[Brilliant]

Sure. They can guarantee it. They just can’t honor the guaranty.

[BuffaloJack]

Nobody can guarantee you a job.

[Sherman Logan]

Can the Government Guarantee Everyone a Job?

Sure it can.

For a while.

Till the economy collapses.

[nhwingut]

The government would buy the labor of people who hold skills not demanded by the market, preventing those people from seeking out new skills. Stagnant human capital would just continue to stagnate.

In short, the Jobs Guarantee is a nice sounding project that might work out well on paper. But it doesn't work in the real world.

Sounds a lot like communism. With a spiffy new name.

[Happy Rain]

Marxist governments do—always full employment in the camps.

Obama’s ultimate goal for America.

[Morpheus2009]

A government that is licensed to give anything, can also take away anything.

[kindred]

The government cannot guarantee anything good and fails to do that which is just and right as a whole and is generally run by a dictators and fools and liars and thieves, as the current DC regimes has proven.

[Track9]

Breaking rocks in the hot sun is always available.. but I do that anyway so I guess the government is again useless.

[Still Thinking]

Can the Government Guarantee Everyone a Job?

Would anyone WANT a job whose very existence was a matter of government diktat? Well, any person whose opinion matters....

[Iron Munro]

[USS Alaska]

The MMT crowd tends to call this the "Jobs Guarantee." It's a good slogan. And after years of persistent unemployment, I bet a lot of Americans might think it is not too bad of an idea.

It worked pretty well over there.

Tens of millions starve, tens of millions sent to salve labor camps, no private property, limited food and consumer goods and finally total collapse.

Why not try it in the good ol' USA, after all, our liberals are smarter than their liberals.

We can change human nature and make it work.

[VanDeKoik]

What “job” can anyone guarantee for everyone?

I’m sure if you ask the fools that believe in such a thing, they all picture themselves as management, or CEO, or movie star, or NBA player.

Many of thee people scoff at a job washing dishes or cleaning septic systems and picking fruit.

And if a job is guaranteed, then why do a good job at it once you get it?

[Molon Labbie]

Lol. This assumes that everyone who is on unemployment wants to work.

There are millions who would be satisfied as long as the da guvamint guaranteed their EBT card was refilled every month and that they got those nice new section eight condos springing up all over the nation.

[festusbanjo]

A few years ago during the Welfare Reform push, the suggestion was made that all able bodied recipients needed to perform some sort of public service (picking up trash, cutting weeds, etc) for their continued benefit. The howls from the left about “returning to slavery” and “forced labor” were deafening. The success of liberalism is defined by how many people they are “helping”, instead of by how many people no longer need help.

[Iron Munro]

Can the Government Guarantee Everyone a Job?

Does cleaning toilets in a FEMA camp in exchange for a meal count as a job?

[sickoflibs]

It depends what you call ‘a job’.

[SuzyQue]

“The people working in JG jobs are not producing goods that the market needs. Their work product is largely waste. Which means that demand increases without the supply of desired goods increasing. The result: inflation. “

That pretty much sums it up: government jobs take resources out of the producing sector. You can get by with some non-production if your economy is good and strong. There is some limit to the amount of non-producing jobs that you can load up and pay for from the producing sector.

(And, not that all government jobs are bad or parasitic - some of them are necessary. But there’s a limit, and we have greatly exceeded it already.)

[Mike Darancette]

Worked so well in the USSR. Put old widows to sweeping the streets.

[sima_yi]

A government that pays for things with currency it creates can always just create more currency,...

Idiocy! No need to read any further.

[broken_arrow1]

COMMUNISM!!!