Social Darwinism, Great Recession, and rightists

I don't know whether this company in question is owned by a tea partier or a more generic right winger, but ...

The job, posted on Indeed.com, seemed promising - an opening in Texas for a quality engineer with experience in dimensional gauging and benchtop test equipment, offering up to $62,000 a year.

But the advertisement included a caveat: "Client will not consider/review anyone not currently employed regardless of the reason."

A job where the company won't even consider the application of a currently unemployed person? Social Darwinism is raising its ugly rightist head.

There's no other word for some of the employment issues the Great Recession has raised, other than Social Darwinism.

And, I wouldn't want to work at a company like this anyway.

More on this Social Darwinism:

"Sometimes the unemployed are unemployed for a reason, and the reason is they are lousy," said Ken Dubin, president of the Dubin Group, a Bala Cynwyd recruiting agency that specializes in accounting and finance.

No, Ken, it's called age discrimination, often.f

But, refusing to hire the unemployed is itself not a discriminatory offense under EEOC purview.