Your Government Owes You a Job

[georgephillip]

And again you are asking those who caused the problem to fix it. That doesn't make since to me. The Status Quo needs to go so they can stop their BS. You are again wanting the same arsonist to rebuild your house.

Who or what is the Status Quo, oligarchy or democracy?

They are the very ones you complain about. Those career politicians who serve themselves rather than the people. How? By creating policy that favors those that donate to their cause irregardless of the consequences. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

We didn't create a pure Democracy because of the history of the abuses in that system. It is talked about in the Federalist Papers. We allowed Gov't too much power and they have used that power for capital gain and political power. They have abused the powers of the Federal Gov't giving orgs like the EPA, BLM, and IRS to make policy decisions based on BROAD LAWS, and create new rules and regulations at their pleasure whether it represents the Republic or not.

That is Tyranny. Not a Republic. And when they dictate the rules without the consent of the people, no matter how they cherry pick the data, you go to dictatorial Rule and the Oligarchy.

You condemn with a broad brush and use this broad brush to justify your view of Gov't with all the power, which means you are for an Oligarchy whether you like it or not.

Why can't you try to RESTORE THE REPUBLIC with your views instead of giving the beast more power than it already has now?

Because the beast I see is the corporation with its influence over government and not government itself. IMHO, the corporations control all three branches of this government and both major political parties.

"The goals of corporate capitalism are increasingly indistinguishable from the goals of the state.

"The political and economic systems are subservient to corporate profit.

"Debate between conventional liberals and conservatives has been replaced by empty political theater and spectacle.

"Corporations, no matter which politicians are in office, loot the Treasury, escape taxation, push down wages, break unions, dismantle civil society, gut regulation and legal oversight, control information, prosecute endless war and dismantle public institutions and programs that include schools, welfare and Social Security.

"And elected officials, enriched through our form of legalized corporate bribery, have no intention of halting the process."

The corporation wasn't a factor when this republic was founded; today, it is the dominant economic factor, and it has little use for democracy or republics, for that matter.

I believe we have to increase the democratic power of government in order to survive the corporate onslaught on the rights and needs of ordinary citizens.

Drown government in the closest bathtub, and corporations will fill the power vacuum for the benefit of oligarchs only.

Chris Hedges | Capitalism, Not Government Is the Problem

 

[eagle1462010]

Who or what is the Status Quo, oligarchy or democracy?

They are the very ones you complain about. Those career politicians who serve themselves rather than the people. How? By creating policy that favors those that donate to their cause irregardless of the consequences. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

We didn't create a pure Democracy because of the history of the abuses in that system. It is talked about in the Federalist Papers. We allowed Gov't too much power and they have used that power for capital gain and political power. They have abused the powers of the Federal Gov't giving orgs like the EPA, BLM, and IRS to make policy decisions based on BROAD LAWS, and create new rules and regulations at their pleasure whether it represents the Republic or not.

That is Tyranny. Not a Republic. And when they dictate the rules without the consent of the people, no matter how they cherry pick the data, you go to dictatorial Rule and the Oligarchy.

You condemn with a broad brush and use this broad brush to justify your view of Gov't with all the power, which means you are for an Oligarchy whether you like it or not.

Why can't you try to RESTORE THE REPUBLIC with your views instead of giving the beast more power than it already has now?

Because the beast I see is the corporation with its influence over government and not government itself. IMHO, the corporations control all three branches of this government and both major political parties.

"The goals of corporate capitalism are increasingly indistinguishable from the goals of the state.

"The political and economic systems are subservient to corporate profit.

"Debate between conventional liberals and conservatives has been replaced by empty political theater and spectacle.

"Corporations, no matter which politicians are in office, loot the Treasury, escape taxation, push down wages, break unions, dismantle civil society, gut regulation and legal oversight, control information, prosecute endless war and dismantle public institutions and programs that include schools, welfare and Social Security.

"And elected officials, enriched through our form of legalized corporate bribery, have no intention of halting the process."

The corporation wasn't a factor when this republic was founded; today, it is the dominant economic factor, and it has little use for democracy or republics, for that matter.

I believe we have to increase the democratic power of government in order to survive the corporate onslaught on the rights and needs of ordinary citizens.

Drown government in the closest bathtub, and corporations will fill the power vacuum for the benefit of oligarchs only.

Chris Hedges | Capitalism, Not Government Is the Problem

So in your limited view, our representatives can't tell them to F......Off...................

I would, but those in power don't.

Which is why they need to go.

 

[georgephillip]

They are the very ones you complain about. Those career politicians who serve themselves rather than the people. How? By creating policy that favors those that donate to their cause irregardless of the consequences. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

We didn't create a pure Democracy because of the history of the abuses in that system. It is talked about in the Federalist Papers. We allowed Gov't too much power and they have used that power for capital gain and political power. They have abused the powers of the Federal Gov't giving orgs like the EPA, BLM, and IRS to make policy decisions based on BROAD LAWS, and create new rules and regulations at their pleasure whether it represents the Republic or not.

That is Tyranny. Not a Republic. And when they dictate the rules without the consent of the people, no matter how they cherry pick the data, you go to dictatorial Rule and the Oligarchy.

You condemn with a broad brush and use this broad brush to justify your view of Gov't with all the power, which means you are for an Oligarchy whether you like it or not.

Why can't you try to RESTORE THE REPUBLIC with your views instead of giving the beast more power than it already has now?

Because the beast I see is the corporation with its influence over government and not government itself. IMHO, the corporations control all three branches of this government and both major political parties.

"The goals of corporate capitalism are increasingly indistinguishable from the goals of the state.

"The political and economic systems are subservient to corporate profit.

"Debate between conventional liberals and conservatives has been replaced by empty political theater and spectacle.

"Corporations, no matter which politicians are in office, loot the Treasury, escape taxation, push down wages, break unions, dismantle civil society, gut regulation and legal oversight, control information, prosecute endless war and dismantle public institutions and programs that include schools, welfare and Social Security.

"And elected officials, enriched through our form of legalized corporate bribery, have no intention of halting the process."

The corporation wasn't a factor when this republic was founded; today, it is the dominant economic factor, and it has little use for democracy or republics, for that matter.

I believe we have to increase the democratic power of government in order to survive the corporate onslaught on the rights and needs of ordinary citizens.

Drown government in the closest bathtub, and corporations will fill the power vacuum for the benefit of oligarchs only.

Chris Hedges | Capitalism, Not Government Is the Problem

So in your limited view, our representatives can't tell them to F......Off...................

I would, but those in power don't.

Which is why they need to go.

Who will you replace them with?

"It is capitalism, not government, that is the problem. The fusion of corporate and state power means that government is broken. It is little more than a protection racket for Wall Street. And it is our job to wrest government back. This will come only through the building of mass movements."

Chris Hedges | Capitalism, Not Government Is the Problem

 

[eagle1462010]

Because the beast I see is the corporation with its influence over government and not government itself. IMHO, the corporations control all three branches of this government and both major political parties.

"The goals of corporate capitalism are increasingly indistinguishable from the goals of the state.

"The political and economic systems are subservient to corporate profit.

"Debate between conventional liberals and conservatives has been replaced by empty political theater and spectacle.

"Corporations, no matter which politicians are in office, loot the Treasury, escape taxation, push down wages, break unions, dismantle civil society, gut regulation and legal oversight, control information, prosecute endless war and dismantle public institutions and programs that include schools, welfare and Social Security.

"And elected officials, enriched through our form of legalized corporate bribery, have no intention of halting the process."

The corporation wasn't a factor when this republic was founded; today, it is the dominant economic factor, and it has little use for democracy or republics, for that matter.

I believe we have to increase the democratic power of government in order to survive the corporate onslaught on the rights and needs of ordinary citizens.

Drown government in the closest bathtub, and corporations will fill the power vacuum for the benefit of oligarchs only.

Chris Hedges | Capitalism, Not Government Is the Problem

So in your limited view, our representatives can't tell them to F......Off...................

I would, but those in power don't.

Which is why they need to go.

Who will you replace them with?

"It is capitalism, not government, that is the problem. The fusion of corporate and state power means that government is broken. It is little more than a protection racket for Wall Street. And it is our job to wrest government back. This will come only through the building of mass movements."

Chris Hedges | Capitalism, Not Government Is the Problem

Capitalism didn't cause this. Crony Capitalism caused this. The Fiat Money machine caused this. The Derivatives caused this.

None of that is from the real world of Supply and Demand. Not what Capitalism is about at all.

You condemn a system that has absolutely worked in history, by throwing the whole system under the bus because of the actions of those who have screwed the thing up.

And your answer is to give them even more power.

You seriously need to rethink your thought process.

 

[georgephillip]

So in your limited view, our representatives can't tell them to F......Off...................

I would, but those in power don't.

Which is why they need to go.

Who will you replace them with?

"It is capitalism, not government, that is the problem. The fusion of corporate and state power means that government is broken. It is little more than a protection racket for Wall Street. And it is our job to wrest government back. This will come only through the building of mass movements."

Chris Hedges | Capitalism, Not Government Is the Problem

Capitalism didn't cause this. Crony Capitalism caused this. The Fiat Money machine caused this. The Derivatives caused this.

None of that is from the real world of Supply and Demand. Not what Capitalism is about at all.

You condemn a system that has absolutely worked in history, by throwing the whole system under the bus because of the actions of those who have screwed the thing up.

And your answer is to give them even more power.

You seriously need to rethink your thought process.

Corporate capitalism caused this:

"Thomas Jefferson, one of the founders of the United States democratic system, said 'I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's [sic] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.'[3]

"Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an April 29, 1938 message to Congress, warned that the growth of private power could lead to fascism:
'[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.

"'That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.'"

Corporate capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oligarchs own this government, and they will be only too happy to see its demise; however, what comes next won't be democratic or republican.

 

[eagle1462010]

Who will you replace them with?

"It is capitalism, not government, that is the problem. The fusion of corporate and state power means that government is broken. It is little more than a protection racket for Wall Street. And it is our job to wrest government back. This will come only through the building of mass movements."

Chris Hedges | Capitalism, Not Government Is the Problem

Capitalism didn't cause this. Crony Capitalism caused this. The Fiat Money machine caused this. The Derivatives caused this.

None of that is from the real world of Supply and Demand. Not what Capitalism is about at all.

You condemn a system that has absolutely worked in history, by throwing the whole system under the bus because of the actions of those who have screwed the thing up.

And your answer is to give them even more power.

You seriously need to rethink your thought process.

Corporate capitalism caused this:

"Thomas Jefferson, one of the founders of the United States democratic system, said 'I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's [sic] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.'[3]

"Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an April 29, 1938 message to Congress, warned that the growth of private power could lead to fascism:
'[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.

"'That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.'"

Corporate capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oligarchs own this government, and they will be only too happy to see its demise; however, what comes next won't be democratic or republican.

All done by ditching the Constitution. By taking away State's Rights. And giving too much power to the Fed............

Our Republic is damaged period.

 

[georgephillip]

Capitalism didn't cause this. Crony Capitalism caused this. The Fiat Money machine caused this. The Derivatives caused this.

None of that is from the real world of Supply and Demand. Not what Capitalism is about at all.

You condemn a system that has absolutely worked in history, by throwing the whole system under the bus because of the actions of those who have screwed the thing up.

And your answer is to give them even more power.

You seriously need to rethink your thought process.

Corporate capitalism caused this:

"Thomas Jefferson, one of the founders of the United States democratic system, said 'I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's [sic] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.'[3]

"Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an April 29, 1938 message to Congress, warned that the growth of private power could lead to fascism:
'[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.

"'That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.'"

Corporate capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oligarchs own this government, and they will be only too happy to see its demise; however, what comes next won't be democratic or republican.

All done by ditching the Constitution. By taking away State's Rights. And giving too much power to the Fed............

Our Republic is damaged period.

Private corporate power currently trumps the democratic control of federal government in the US.
How will restoring States Rights improve that inequality?

 

[Chris]

Out of control corporate power is America's biggest problem.

Wall Street ran a derivatives based Ponzi scheme that destroyed the world economy in 2008. The food industry spends billions of dollars pushing the worst kind of processed food which causes cancer and heart disease. The alcohol, tobacco, and gun industries push their products all of which do great damage to the people who use them. Corporate lobbyists do all they can to allow industries to pollute our food, water, and air and rip off the public at every turn. And now Republicans on the Supreme Court have voted to allow unlimited secret campaign contributions....basically legalized bribes.

By contrast Canada does not allow any corporate campaign contributions. As a result they have universal healthcare, gay marriage, sensible gun laws, and a well regulated banking system. In fact since 1790, the United States has had 16 banking system failures, and Canada has had 0.

Are the Canadians smarter than us? Yes.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Corporate capitalism caused this:

"Thomas Jefferson, one of the founders of the United States democratic system, said 'I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's [sic] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.'[3]

"Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an April 29, 1938 message to Congress, warned that the growth of private power could lead to fascism:
'[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.

"'That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.'"

Corporate capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oligarchs own this government, and they will be only too happy to see its demise; however, what comes next won't be democratic or republican.

All done by ditching the Constitution. By taking away State's Rights. And giving too much power to the Fed............

Our Republic is damaged period.

Private corporate power currently trumps the democratic control of federal government in the US.
How will restoring States Rights improve that inequality?

First point. Government is not supposed to be more powerful than the private sector nor the People. Second point. Government's primary function is to serve. Not to lead. Not to dominate.
Lastly, your use of the term "inequality" presupposes the notion of a 'mandate' of equality. No such mandate exists.
Your side's consistent throwing about various contexts of "equality" is nothing more than fodder for political expediency.
"Wealth inequality", "Income inequality", "Share of income", "share of wealth"...These are terms used to gin up support for the democrat political base.
They are also used by those who feel entitled to the earnings and wealth of others because it makes them uncomfortable.
Your side attempts to further the idea that excessive taxation will result in the leveling of some imaginary playing field.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Out of control corporate power is America's biggest problem.

Wall Street ran a derivatives based Ponzi scheme that destroyed the world economy in 2008. The food industry spends billions of dollars pushing the worst kind of processed food which causes cancer and heart disease. The alcohol, tobacco, and gun industries push their products all of which do great damage to the people who use them. Corporate lobbyists do all they can to allow industries to pollute our food, water, and air and rip off the public at every turn. And now Republicans on the Supreme Court have voted to allow unlimited secret campaign contributions....basically legalized bribes.

By contrast Canada does not allow any corporate campaign contributions. As a result they have universal healthcare, gay marriage, sensible gun laws, and a well regulated banking system. In fact since 1790, the United States has had 16 banking system failures, and Canada has had 0.

Are the Canadians smarter than us? Yes.

Then your solution is to move to Canada.
There you can enjoy all their socialist security. And their speech codes. And their confiscatory taxation. And 2 month waits to see a cancer specialist.
Our system is not perfect. Not close. However, our system is the greatest achievement in freedom, both societal and economic the World has ever known or will ever know.
Our system does the best for the most.
You people keep pining away for socialism. You stand on the beaches of the Atlantic staring at the horizon wishing your country could be "just like them"...No one is forcing you to stay here. That's the beauty of liberty. You are free to come and go as you please. The operative in this case being "go".

 

[georgephillip]

Out of control corporate power is America's biggest problem.

Wall Street ran a derivatives based Ponzi scheme that destroyed the world economy in 2008. The food industry spends billions of dollars pushing the worst kind of processed food which causes cancer and heart disease. The alcohol, tobacco, and gun industries push their products all of which do great damage to the people who use them. Corporate lobbyists do all they can to allow industries to pollute our food, water, and air and rip off the public at every turn. And now Republicans on the Supreme Court have voted to allow unlimited secret campaign contributions....basically legalized bribes.

By contrast Canada does not allow any corporate campaign contributions. As a result they have universal healthcare, gay marriage, sensible gun laws, and a well regulated banking system. In fact since 1790, the United States has had 16 banking system failures, and Canada has had 0.

Are the Canadians smarter than us? Yes.

I suspect they are, but they are also swirling the same bowl as the rest of the globe:

"Global Picture
Glut of labor - nearly everywhere
Dearth of jobs - nearly everywhere
Pressure on wages - nearly everywhere
Consumer attitudes towards borrowing and going into debt have soured - US and Europe
Demographics of Aging Boomers - US, Japan, Europe
Student loans turn kids fresh out of college into debt slaves - US
Low household formation - Many countries including US
Household deleveraging - US and Europe
Property bubbles in China, Australia, Canada, UK
Credit explosion in China
Massive overbuilding of infrastructure in China
Massive problems, inefficiencies, and hidden debt related to SOEs in China
Technology trends suggest more layoffs in widespread industries - everywhere
European banks leveraged to the hilt in their own sovereign bonds
European banks in worse shape than US banks
Abenomics - Japan
Insufficient retirement savings - everywhere"

Perhaps, out of control corporate power is this world's biggest problem?

How Does US Debt Stack Up Globally? - Mike Shedlock - Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary - Page 1

 

[hazlnut]

Sounds outlandish, doesn't it?

"A right to a job may sound outlandish, but it’s common sense. You need dollars to eat, and unless you steal the dollars, you generally have to earn them.

"If the government wants to protect property with cops, courts, and prisons, issue a single, common currency, and tax and fine us in it, it should at least guarantee we can work for our own dollars.

"Politicians ramble about equality of opportunity and the dignity of work, but to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, we need boots.

"And lest our boots stomp each other’s necks in senseless competition for too few jobs, we need a job guarantee.

"A job guarantee isn’t that radical.

"Thomas Paine proposed one in 1791.

"In 1944, FDR included the right to a living wage job in his Second Bill of Rights and his Republican opponent promised state-ensured employment.

"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrined the right to work and philosophers Rawls and Dewey advocated government provide enough work.

"LBJ deliberated a JG and Martin Luther King Jr., demanded one."

Your Government Owes You a Job | The Nation

Since US Capitalism prefers extracting wealth as opposed to producing wealth leading to a situation where median household income today, adjusted for inflation, is lower than it was in 1989, it becomes clear that US capitalism no longer delivers the goods for a majority of its citizens.

The democratic solution calls for government to provide what the private sector is no longer capable of providing.

As long as Government is trying to limit or block women's health care and family planning, the population will continue to grow beyond the job market-- especially the number of jobs for low-income people with a high school education or lower.

What's going to be interesting is when mid-level employees begin being replaced by AI computers. Who needs an accounting department or a paralegal--we can have a machine do it. Secretaries, and all types of support staff will disappear.

 

[hazlnut]

I don't think government has to SUPPLY the job, but they can certainly offer incentives towards hiring.

That's what most of the Tea Brains don't understand about Taxes--they serve a dual purpose - funding public sector, incentives towards fiscal behavior.

 

[georgephillip]

All done by ditching the Constitution. By taking away State's Rights. And giving too much power to the Fed............

Our Republic is damaged period.

Private corporate power currently trumps the democratic control of federal government in the US.
How will restoring States Rights improve that inequality?

First point. Government is not supposed to be more powerful than the private sector nor the People. Second point. Government's primary function is to serve. Not to lead. Not to dominate.
Lastly, your use of the term "inequality" presupposes the notion of a 'mandate' of equality. No such mandate exists.
Your side's consistent throwing about various contexts of "equality" is nothing more than fodder for political expediency.
"Wealth inequality", "Income inequality", "Share of income", "share of wealth"...These are terms used to gin up support for the democrat political base.
They are also used by those who feel entitled to the earnings and wealth of others because it makes them uncomfortable.
Your side attempts to further the idea that excessive taxation will result in the leveling of some imaginary playing field.

When US taxpayers turned over 11.2 billion dollars to the board of directors and major shareholders of GM after the crash of '08, does that make you uncomfortable? Government has the potential to represent all the people.
Corporations exist to serve a minority of rich people at the expense of the majority.
Every government ever invented has served its richest citizens at the expense of their majorities. That isn't government's fault; it's the fault of those who worship the rich and support their many crimes because of an accident of birth.
Your side is on the wrong side of History.

 

[eagle1462010]

It never had to be this way. We and the world came off Gold Standards, and began the printing Machines of Fiat money and basically financially destroyed ourselves. Whether it be Manipulation from the Fed, the IMF, or the Yen.

Japan has been in a liquidity Trap for Decades. Buying time with currency manipulation.

It is the idiocy of the currency machines that have done this.

 

[Chris]

It never had to be this way. We and the world came off Gold Standards, and began the printing Machines of Fiat money and basically financially destroyed ourselves. Whether it be Manipulation from the Fed, the IMF, or the Yen.

Japan has been in a liquidity Trap for Decades. Buying time with currency manipulation.

It is the idiocy of the currency machines that have done this.

No, it is too much money in too few hands.

Income inequality is the problem.

 

[Chris]

Out of control corporate power is America's biggest problem.

Wall Street ran a derivatives based Ponzi scheme that destroyed the world economy in 2008. The food industry spends billions of dollars pushing the worst kind of processed food which causes cancer and heart disease. The alcohol, tobacco, and gun industries push their products all of which do great damage to the people who use them. Corporate lobbyists do all they can to allow industries to pollute our food, water, and air and rip off the public at every turn. And now Republicans on the Supreme Court have voted to allow unlimited secret campaign contributions....basically legalized bribes.

By contrast Canada does not allow any corporate campaign contributions. As a result they have universal healthcare, gay marriage, sensible gun laws, and a well regulated banking system. In fact since 1790, the United States has had 16 banking system failures, and Canada has had 0.

Are the Canadians smarter than us? Yes.

Then your solution is to move to Canada.
There you can enjoy all their socialist security. And their speech codes. And their confiscatory taxation. And 2 month waits to see a cancer specialist.
Our system is not perfect. Not close. However, our system is the greatest achievement in freedom, both societal and economic the World has ever known or will ever know.
Our system does the best for the most.
You people keep pining away for socialism. You stand on the beaches of the Atlantic staring at the horizon wishing your country could be "just like them"...No one is forcing you to stay here. That's the beauty of liberty. You are free to come and go as you please. The operative in this case being "go".

Our system is inferior to the Canadian system. Corporate money controlling the government is the problem. Get rid of the money and the system works better.

 

[eagle1462010]

It never had to be this way. We and the world came off Gold Standards, and began the printing Machines of Fiat money and basically financially destroyed ourselves. Whether it be Manipulation from the Fed, the IMF, or the Yen.

Japan has been in a liquidity Trap for Decades. Buying time with currency manipulation.

It is the idiocy of the currency machines that have done this.

No, it is too much money in too few hands.

Income inequality is the problem.

No it is not. That is a dang myth.

It is a straw man argument for the real problem we have today.

It is the money machine going hay wire that created the over 1000 Trillion in Derivatives in 7 years. It has done it again since the crash. It is Free Trade which have outsourced our jobs.

It is debt out the butt, and Fiat Currency out the butt that have taken us into the abyss and lowered our standard of living.

All Fing caused by or so called leaders and career politicians who are nothing more than whores.

 

[georgephillip]

Sounds outlandish, doesn't it?

"A right to a job may sound outlandish, but it’s common sense. You need dollars to eat, and unless you steal the dollars, you generally have to earn them.

"If the government wants to protect property with cops, courts, and prisons, issue a single, common currency, and tax and fine us in it, it should at least guarantee we can work for our own dollars.

"Politicians ramble about equality of opportunity and the dignity of work, but to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, we need boots.

"And lest our boots stomp each other’s necks in senseless competition for too few jobs, we need a job guarantee.

"A job guarantee isn’t that radical.

"Thomas Paine proposed one in 1791.

"In 1944, FDR included the right to a living wage job in his Second Bill of Rights and his Republican opponent promised state-ensured employment.

"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrined the right to work and philosophers Rawls and Dewey advocated government provide enough work.

"LBJ deliberated a JG and Martin Luther King Jr., demanded one."

Your Government Owes You a Job | The Nation

Since US Capitalism prefers extracting wealth as opposed to producing wealth leading to a situation where median household income today, adjusted for inflation, is lower than it was in 1989, it becomes clear that US capitalism no longer delivers the goods for a majority of its citizens.

The democratic solution calls for government to provide what the private sector is no longer capable of providing.

As long as Government is trying to limit or block women's health care and family planning, the population will continue to grow beyond the job market-- especially the number of jobs for low-income people with a high school education or lower.

What's going to be interesting is when mid-level employees begin being replaced by AI computers. Who needs an accounting department or a paralegal--we can have a machine do it. Secretaries, and all types of support staff will disappear.

The job market growing faster than capitalism's ability to produce jobs will eventually require us to determine the purpose of an economy.

CH Douglas thought there were three possibilities:

"1. The first of these is that it is a disguised Government, of which the primary, though admittedly not the only, object is to impose upon the world a system of thought and action.
2. The second alternative has a certain similarity to the first, but is simpler. It assumes that the primary objective of the industrial system is the provision of employment.
3. And the third, which is essentially simpler still, in fact, so simple that it appears entirely unintelligible to the majority, is that the object of the industrial system is merely to provide goods and services"

If the purpose is #3, AI computers can free paralegals and support staff from the need to work in order to survive. Of course, there will be a certain amount of redistribution of the fruits of capitalism required.

Social credit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[regent]

All done by ditching the Constitution. By taking away State's Rights. And giving too much power to the Fed............

Our Republic is damaged period.

Private corporate power currently trumps the democratic control of federal government in the US.
How will restoring States Rights improve that inequality?

First point. Government is not supposed to be more powerful than the private sector nor the People. Second point. Government's primary function is to serve. Not to lead. Not to dominate.
Lastly, your use of the term "inequality" presupposes the notion of a 'mandate' of equality. No such mandate exists.
Your side's consistent throwing about various contexts of "equality" is nothing more than fodder for political expediency.
"Wealth inequality", "Income inequality", "Share of income", "share of wealth"...These are terms used to gin up support for the democrat political base.
They are also used by those who feel entitled to the earnings and wealth of others because it makes them uncomfortable.
Your side attempts to further the idea that excessive taxation will result in the leveling of some imaginary playing field.

Government is the people, and their laws and Constitution are the supreme laws of the land.
The government leads, by following the people's elected representatives to introduce new ideas.
Our history is filled with our attempts to make America even more equal: voting, slavery, women's rights, healthcare, social security, and that battle for more equality continues even on these boards, today, now. True, we don't always do it correctly and some feel hurt by losing their superior positions, but we continue.