A promise so big, Democrats aren’t sure how to keep it

[TalkRadio]

This radical idea is called a jobs guarantee, and Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Cory Booker of New Jersey have in the past few weeks come out in support of it. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, another 2020 presidential aspirant, stands behind the idea too. Representative Ro Khanna, who represents much of Silicon Valley, has legislation providing a government jobs guarantee forthcoming in the House, he told The Atlantic. The most powerful think tanks on the left—including the wonkish Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the politically attuned Center for American Progress, and the progressive Levy Economics Institute of Bard College—have published jobs-guarantee policies or are planning to do so. A blue-sky policy idea has become an animating policy mandate in a matter of months.

But guaranteeing every American a job means guaranteeing every American a job. It means countering the job losses caused by recessions and automation and globalization one-to-one. It means finding work for people in every town in half a continent. It means accommodating the homeless, the violent, the drug addicted, and the illiterate in the workforce. It means expanding the Department of Labor to become something like the size of the Department of Defense, and yet bigger during a downturn. It is a trillion-dollar logistical puzzle, wrapped in a politically fraught stimulus effort, inside an experimental economic enigma. And none of these proposals quite know how to solve it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...ratic-party-wants-to-end-unemployment/560153/

 

[ChinoMoreno]

man do you ever talk or just throw out links that no cares about? lol

 

[Rightguide]

Bernie, who honeymooned in the old Soviet Union and supported Communist activities and despots around the world, knows he can put everyone to work for the government and those who oppose the idea can be employed in giant Gulag-like labor camps for gruel and a sleeping bag...a place where labor disputes are solved with a bullet in the brain.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Bernie, who honeymooned in the old Soviet Union and supported Communist activities and despots around the world, knows he can put everyone to work for the government and those who oppose the idea can be employed in giant Gulag-like labor camps for gruel and a sleeping bag...a place where labor disputes are solved with a bullet in the brain.

The egalitarian utopia comrade!!!

How could you possibly desire anything else?

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

man do you ever talk or just throw out links that no cares about? lol

Took the words out of my mouth.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...ratic-party-wants-to-end-unemployment/560153/

Addressing the thread title - Since when have the demoquacks ever sure of a promise they can keep?

 

[Rightguide]

The egalitarian utopia comrade!!!

How could you possibly desire anything else?

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," Bernie deciding both.

 

[WoundedKnee]

I once read an article and have never been able to find it again written by a former East German intellectual lamenting the fact that after reunification, there was unemployment among her colleagues as well as the street sweepers that kept her country so clean and pristine. There, contained in that article, was the disconnect between economic reality and the illusions that created the fall of Communism, such as guaranteed work and income.

I do not think that she had ever read anything as profound as Player Piano or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

That sort of reading would have been on the ban list...

 

[OldJourno]

Took the words out of my mouth.

Yet there will be people here who will support this illogical legislation, support that would vanish if they would just read the opening two paragraphs and simply grasp the impossibility of what is proposed.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

Yet there will be people here who will support this illogical legislation, support that would vanish if they would just read the opening two paragraphs and simply grasp the impossibility of what is proposed.

Sadly, I concur.

 

[bellisarius]

We'll send millions to Nevada. Half will be put to work turning rocks into sand, the other half will glue the sand into boulders. The 'work' will never end.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

Who the hell honeymoons in the Soviet Union?

 

[Tristyn]

There will be no "guaranteed" jobs program.

There will be a single-payer healthcare program.

 

[Rightguide]

Who the hell honeymoons in the Soviet Union?

Commie sympathizers like Bernie in 1988.

 

[Rightguide]

There will be no "guaranteed" jobs program.

There will be a single-payer healthcare program.

Never happen in the United States, but do have more wine.