Posted on 07/27/2018 11:05:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats seem to agree: A job guarantee will be part of the 2020 election debate. What they don't yet agree on is what a "job guarantee" is.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is working on a full blown national bill to enshrine the right to a job. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has a bill that would essentially run a test pilot of Sanders' program. The Congressional Full Employment Caucus has been pushing yet another national job guarantee bill, with some differences from Sanders' plan, for years. Finally, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) just introduced his own bill, which would subsidize more private and public hiring alike.
The Democrats are a big diverse party, and they'll have to negotiate a lot of different preferences and approaches to ultimately unite behind such an ambitious idea. But as they come to an agreement around one shared definition of a job guarantee, the Democrats also need to understand the choices they make along the way — and their consequences.
Sanders sounds like he's working on a genuine guarantee: A government-run national system that, if you're unemployed and want work, will consult with your community to design a job for you that pays $15 an hour, plus health benefits. This would eradicate involuntary unemployment, and set a quality floor that no job — public or private — could fall below without simply losing work to the job guarantee program. That's especially important to people of color and other marginalized Americans, usually shoved to the fringes of employment: They're the last to benefit from business cycle upswings in private hiring, and the first to get tossed aside in downturns....
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“Should Democrats play it safe with a job guarantee?”
Playing it safe?? This is hardly a proposal that is likely to be popular with most Americans, especially at a time of statistically full employment. Another monstrously large and expensive bureauocracy whose sole and obvious purpose is to kiss up to RAT voters who don’t want jobs anyway. Yeah, this is a sure winner.
They are going to need a bigger rubber room. Like the one that they use for NY teachers who cannot be fired.
Can I poke a hole in that?
These employees will be unfireable. How do you fire someone from a guaranteed job?
The salary from the guaranteed job will be higher than welfare.
The DEMS are selling guaranteed jobs as a back door to increasing welfare.
You put a guy on a road crew and he leans on his shovel and playing with his phone all day. What do you do?
I guess we got him off the couch, but not much else, except adding to the deficit and debt.
You don't. You withhold their salary, or whatever part they didn't "earn."
The salary from the guaranteed job will be higher than welfare.
That will be true unless the pay level is strictly defined by the legislation.
The DEMS are selling guaranteed jobs as a back door to increasing welfare.
Of course they are. Everything libs do is a lie, and it's all geared toward taking from productive people and rewarding unproductive parasites. But with welfare, society doesn't get ANYTHING back. At least this way, the leeches are required to do something to earn their keep.
I haven’t paid them a thin dime in over two years.
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