In Praise of Andy Puzder and Crummy Jobs, by Kurt Schlichter

Remember your crummy first job? Much as you probably hated it, you learned about showing up on time, following directions, responsibility, and learning by doing. Donald Trump has appointed a Labor Secretary, Andy Puzder, whose company, CKE Restaurants (Carl’s, Jr., and Hardees) has lots of crummy first jobs, and that, according to Kurt Schlicter, is a good thing. From Schlicter on a guest post at theburningplatform.com:

Trump’s selection of Andy Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (which owns Carl’s, Jr., and Hardee’s), is great news to those of us who think that, to the extent it should exist at all (which is zero), the Department of Labor should be concerned with getting more people laboring. Instead, under Obama, it seems focused on ensuring that as few people as possible actually work. The liberals’ whinefest about Puzder – as opposed to the liberals’ whinefest about every other Trump appointee – is based on the fact that Puzder’s career has been centered on the kind of jobs that provide the foundation for careers: entry-level, minimum wage gigs that teach you the basics of how to be employed. Puzder endangers the liberal’s scheme to turn those jobs into permanent gigs for people who don’t want to improve their skills and subsidize them with mandated artificially high wages, confident that these serfs will forever vote Democrat.

It’s particularly relevant to me because my first job was at the Carl’s, Jr., store in Foster City, California, in 1981 making $3.10 an hour. See, I had a 1973 Mustang with a 302 cubic inch engine that guzzled 79? per gallon gas while pumping out a wheezy 150 horsepower, and I had to fill it up as well as cart my annoying brother around since my mom was off prosecuting scumbags. Hideously monstrous due to their mid-Pennsylvania upbringing, they refused to give me free money. No worky, no drivey.

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