They don't want no stinkin' jobs!
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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The cost of groceries will jump over 100% in the first few months.
>>What if you’re a lousy employee? Can you be fired?
Why should they be treated different then any other government employee? No, job for life - regardless of skill or effort.
Socialist Workers Paradise - bump for later.....
What about the ones who don’t want a job?
What about the bone idle who don’t wish to work regardless of how much you pay to them.
Parents will demand their 11-year old daughters get the right to vote.
(And a free pony from President Saunders)
I agree with the exception of the unicorn whatever reference.
What could possibly go wrong?
Comrade! You have guaranteed job in salt mine!
Yep, that is exactly what the Ruskies did and all it did was create a nation of Vodkahoics who hated their jobs and the fact that they had to stand in line for hours to get a ration of itchy toilet paper.
Like when Oprah promises everyone a new car?
We've all seen this, everywhere. There are people who supposedly want a job, get one, and walk off the job after one day because, well, the employer expects the person to do actual work. And this scenario is about people who supposedly want a job (but are lazy).
Then there are the hordes who absolutely don't want a job, just free stuff. Bernie needs to open his eyes, approach them and force them to want a job. Won't happen, bums are bums.
EVERYBODY WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT
What the country soon turns into is a large gulag : Venezuela, cambodia, zimabawe, n korea , USSR, China(before capitalism or privately owned companies allowed) etc.
Every government run institution eventually turns into a gulag : gulags, Cuba, Venezuela, USA government schools, the DOJ, The FBI etc. need more proof?
Don’t poke fun at Bernie. He has a huge following and they are really not that smart. If Bernie says they have a job at $15 an hour and free healthcare, he is their god.
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