When this constituency gets large enough a politician
will cater to it. And the nice thing about elr/jg
is that the constituency for it would be much larger,
including those employed without benefits, part
timers, low wage earners in general, those a step or
two up the ladder afraid of the possibility of falling
off, businesses looking to hire (when there are
any...) etc.
warren
--- "Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The unemployed and the underemploy ought to start a
right to work union
to protect their civil rights, to weed out fraud and
to pressure
government to adopt policies. There are between 10
to 15 million
officially unemployed and another 10 million who
have given up looking,
or those forced into early retirement at 50. Plus
another 20 to 50
million under-employed. It would be a powerful lobby
with enough swing
votes in swing states. For starter, how about a
negative income tax in
the current tax package? Or a tax rebate, not just a
limited time income
averaging, but a tax rebate equal to say 70% of your
previous high
income before unemployment. If you made $100K last
year and paid $30k in
taxes, you get back $70K this year if you are
unemployed. Unemployment
ought to be made to hurt the system than than it
does the individual,
then you will be surprised how fast Congress will
eliminated unemployment.
Henry C.K. Liu
Kathy in the Rocky Mountains wrote:
I recently went to a Job Fair (first time for me)
and almost all of the
"employers" where scamming or selling something to
the out-of-work and
somewhat desparate job seekers. The only honest
employer that had
something to offer was the Army. They offered
careers, salaries,
training and education, etc. Qualified people
(young, healthy,
intelligent) could get career positions through
this employer. This was
in stark contrast to the one who never indicated
that I would pay them
5K or more for them to help me do the work of
finding a job ... Or the
various commisioned sales jobs ... Or the truck
driver job that really
was selling expensive training in a field that is
glutted and with
future on-the-job restrictions that mean few would
be reimbursed for
their training.
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