Conservatives should do everything in their power to help these unemployed people get back on their feet, because it builds loyalty that lasts generations. Here are some ideas:
1) Since before the Great Depression, America has had such an overabundance of food that it starves farmers and ends up rotting in expensive warehouses. We could give every bit of the excess away, and it wouldn’t hurt our economy in the slightest, in fact it would save money. It is different than every other kind of welfare.
Keeping people hungry is a poor motivator, because all they can think about is their next meal, not getting their act together. So Republican conservatives should make it a point this time to provide a river of food aid. And ESPECIALLY kill this insane corn into ethanol nonsense.
2) Right now America has an overabundance of housing. Much of this will end up the property of the individual States. So why not encourage them to provide “relief housing” for the unemployed, with a twist. As long as they are unemployed, the housing is free, but once they get a job, they get a better place, and pay a nominal rent, for which they get *equity* in that house. If they keep their job and paying that low rent, eventually they will become home owners, free and clear.
Even if they just get a minimum wage job, they are highly motivated to keep working, and especially to keep the property up, because if they keep at it, eventually it will be theirs.
This saves the States money, because derelict houses pay no taxes, are fire hazards, and attract squatters and worse. Having somebody live in them and take care of them takes the load off the State government, and eventually starts turning a profit. Again, if it is done as a conservative initiative, its builds a LOT of loyalty to the Republican party.
3) How about a room a board jobs program, that stops illegal immigration? Put up tent garrisons along the border. Put a lot of the unemployed in them, for minimum wage, three meals a day, and some medical and dental care, and set them to patrol the border.
Sure, it’s temporary make work, but it puts a hundred thousand people to some work instead of on relief, while stopping the flow of illegal aliens and drugs into the US. Not much more expensive than paying unemployment.
Put it all together and it shows that conservative Republicans are acting to relieve people who are in “progressively” desperate straits, not just sitting on their heels while people suffer.
FDR got the Democrats 50 years of loyalty for just *trying* to do something. Republicans deserve at least that much, for *succeeding* in turning the economy around.
BUMP!
It’s not like unemployment offices hand out cash. Only reason they’d need to be armed is maybe liberalism is a mental disorder.
The best thing the republicans can do is get the govt off the backs of small business and let them create jobs for these people.
Those are some pretty good ideas.