tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post5350784863406514351..comments2024-03-27T11:18:34.222-03:00Comments on Viable Opposition: Solving America's Long-term Unemployment ConundrumA Political Junkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342345936277964422noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-9820458285765762522012-08-04T03:09:17.451-03:002012-08-04T03:09:17.451-03:00Demand is driven by money in people's pockets....Demand is driven by money in people's pockets. Let's put it there. At this point I'm not sure I care what jobs these long term unemployed do. I say it hardly matters in the short and maybe the medium term. We can harangue ourselves endlessly about the debt and the relatively worth of worker skills. We can fixate endlessly on taxes and regulation. We can turn all this into the endless moral plays of carrots and sticks. These are all side shows. So let's forget about all that for another day! It's a national disgrace that we are letting people die on the unemployment vine. Put them to work building anything at all, anything. And yes in the short run that's a government program. It almost makes one pine for the days of Tojo and Hitler. ALMOST.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-43870429777537383952012-08-03T15:07:11.622-03:002012-08-03T15:07:11.622-03:00(How many Anons does it take to make a point? No-o...(How many Anons does it take to make a point? No-one knows. <br /><br />C'mon fellas, show yourselves!)<br /><br />There is another social policy reason to get people back to work; if people are not engaged and have no stake in the economy, it fosters poor attitudes to society as a whole.So sue mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02329062028532928077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-17141436286481784692012-08-03T12:10:56.904-03:002012-08-03T12:10:56.904-03:00One word - INFRASTRUCTURE.
Reduce the profits on ...One word - INFRASTRUCTURE. <br />Reduce the profits on fed bonds, (they mostly fatten fat wallets), and "quantitatively ease" unemployment by using those funds to invest in a valuable commodity, (infrastructure), rather than dishing it out to the nearly non-productive money hoarding, workforce dependent class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-34294069631801975742012-08-03T11:32:25.537-03:002012-08-03T11:32:25.537-03:00This recession brought on by world debt and bankst...This recession brought on by world debt and banksters is deep and multifacited. It would not matter what group was in power, the same things would have happened.<br /><br />Solutions are not easy as they have to be multidimensional and multifacited. A hard sell for a public looking for a simple solution and a single hero to rescue the world economy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-24400573750651370422012-08-03T10:58:58.173-03:002012-08-03T10:58:58.173-03:00I disagree with Anonymous @ 10:45AM,
Business Inc...I disagree with Anonymous @ 10:45AM,<br /><br />Business Incentives tend to only be a job creator for corporate legal departments and accounting departments...<br /><br />...They tend to do very little for the economic productivity of the organization as a whole. It's a return to the tax code simplification argument talked on this forum previously. (Is a high tax rate with several deductions/loop-holes better, or a lower tax rate with no deductions/loo-holes ->assuming revenue neutrality?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-57757502392523147042012-08-03T10:53:30.566-03:002012-08-03T10:53:30.566-03:00Amen to that Anonymous @ 9:24AM!Amen to that Anonymous @ 9:24AM!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-60361928953906960462012-08-03T10:45:52.863-03:002012-08-03T10:45:52.863-03:00The opposite is true. Give more business incentive...The opposite is true. Give more business incentive to corporations and they will continue to outsouce jobs overseas to maximize profits since the labor costs are so much less.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-68626649468796620942012-08-03T09:24:54.510-03:002012-08-03T09:24:54.510-03:00"What can be done to help the long-term unemp..."What can be done to help the long-term unemployed?"<br /><br />Your five points misses the most important one. Get government out of the way and let private business grow the economy in a real way. Yes, Obama, we did build that. It is because you don't understand that that we are in this mess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com