Saturday, November 5, 2011

Wrong way to think about jobs

A story in the Orlando Sentinel today has all me riled up!

Nationwide, the defense industry could lose 1 million jobs, the study concluded.

Roosevelt's New Deal, fundamentally changed "the system" by creating jobs just for the purpose of solving unemployment and as a result our government, like China's, can not eliminate or fundamentally restructure without facing significant unrest and unemployment.

Our system requires war, cause without war lots of soldiers and military contractors sit around doing nothing, which leads to budget cuts, which leads to unemployed soldiers as well as lots of lost jobs in the support industry for the miliary (bullet factories, ration makers, fuel sellers ect ect. If unemployment is bad now, what is it going to look like with all the soldiers (many of whom are unfit mentally for regular work) added to the list people looking for work? Same thing with government liquor shop employees, social services workers, middle managers or traffic cops. Every unnecessary, or poorly skilled worker you eliminate from a government job you throw on top of the heap of current unemployed people.

The solution is to stop the greed and prevent individuals from amassing huge fortunes and excessive lifestyles. Heavily tax personal wealth and give every human being a check that pays for housing and food. At which point employment no longer is necessary for survival. The employed are the people who want to work, who want to better themselves. Firing bad employees will not longer be causing the government more problems through that person being unemployed. Companies will have greater power over who they employ as a job is no longer someones livelihood. And more jobs will be created through the entire population getting a paycheck and wanting to spend it.  

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Why are you riled up? This was coming, the country has no money.
It our fault and we need to cut back.
But why are you riled up? You're not involved.

Quotes

At a certain stage the realization strikes through that one must either live outside of society's bonds or die of absolute boredom. There is no future or freedom in the circumscribed life and the only other life is complete rejection of the rules. There is no longer room for the soldier of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I chose the nothing.

-James Bolivar DiGriz