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...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What in the F does Sanders know about jobs?
You know as well as I that the Leprechaun should not have had that gold in the first place.
Correct! By law, no less. The punishment for not working was...forced labor!
Bernie’s an old commie who drank the koolaid. Kumbaya Bernie, Kumbaya.
LOL, that was nearly the same response I had when I read that line...
Sanders and his followers would be hilarious idiots, if it were not for the danger that millions of ignorant people could put a moron like him at the levers of power.
And 40-60% of Millennials think Socialism is just hunky dory.
There are no firings under communism.
Only executions.
An open admission that eightblong years of communistic govt didn’t work worth a damn. First step to getting people working again is to stop paying them NOT TO WOrk ( honestly disabled excepted).
The Federal Government is broke. It is over 2o Trillion dollars in the whole. Where is this old fool think he is going to get the money to pay for this socialism crap?
Ask Democratic senators up for election and house candidates if they agree with Sanders.
Bernie’s first step is to order warehouses full of printing presses, paper and ink - all will come from China, of course.
Then when every thing is set, he will cut the ribbon and, in a coast to coast live on every channel public and cable, the presses will begin to churn out massive amounts of money.
Venezuela ain’t got nothing on Bernie ...
That is why, at all costs, the curtain must never, Never, NEVER be pulled away from the part of the control booth that contains "price tag" indicators or controls.
They have to keep people ignorant until the point zoos are killing the zoo animals to distribute as food to people, and by then it is too late.
Will I have to work?
Not only does the above excerpt indicate that post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Sanders doesn’t actually have a meaningful jobs plan imo, but consider the following.
His election year dog-and-pony show probably overlooks proposed amendments to the Constitution that would give the feds the power to implement his vote-winning smoke-and-mirrors plan.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
14 States Hit Record-Low Unemployment
The state doesn't need to guarantee anything, Bernie, my man, it only needs to get the hell out of the way.
Sanders has never run a private business or maintained a payroll and inventory.
He thinks government can mandate personal prosperity. Government can’t even attain a balanced budget.
Yet Sanders expects it to guarantee a job to every American.
Go figure.
One of the Miracles of Communism:
“We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us”...
...they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be paid..
Of course not. Just pick the card it will be under in the latest democrat 3 card Monte.
How much will it cost? Anyone think they care? It will be paid for by repealing the tax cuts and raising taxes so we can all “share the wealth,” and “level the playing field,” or whatever the latest socialist catch phrase is.
Will everyone have to wear the same uniform???
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Yes, under the watchful eye of Obersturmfuhrer D. Hogg
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