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# 9. Jobs for All Americans

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Dec 082011

Jobs for All Americans. Passage of a comprehensive jobs and job-training act like the American Jobs Act to employ our citizens in jobs that are available with specialized re-training through partnerships between companies seeking employees and community colleges and other educational institutions. The American People must be put to work now by repairing America’s crumbling infrastructure and building other needed public works projects. These jobs should not be outsourced with cheap foreign labor or using foreign building materials. In conjunction with a new jobs act, re-institution of the Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps and similar emergency governmental agencies tasked with creating new projects to provide jobs for the families of the 151 million People living in poverty and low income homes. Astonishingly, one in four children are living in poverty in the United States while 8.3% of American adults are unemployed and 16% are underemployed. Many others have simply given up looking for work. Special tax incentives should be granted to companies who partner with educational institutions to re-train workers to work in green energy and new sources of American manufacturing to reduce reliance on imported goods and services. A democracy simply cannot survive with more than half of its population struggling to acquire basic needs such as food, shelter, education and health care, a shrinking middle class and a tiny fraction of the population controlling the media and the political process. This is a dangerous convergence of circumstances.

The Second Bill Of Right

“In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

America’s own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens.”

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Second Bill of Rights, January 11, 1944.

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### 21 Responses to “9. Jobs for All Americans”

1. Archetype777 says:
   2012/01/28 at 8:08 am

   This job equality act will become null & void if we do not repeal President Clinton’s “at will employment act”, which gives any employer the power to fire any employee without reason or notification.

   If a man accused of committing a crime is given the opportunity to face his accusers and defend his position, then a honest, hard-working, tax-paying, contributing member of society should have at least the same right; be given not only an explanation for his termination, but the opportunity to address his employers grievance to avoid termination.

   Corporations have been given too much freedom at the expense of the American worker. They have had their fun, now it’s time to return the favor!

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2. DParsons says:
   2012/01/27 at 7:29 pm

   I would like to suggest the halting of the exportation of raw timber and reopening our lumber mills! The amount of raw timber that is exported from Longview, WA alone, per day is staggering!

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3. theseer1 says:
   2012/01/22 at 11:35 am

   Abolish The Credit Reporting Agencies i.e. Equifax, Experian, Trans Union, etc. as incompetent and detrimental to the General Welfare, and National Security, of the American Economy(by decree grievance#5,8,and9), by lack of Competency, accuracy and fair play to the lively hood of American Citizens to gain rightful employment, and basic human consumption, in a Capitalistic Society. Violating The Constitutional right of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”. Credit reporting to be delegated to The State or State’s of Domicile by the individuals as decreed. Individual States have full power of regulation and Autonomy but, as addressed by a non-partisan regulatory advisory oversee committee at the Federal Level such as The F.T.C. Enact Laws to criminalize any unauthorized collection of information by private corporations or individuals, holding the corporate hierarchy accountable, without written explicit consent of subject, thus violating the right of privacy deemed by The Bill Of Rights and/ or Constitution.

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   - KrisLewis63 says:
     2012/01/22 at 1:52 pm

     “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” is not a Constitutional right. That’s in the Declaration of Independence. Don’t misunderstand, I agree. Other things need fixed, too, like divorce & child support.

     My concern with this item (Jobs for All), is where does the money come from? None of this training will be free. Someone has to pay the wages of those so employed.

     I agree with the concept. The details need thought out.

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     - theseer1 says:
       2012/01/22 at 3:05 pm

       Thanks for the correction, I was’nt sure but I know it’s in the founding father’s writting’s. Thanks again

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     - bchristie says:
       2012/01/23 at 12:31 pm

       The money comes from converting the Fed into an actual government agency tasked with the issuance of credit-money rather than “lending” the government phantom money and taking in notes (government debt). The money, if it is issued by the government rather than the private Federal Reserve, is a credit to be spent as policy might dictate, such as funding employment in the field of converting to green energy. Think of all the jobs to be generated by a program to 1) insulate existing houses; 2) retrofit homes with photo-voltaic electricity generation; 3) install thermoelectric systems to provide home heating; 4) etc. All these things and more could be the new form of “works progress” programs to jump start a green economy with real jobs that have a real purpose of living with nature instead of against nature while possibly staving off the worst impacts of an otherwise accelerating climate change.

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   - Archetype777 says:
     2012/01/28 at 8:13 am

     Absolutely!!!! Perhaps this amendment would fit more concisely with the debt reduction grievance, either way, YES financial equality will not be made if we still rely on a biased system for determining who is “credit worthy”

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4. foolsfolly says:
   2012/01/19 at 3:10 am

   In addition to a Jobs Bill, we need to make it easier for individuals and small groups to start small businesses. Make it easier to get low interest loans. Provide education and support. More small businesses means less people beholden to large corporations.

   shalom v’ahava,
   Menachem

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5. reddog says:
   2011/12/29 at 10:33 pm

   We are in the ‘beginning of the end’ of the world and country as we have known them. We are now entering the era of sustainability,… whether we like it or not.
   Now might be an appropriate time to consider the makeup of Future World. For instance, manufacturing will drop to recycle and replace.
   This may involve 40% of the working population.

   Service jobs are the only thing that then provides for the rest of employment unless we figure out another redistribution of wealth scheme that at the moment is beyond me.
   I could see 60% of the population employed in education, entertainment, information.

   The problem is; what can we do that doesn’t involve ‘growth’?

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   - Archetype777 says:
     2012/01/28 at 8:18 am

     Growth, like evolution, is inevitable. It’s how we came down out the trees and started standing upright, to evolve into what we are today. We cannot stop growth, we can direct and dictate it. Yes we need to increase our recycling efforts, but those material will still be used in manufacturing. Manufacturing can be sustainable, it all depends on how it is done and for what purpose.

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6. danieclarke says:
   2011/12/24 at 6:36 pm

   Veterans joined to serve our country. They deserve to be able to continue serving anywhere in the USA. This can be done by offering a certain number of service jobs such as working parks and recreation etc in cities and towns all over the USA. If one veteran moves to a town and there is a empty position that veteran should get that job. Otherwise it should be filled by another veteran. When i got out of the USMC in 1974 i was offered a C.E.T.A. = comprehensive employement training act job working parks and recreation in N. Calif. I also did solid waste when a burning dump was closed i watched a new container site. There i started a recycling center as i collected bottles and cans in old used trash cans people wanted to dispose. However, my job ended after an 18 month funding. That was the last time i worked a regular job. From that time on i became a volunteer at other people farms / properties for a place to stay. I was basically homeless. I would have much rather worked as a service member to any community. Veterans are not your regular workers. They need to serve somewhere. they need to be guaranteed a job in some form in towns and cities all over the USA. That will help them to feel like contributing members of society. if they decide and can fit into the regular working world so be it. However, a veteran never should be left floating around wondering what they can do. It probably cost the goverment and tax payers even more having to deal with veterans depressions than it would if they had just had a list of job opening in cities and towns across the country. Please help our veterans so they don’t have to wonder the streets begging people for work and a place to stay.

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7. Nathan D says:
   2011/12/19 at 2:01 am

   We have a structural problem with our economy and how we divide things between public and private.

   All wealth is created by applying labor to natural resources. Natural resources include land, minerals, water, air, the radio spectrum, etc… Labor is the mental and physical work that humans (and now machines) apply to natural resources to turn them into something useful like food, clothing, cars, or houses.

   When a few individuals, or a few large corporations, control all our natural resources, then people do not have anything on which to apply their labor. As a result they cannot work unless they first agree to pay the monopolizers whatever the monopolizers want. Generally this means we pay our employers for the privilege of working. A portion of the wealth we create through our labor goes to our employers instead of us. The end result is that a few people who own most of the employees have lots of wealth and the rest of us don’t have enough to buy all the goods our labor has produced.

   To fix this problem, we need to return ownership of all natural resources back to the public domain and require everyone who wants to exclude others from some portion of the commons to pay full market rent for that privilege. That way, the factors of monopoly will go into the public coffers which will benefit everyone, instead into the hands of a few.

   I don’t know if this change will provide employment for everyone, but the public coffers should be overflowing from all the monopolistic privileges going to the government instead of a few private citizens (or even non-citizen foreigners). If the government equally spreads the excess amongst all citizens, regardless of age, income, gender, etc… There will be plenty of money to increase demand for goods and services, which will increase employment. And if everyone is not fully employed, the national dividend may help them pay for food, clothing, and other necessities, allowing shorter work weeks while still maintaining a good and increasing standard of living.

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   - Adamd says:
     2012/01/24 at 4:07 am

     Your idea is right in line with my thinking. But looking around at most Americans, we aren’t ready for this. Although I believe it is the only way that we can survive in the long run. This age of exploitation will have to stop and the day of managing will have to begin if we are to survive as a species.

     There really is so much to say about this, and so much change that would have to occur, that we would need a book to detail everything out.

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8. Jean Netherton says:
   2011/12/18 at 3:14 pm

   we could also combine 9 Jobs for All Americans & 14 End Outsourcing

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   - zarepheth says:
     2011/12/20 at 7:39 pm

     I agree that they could be combined.

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9. Jean Netherton says:
   2011/12/18 at 1:19 pm

   Toss in a temporary lowering of the voluntary retirement age to 55 or 60, to remove thousands from the workforce and open up jobs, and to remove thousands from the UI dole.

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10. Johnny Pianka says:
    2011/12/17 at 5:15 pm

    i propose a video game like employment system where you are paid based on your level of expertise, time, efficiency, and production at your certain job. as you level up you get paid more. jobs should be paid according to their contribution to american society (ie making life more pleasant to live) there are many many things that need to be done we can fund infrastructure projects everywhere needed we can fund home, city, state improvement projects everywhere jobs can be posted based upon these needs and the funding can be linked to a certain amount of required local employment including training for those areas that dont have adequate labor force. i also believe that everyone who is able should be required to work and only those who cannot work will recieve welfare benefits without the requirement to work. as far as living wage is concerned there is a way to calculate what one person minimally needs to survive in a humane way. that calculation should be done and then multiplied accordingly to figure out just how much it would cost for the nation and include it in the national budget as our welfare system and again tie it to the requirement to work. noone can tell me that there isnt plenty of work to do in this nation that could emply everyone.

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    - smlgjohn says:
      2011/12/24 at 1:22 am

      i also think that all companies in the usa should have an employee ownership program that lets them share in the profits of the company and vote to replace the board

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11. Gambit says:
    2011/12/17 at 8:45 am

    It may be time to shorten what is considered full time work. 40 hours a week may be too much. The manufacturing jobs that were “lost” due to automation are not coming back. People will not be doing what machines now do. The service jobs are starting to go now too, they are being “lost” due to self-service kiosks and technology. When they go, those jobs will not be coming back either. We have to shift our paradigm about work in this country. It needs to be about what you are contributing, and not just whether or not you are putting in some face time or keeping a chair warm. The jobs that have gone overseas are probably not coming back either – and if they do, it just shifts the unemployment problem to another location. In a global economy, this won’t really help matters. So, you’ve got an ever growing population clamoring for an ever shrinking number of jobs. This would also stop corporations from overworking their employees so they don’t have to hire an adequate number of people.

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    - WASanford says:
      2011/12/17 at 11:30 am

      Gambit is right, it’s time to readjust the work week. We have 14 million more workers than we actually need or can provide jobs for. The so-called “Job creators” just don’t seem to be at all interested in them. Reducing the work week from 40 to 32 hours should take care of a 25% unemployment problem, which is close to our actual unemployment. Higher wages would be necessary for workers to be able to maintain their standard of living.

      Another way to reduce unemployment would be to make college or trade school mandatory educational requirements,that would delay entry into and shorten the time a worker spends in the labor pool. Keeping the draft after WWII was a brilliant strategy Truman used to keep America working.

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12. GlennZ says:
    2011/12/13 at 6:26 am

    We need to establish a living wage and make sure the jobs created ARE NOT MINIMUM WAGE JOBS – living wage jobs will be paid for by a fairer and more broad tax structure. The 3rd and 4th generation Welfare recipients need to become gainfully employed, learn skills that will set this country towards a successful path for the 22 CENTURY – forget about the 21st Century – we are too far behind the eight-ball to make a dent…

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