Posted on 04/29/2014 12:47:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Raúl Carrillo '15 is a J.D. student at Columbia Law School. He earned a B.A. in Social Studies at Harvard College, where he wrote a column on American politics for The Harvard Crimson. He subsequently worked as a staffer for California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, assisting with the 2012 multi-state mortgage fraud settlement. In the summer of 2013, he interned at the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York City.
The federal government can easily afford a job guarantee program …Of course, because money that is printed always has value no matter what.
According to legal scholar Cass Sunstein …That’s some nuclear stupid, right there.
They don't have to now. People freely choose to go to these outlets - because they provide goods at excellent prices and/or at excellent speed.
If Government is given monopoly power over the means of production you get a totalitarian state. You get Nazi Germany. You get the USSR. You get Mao's China.
Carillo wants this because he is a budding fascist.
Sure it does. Grab a shovel, Raul.
*facepalm*
I’m thinking if we could pay people to actually work, it would be cheaper and more humane than the way our social safety is currently administered.
We have to ask ourselves if government dependency is a good thing and if not how to begin changing it.
Another entitlement program is not the answer.
he doesn’t realize that the people who he most would align with wouldn’t even work if given a job, and would never vote for a politician who supported it.
I actually agree with the guy
If people want to work, yhey shoudl be able to work
Cass is a communist pig
And they could work, if the government would just get out of the way. As in the Keystone Pipeline, for instance.
People who live off the Gov should not be allowed to vote. Including SS and Gov workers, with the exception of land owners.
A Job Guarantee is justice?
Scary, perverted language.
I completely agree with you.
That's some real deep, deep thought there, Raul.
It's the kind of simplistic drivel that socialists the world over cling to - having 'no dollars' forces you to steal to get them, or with GOVERNMENT giving you a job you don't have to steal (we won't talk about how government STEALS the dollars to give to you for a job that has no merit).
But even giving the concession in this quote you might have to 'earn' them, you immediately launch off to JOBS GUARANTEE, or 'JG' you constantly cite thereafter as the panacea for every ill that besets us. Yes, JOBS earn you money. However the kind of jobs you're thinking of are really nothing more than sinecures - government jobs, more specifically government-funded jobs.
Future lawyers like Carrillo are what this country is producing in its liberal institutions. They are being trained to trample our rights; subvert our laws, misuse them and create new ones in which there is no Constitutional basis.
Raul also makes the idiotic argument that starts “In the richest country in the world....” Hey progressives, guess what? There are things even the richest country in the world cannot afford. Being richest is not the same as having infinite resources.
This idea of government as employer of last resort has gotten traction over the last year or so in mainstream media, as if it has never been tried before and is elegantly simple. Read a history books some time, will ya!
We ought to put our focus back on the Lord here.
The Lord made, and makes, astounding promises. Believing them opens the door for blessings.
I spent a brief period in the belly of the beast. It was frustrating. I bucked the system so hard to try to get something done, even within the context of the pencil pushing, that I got kicked out of the “job.”
Anyhow, even “make work” is better than nothing when it is something good and useful that is made. But the free market is the stellar place for work to occur, because something that isn’t good and useful won’t be rewarded for long. America used to be prized for its opportunity and now the same America is despised.
For some strange reason, the phrase “Arbeit Macht Frei” immediately comes to mind.
And also how did it get to be richest. The liberals speak as though it was by “robbing the poor.” Hello. Who has the richest poor in he world?
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