Since the FDR era, the unemployed have been wielded as an army to accrue power. There are motivations of self aggrandizement to maintain the pressures of high unemployment.
But, perhaps there are even more nefarious reasons.
1. "Mass unemployment can be a frightening spectacle. When a working-age person has meaningful daily tasksmaking a cappuccino, laying bricks, creating spreadsheetshis mind is active and occupied. He also has income, which means food on the table, a roof overhead, clothed children and a hopeful future. The employed mind tends to be happier, more stable, more content, more confident.
2.Take away employment, and two things begin to happen psychologically: First, as his bills mount and his stomach aches, the unemployed person becomes stressed and frustrated. As the situation persists, the anxiety evolves into desperation, hopelessness, even despair. Second, disenfranchised by his deteriorating circumstancesthe loss of the family home, his decline in status, marital tensionthe unemployed person can become emotionally and mentally vulnerable.
3. The one commodity the unemployed person now has is timetime for his susceptible, disillusioned mind to entertain new, often extreme or radical solutions that promise to rescue him from a system he believes has failed him. Disgruntled with the status quo, he longs for something new. A new political party, new ideologies, new leaders, new policiesa whole new system.
When unemployment is low, threats of social unrest and political transformation are easy to mitigate. When it reaches high levels over a sustained period, you suddenly have an army of disenfranchised, angry people. An army primed to embrace extreme political ideologies. An army ready to follow a leader who promises salvation. An army primed to overthrow the established system.
When this happens, unemployment stops being merely an unfortunate economic issue and becomes an alarming social and political crisis that can lead to majoreven worldwidecatastrophe!"
An Army Waiting for a Leader - theTrumpet.com
2. Welfare as a wholly owned subsidiary of the government, and its main result is the incentivizing of a disrespect for oneself, and for the entity that provides the welfare. As more folks in a poor neighborhood languish with little or no work, entire local culture begins to change: daily work is no longer the expected social norm. Extended periods of hanging around the neighborhood, neither working nor going to school becoming more and more socially acceptable.
a. Since productive activity not making any economic sense because of the work disincentives of the welfare plantation, other kinds of activities proliferate: drug and alcohol abuse, crime, recreational sex, illegitimacy, and family breakup are the new social norms, as does the culture of violence.
3. Liberal hand-outs, i.e., welfare, is the cause of unemployment rather than the solution. Charles Murrays Losing Ground documented this effect using social indicators such as work, marriage, legitimacy, crime, and alcohol and drug abuse, and showing how the massive increase in government welfare programs worsened the problem.
a. A key to why poverty ceased to decline almost as soon as the War on Poverty began, is that the poor and lower-income population stopped working, and this led to the other deteriorating social conditions Murray cites. In 1960, almost 2/3 of lowest-income households were headed by persons who worked. http://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-080.pdf
b. By 1991, this number was down to only one third .and only 11% working full time. Nor was this due to being unable to find work, as the 80s and 90s were boom times.
4. With government welfare programs offering such generous and wide-ranging benefits, form housing to medical care to food stamps to outright cash, many reduce or eliminate their work effort. Proof? Sure.
The government conducted a study, 1971-1978 known as the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment, or SIME-DIME, in which low income families were give a guaranteed income, a welfare package with everything liberal policy makers could hope for. Result: for every dollar of extra welfare given, low income recipients reduced their labor by 80 cents. http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/12794.pdf
5.So.....why would devious politicians want to INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT???
a. In 1934, William A. Wirt testified in Congress that officials of FDR's Agriculture Department planned on retarding economic recovery to speed the revolution, and so they can rebuild America in the Soviet's image. "Wirt claimed he had "discovered" evidence of a plot within FDR's administration to launch a Bolshevik takeover of the United States..... "....." The Washington Monthly
b. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y]Obama civilian national security force. - YouTube[/ame]
But, perhaps there are even more nefarious reasons.
1. "Mass unemployment can be a frightening spectacle. When a working-age person has meaningful daily tasksmaking a cappuccino, laying bricks, creating spreadsheetshis mind is active and occupied. He also has income, which means food on the table, a roof overhead, clothed children and a hopeful future. The employed mind tends to be happier, more stable, more content, more confident.
2.Take away employment, and two things begin to happen psychologically: First, as his bills mount and his stomach aches, the unemployed person becomes stressed and frustrated. As the situation persists, the anxiety evolves into desperation, hopelessness, even despair. Second, disenfranchised by his deteriorating circumstancesthe loss of the family home, his decline in status, marital tensionthe unemployed person can become emotionally and mentally vulnerable.
3. The one commodity the unemployed person now has is timetime for his susceptible, disillusioned mind to entertain new, often extreme or radical solutions that promise to rescue him from a system he believes has failed him. Disgruntled with the status quo, he longs for something new. A new political party, new ideologies, new leaders, new policiesa whole new system.
When unemployment is low, threats of social unrest and political transformation are easy to mitigate. When it reaches high levels over a sustained period, you suddenly have an army of disenfranchised, angry people. An army primed to embrace extreme political ideologies. An army ready to follow a leader who promises salvation. An army primed to overthrow the established system.
When this happens, unemployment stops being merely an unfortunate economic issue and becomes an alarming social and political crisis that can lead to majoreven worldwidecatastrophe!"
An Army Waiting for a Leader - theTrumpet.com
2. Welfare as a wholly owned subsidiary of the government, and its main result is the incentivizing of a disrespect for oneself, and for the entity that provides the welfare. As more folks in a poor neighborhood languish with little or no work, entire local culture begins to change: daily work is no longer the expected social norm. Extended periods of hanging around the neighborhood, neither working nor going to school becoming more and more socially acceptable.
a. Since productive activity not making any economic sense because of the work disincentives of the welfare plantation, other kinds of activities proliferate: drug and alcohol abuse, crime, recreational sex, illegitimacy, and family breakup are the new social norms, as does the culture of violence.
3. Liberal hand-outs, i.e., welfare, is the cause of unemployment rather than the solution. Charles Murrays Losing Ground documented this effect using social indicators such as work, marriage, legitimacy, crime, and alcohol and drug abuse, and showing how the massive increase in government welfare programs worsened the problem.
a. A key to why poverty ceased to decline almost as soon as the War on Poverty began, is that the poor and lower-income population stopped working, and this led to the other deteriorating social conditions Murray cites. In 1960, almost 2/3 of lowest-income households were headed by persons who worked. http://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-080.pdf
b. By 1991, this number was down to only one third .and only 11% working full time. Nor was this due to being unable to find work, as the 80s and 90s were boom times.
4. With government welfare programs offering such generous and wide-ranging benefits, form housing to medical care to food stamps to outright cash, many reduce or eliminate their work effort. Proof? Sure.
The government conducted a study, 1971-1978 known as the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment, or SIME-DIME, in which low income families were give a guaranteed income, a welfare package with everything liberal policy makers could hope for. Result: for every dollar of extra welfare given, low income recipients reduced their labor by 80 cents. http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/12794.pdf
5.So.....why would devious politicians want to INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT???
a. In 1934, William A. Wirt testified in Congress that officials of FDR's Agriculture Department planned on retarding economic recovery to speed the revolution, and so they can rebuild America in the Soviet's image. "Wirt claimed he had "discovered" evidence of a plot within FDR's administration to launch a Bolshevik takeover of the United States..... "....." The Washington Monthly
b. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y]Obama civilian national security force. - YouTube[/ame]
