Posted on 04/23/2018 12:14:09 PM PDT by Simon Green
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will unveil a plan for the federal government to guarantee a job paying $15 an hour and health-care benefits to every American worker “who wants or needs one,” embracing the kind of large-scale government works project that Democrats have shied away from in recent decades.
Sanders's jobs guarantee would fund hundreds of projects throughout the United States aimed at addressing priorities such as infrastructure, caregiving, the environment, education and other goals. Under the job guarantee, every American would be entitled to a job under one of these projects or receive job training to be able to do so, according to an early draft of the proposal.
A representative from Sanders's office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be paid for, saying they were still crafting the proposal.
Sanders joins two other rumored 2020 Democratic presidential contenders who have expressed support for the idea of a jobs guarantee. The push reflects a leftward move in the party's economic policy, away from President Barack Obama's use of public-private partnerships or government incentives to reshape private markets and toward an unambiguous embrace of direct government intervention.
Job guarantee advocates say their plan would drive up wages by dramatically increasing competition for workers, ensuring that corporations have to offer more generous salaries and benefits if they want to keep their employees from working for the government. Supporters say it would also reduce racial inequality, since black workers face unemployment at about twice the rates of white workers, as well as gender inequality, since many iterations of the plan call for the expansion of federal child-care work.
“The goal is to eliminate working poverty and involuntary unemployment altogether,” said Darrick Hamilton...
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Sanders is proof that liberalism is a mental disease.
Bernie doesn’t seem to realize that at least half his constituency have no interest in working, and will turn on him in a heartbeat if they think they’ll be forced to it.
After 20 million pot-smoking and video gaming Americans refuse to come out of their basements to work - what then, Bernie?
-—“The goal is to eliminate working poverty and involuntary unemployment altogether,” said Darrick Hamilton...—
So this dummy thinks $15.00 an hour will eliminate working poverty?
What is involuntary unemployment?
at 4% unemployment, what’s the need? And do we want ‘caregivers’ that are just clockwatching? Liberal youth outside in the humid, bug-ridden forest with no a/c, slinging shovels and machetes clearing brush? Not a chance
And to think.
Hillary and the DNC had to cheat and conspire at the Convention just to keep this fool from succeeding.
What a party!
generational welfare recipients...
I like the WPA.
It built the courthouse in my county.
Not sure many people want to do blue-collar work, even for $15 an hour.
Sanders’ isn’t going to find takers for what he has in mind.
No, Americans don’t want to do work Americans don’t do. Period.
When East Germany fell, VW agreed to take over the Trabant factory (it would have gone out of business otherwise). The first thing they had to do was lay off 2/3 of the workforce.
The old USSR had a standing joke. “They pretend to pay us with something of value and we pretend to work.”
The remnants of which still exist today.
Go to a public restroom in Ukraine and you'll meet three employees. One sells you admission, the second sells you toilet paper, and the third is on mop duty.
OK Bernie, as long as you guarantee EVERY job pays the same nationwide.
Bernie is placing Hillary into a job as a dog-walker in the woods of Chappaqua.
Comrades, your pay will be doubled!
(And your rent, grocery bills, medical insurance, property taxes and other expenses will double too. The 1% does about 2% of the work, ordinary people whose pay will be doubled do the other 98%.)
Those old ladies and gentlemen living on retirement savings?
They’ll have to take a 50% cut in their lifestyle.
Ignorance and stupidity at the highest level.
“Go to a public restroom in Ukraine and you’ll meet three employees. One sells you admission, the second sells you toilet paper, and the third is on mop duty. “
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And the three of them,and their families,probably share an apartment.
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Communists tried this. Didn’t work out too well.
“many iterations of the plan call for the expansion of federal child-care work”
Do you have any experience caring for children?
Yup, been at it two whole weeks now.
I’ll try elsewhere.
Are you accepting children?
We are waiting for state certification. We’ve told them not to rush just for us, we’re getting $15/hour for surfing the net.
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