The Jobless Trap: we are indeed creating a permanent class of jobless Americans
Apr 22, 2013 03:23:01 #
Apr 22, 2013 09:33:08 #
I have an idea - probably illegal, but it's an idea anyway.
If those of us who pay taxes, would take that same money, hire the unemployed, I'll bet we could have 95% employment by the end of the year. That way the tax money wouldn't be thrown down a rat hole as usual, the money would stay in circulation, thereby creating more jobs for more people.
The people we hire could be hired to keep the highways clean, could be to provide t***sportation to those who have none, could be to work farms and factories producing the things that employed people then BUY.
What do you think? I think it is a win/win deal. While keeping the polilticians' hands off the money, we could solve a couple of the problems those same politicians have CAUSED.
If those of us who pay taxes, would take that same money, hire the unemployed, I'll bet we could have 95% employment by the end of the year. That way the tax money wouldn't be thrown down a rat hole as usual, the money would stay in circulation, thereby creating more jobs for more people.
The people we hire could be hired to keep the highways clean, could be to provide t***sportation to those who have none, could be to work farms and factories producing the things that employed people then BUY.
What do you think? I think it is a win/win deal. While keeping the polilticians' hands off the money, we could solve a couple of the problems those same politicians have CAUSED.
Apr 23, 2013 07:53:04 #
I too was unable to find s job that paid well after I got laid off. Being a single woman, I really couldn't afford the huge pay-cut, so I had to start my own business.
Much happier now than when I had a great job that paid good money. My only issue now is health insurance, as soon as I'm satisfied that my income will be steady, I'll buy my own.
Much happier now than when I had a great job that paid good money. My only issue now is health insurance, as soon as I'm satisfied that my income will be steady, I'll buy my own.
Apr 23, 2013 12:37:17 #
Apr 23, 2013 14:51:47 #
oldroy
Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
OPP Newsletter wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/opinion/krugman-the-jobless-trap.html
Now it is time for Krugman to deal with why we no longer count those who gave up looking and just went on the public dole to eat and have a roof over their heads. He wants us to all believe that the reason for this problem is conservatives wanting to do away with, at least, some debt. He doesn't seem to see that many of our people who have been long term unemployed have been put there by government policies and that those policies came from things like the failure of the federal government to use any kind of budget other than the Reid preferred charge card for the executive branch to spend from.
Yep, that Krugman is one great supporter of socialism and all that comes with it.
Apr 23, 2013 14:55:42 #
oldroy
Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
just_sayin' wrote:
I too was unable to find s job that paid well after I got laid off. Being a single woman, I really couldn't afford the huge pay-cut, so I had to start my own business.
Much happier now than when I had a great job that paid good money. My only issue now is health insurance, as soon as I'm satisfied that my income will be steady, I'll buy my own.
Much happier now than when I had a great job that paid good money. My only issue now is health insurance, as soon as I'm satisfied that my income will be steady, I'll buy my own.
I became jobless when I was 53 and couldn't find any other schools I would consider teaching in that would hire me because I had too many years experience (28) and too many college degrees. They just couldn't afford to hire me because of deals they had made with their teachers' unions. I even offered to work for less than salary schedules but the unions wouldn't allow anything like that. I was forced to open my own small business which was rather physically demanding and by 70 I just wasn't able to do the work any more because of arthritis is my wrists.
Yep, I am proud of people like you who take the reins in their teeth and get along without government.
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