Ignorance doesn't excuse idiocy

Governor of New York tells the unemployed to “go get jobs as an essential worker”.

Twenty-two million people are out of work, health care workers, including doctors and nurses, are idle; where does Cuomo think citizens of New York and the country find these jobs? A meatpacking plant, perhaps? Driving semis?

FWIW’s resident village idiot, the landscaper calling himself Master Hedge, joins Cuomo in his abysmal world of stupidity:

You want to go back to work, be my guest. May I suggest you take a job on one of the Covid-45 floors at Greenwich Hospital - yes floors! In fact, I am happy to drive you there myself.

It’s all well and good for a hedge trimmer to suggest applying for non-existent jobs — for some reason, mowing lawns and weeding flower beds is considered essential, so he can continue driving around town in his new Ford 250 (although where he’ll find the illegal immigrants to actually do that work is an open question; even legitimate farmers can’t secure them), but do he and media star Cuomo truly believe that the answer to a paralyzed, ruined economy is to set office workers, airline pilots, fishermen, physical therapists and musicians to work sweeping floors in hospitals? (Do the hospitals even need more janitors, and can they afford them if they do? Most hospitals, from what I read are suffering financially because all “elective” surgeries and exams — think hip replacements, mammograms, colonoscopies — have been cancelled, cutting off revenue while idling skilled health workers.)

Just last December Joe Biden, responding to charges that his global warming plans would throw hundreds of thousands of miners and oilfield workers on the unemployment rolls said they could “just learn how to code”. Besides being clueless, IT jobs are disappearing, along with all white-collar jobs, and salaries for those who are still employed are rapidly dropping.

None of which bothers those ignorant of microeconmics and how an economy works. We’ll see how they feel when fall comes and they discover that the farmers they depend on for food went bust this spring or held off planting and raising livestock, and grocery shelves are still empty. There’s no code for solving that one.