence that they're making an effort.  That makes sense.  Of course, "enhanced job search" is a kind of troubling word, but barring that, it's a reasonable idea.

But then there's this:

"The government should require states to adopt a program like "Georgia Works" as a condition of accessing Unemployment Insurance Modernization funds. Under this successful program unemployment insurance recipients are placed in real part time jobs with real employers, with the employer deciding whether to hire them at the end of a 6-week trial period. Their pay during the period is their unemployment benefit, along with a State-provided stipend for job-related transportation and child care expenses. This has resulted in faster returns to work, less unemployment payments, and thus lower State unemployment taxes."

So, essentially, the Repubs think that providing a free supply of expendable employees to companies, more jobs will be created.  Now that's GOP thinkin'.

It's at best allowing companies to do to white people what they already do to Mexicans, at worst it's straight slave labor.  This article asks who benefits more.  Let's examine that.

Benefits to the employer: Free labor, ability to put the employee to work doing whatever they hell they feel like, no need to pay benefits, no need to worry about pesky unions and the ability to kick the employee out after six-weeks.

Benefits to the employee: They work at whatever they get placed in and desperately try to meet that 50% chance they might actually be offered a real position at a company they may not want to work for.

The question is not who benefits more.  The question is why we allow people to propose these ideas without being deported for treason.