[karpov]

Whey spend $300 billion on a federal jobs guarantee when the unemployment rate is 3.6%? Sanders did not hold a steady job until he was elected mayor at age 39. What does he know about work?

[catnipman]

“A Bernie Sanders presidency could begin modestly with a roughly $300 billion federal jobs guarantee before pushing for trillions of dollars in new spending on health care, the environment and infrastructure, says a key adviser to the U.S. Democratic front-runner. “

why? so “free” federal sitting-around-doing-nothing “jobs” can siphon workers from the full-employment economy?

[SkyDancer]

Like those “shovel ready” jobs 0bama was yakking about?

[MortMan]

...and expanded federal spending just as private sector incomes ebbed.

As if federal spending wasn't drawn from private sector incomes (along with way too much danged borrowing).

[I want the USA back]

Some a$$holes think that is a good idea. The government does not create jobs. It can issue a lot of money, which deflates its purchasing power. Initially, it looks good, since the public is too stupid to understand that the rising cost of goods is due to the government issuing money from nothing.

The idiots at royters are stupid as a rock.

[a fool in paradise]

$1,000 from every man woman and child to play for this redistribution

[BigEdLB]

New Post Bernie Pres National Anthem
With geographic name changes eg. Potomac replaces Volga, New York replaces Moscow.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

If Sanders gets elected he’s not going to do anything. All he’s going to care about is lining his pockets like all leftists. He might throw the proletariat a single bone like Obama did with Obamacare, but like Obamacare it’s going to be completely useless. The indoctrinated need to wake up to the fact that Trump is getting things done for the people, and liberals never EVER do anything for the people, ever. All they do is make things worse and line their pockets.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Bernie is thinking small. He should start with a $300 TRILLION jobs program in the first year.

[Elsie]

A jobs guarantee, which would see the federal government ensure employment for anyone who wanted to work...

 

 

I don't see a thing wrong with this plan.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It won’t be 3.6% for long if Bernie gets elected with a DemocRat Congress and starts greatly raising taxes to pay for the “free” goodies.

[DesertRhino]

Lemme guess, we all have to walk to the fields to work in agriculture, everyone with glasses gets shot, and we call it year one?

[know.your.why]

Oh he77 no! We don’t need no stinking jobs program, damn fool! The jobs problem has been taken care of. Figure out how to straighten out the dysfunctional Democratic states and start with California!

[Republican Wildcat]

Well I suppose there’s no problem spending a few hundred trillion dollars can’t solve...

[jeffc]

“I like very much the idea of getting a safeguard in place right away because, like most people, I worry about what happens when the next downturn comes,”

Words never uttered by a liberal during the obummer years. Now they're screaming it from the rooftops...

[unixfox]

300 Billion to hire more parasites. Just what we need.

[GraceG]

You can give a lazy hood rat a job, but you can never make him work!

[Fresh Wind]

A jobs guarantee, which would see the federal government ensure employment for anyone who wanted to work...

What about people who don't want to work? Will they get more than what the Sandersnistas want to pay for federal busywork?

[Boogieman]

“Kelton estimates the jobs guarantee would increase the federal deficit by about 1.5% of gross domestic product...”

Assuming that number is right, she’s only considering if the currently unemployed take advantage of this jobs program. She’s neglected to consider that tens of millions of people in crappy jobs they don’t like might quit and instead get a “guaranteed” federal job that probably pays them more and from which they can’t get fired, no matter how poorly they perform.

[kidd]

A Bernie Sanders presidency could begin modestly with a roughly $300 billion federal jobs guarantee

Modestly???

$300 billion = $3600 tax increase for an average family of four that is already fully employed.

How is that "modest" ?

This is an example of the cover that the MSM will give to Sanders.

[nwrep]