James Cook Jobs Quotations

If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'

At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.