Civil Right to Work. Review of Trade Policy

["John Gelles" <johng@xxxxxxxxxx>]

    It is nice to read from Henry Liu, Warren Mosler and
    others, that the unalienable right to a decent job at fair
    wages is protected by  America's founding documents
    including its Constitution.

    That was the theme I started with nearly a decade ago
    when I first wrote to PKT. At the time, my insistence
    on the civil and constitutions right to work,
                       www.1944.org/crtw-a.htm   ,
    was seconded by Trond Andresen (who mentioned
    that Norway had a law to the same effect) and by
    James Galbraith as to its spirit at least.

    Now we see looming a trade war and even so nasty
    a thing as a leaked "nuclear posture" that indicates the
    cost to civilization of our failure to have both the right
    to work and the money system to support it (and all
    other priority needs of democratic nations.)

    If America thinks its money comes only from people
    shopping the mall and flying to Las Vegas, which is
    what some of today's speeches imply, then there is no
    hope for developing the unalienable human rights we
    have promised to future generations of civilized people.

    We must have the right to work. We must have the
    freedom that can only come when people are free to
    save so that their governments may be free to spend.

    Gov'ts must be free to spend to help one another to
    reach a civilized state where poverty and terror, the
    threat of mutually assured destruction, and global
    warming, etc., can all be reduced and finally
    dispensed with, as people are free to produce and
    save sound money no longer so scarce it makes
    grown men mad.

        John Gelles