Enough Is Never Enough

In an Counter Punch blog article entitled Where $18 An Hour Is Too Much, the author Carl Ginsburg discusses what he calls a problem in the pay rate of the New York baking factory's workers. He states that apparently America cannot afford to pay these workers $18 an hour, which he says totals to $2,300 a month. Ginsburg goes on to discuss the fact that New York's homeless population is at an all time high at about 120,000 women, men, and children. He continues stating that, "Barack Obama believes in banks over jobs." He says that president Obama would have these workers believe that, "growth in the GDP will free up markets, loosen credit, and create good jobs...", but states that this is a "one-sided belief" and will not create jobs for many years to come. He finalizes talking about how on the COBRA health care plan, the government covers 65% of workers premiums for up to nine months but still leaves hundreds of dollars monthly for the workers to cover on their own to pay the insurance company. He states that it is for these reasons that so many Americans qualify for food stamps due to that fact that these workers will not find a living wage job for some time to come. From the beginning of the article, Ginsburg makes his seemingly very biased view point fairly difficult to understand. Though he covers several factors on the matter being discussed, his method of writing and order in which he discusses these topics are very scatter brained and difficult to keep up with. He does not give a very smooth flow between paragraphs which makes it fairly hard to understand what point he is trying to make, and about what matter his point is covering. He opens discussing that the baking factory workers pay was cut from $18 an hour to "only" $14 an hour. This is a very biased and one-sided mind set to be thinking on and does not allow much room for other ideas of solutions to what Ginsburg believes to be a serious problem. He definitely takes a strict New Yorker's view point approach to his writing and doesn't seem to have even considered the fact there may be several other options. Why couldn't these unemployed workers move out of state or even to another city if the living conditions are so difficult for them? New York seems to be far beyond over populated anyways, and it seems to me that this idea could possibly be a kill two birds with one stone solution. Ginsburg comes off even more biased when he states Barack Obama favors banks over jobs and calling Obama's belief in the GDP's growth a solution to job, credit, and market problems "a simplistic and one-sided proposition at best...". It seems to me that over all Ginsburg has not put much thought into what his is writing about other than his own personal opinions and doesn't seems to think that there can be any other view point outside of what he discusses.