Federal government officially offers a jobs guarantee program...to the Taliban
Let's be clear: You and I will not be getting a federal jobs guarantee with a living wage. It's for our own good. We just don't understand that having the safety and the security of a guaranteed job so we can provide for our families is not in our best interests.
The Taliban, on the other hand, are more deserving of a U.S. federal government jobs guarantee program than American workers.
US offers safety, job security for Taliban over Afghanistan peace process
The US is eager to persuade the Taliban to join the peace process in Afghanistan and is offering a safety network that includes job opportunities for the insurgents, a media report said Thursday.
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"Although some members of the Taliban may be weary of fighting and ready to lay down their weapons, they will only rejoin society if they believe their safety and the safety of their families are guaranteed, and if they have an opportunity to earn enough money to provide for their families," the report said, quoting a Pentagon plan sent to Congress this week, along with the proposals for addressing US security concerns and the interests of Afghanistan's neighbours.
Eager to persuade Taliban to join the Afghan peace process, the US is offering them a safety network that includes creating job opportunities for the insurgents, the report said.
I have no problem with giving the Taliban living wage jobs, because the commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan himself admitted that we can't win militarily in Afghanistan.
So giving them jobs would be MUCH cheaper than continuing this war.
My question is: how do American workers get in on this? Is it necessary to join the Taliban, or will any terrorist group satisfy the requirements?
The news media tells us to forget about it.
A 'Federal Jobs Guarantee' Idea Is Costly, Misguided.
Federal work programs can have real downsides.
The Jobs Guarantee Is Absurd.
The Democratic establishment agrees with Republicans when it comes to not granting a jobs guarantee.
Still the government already subsidizes jobs.
Subsidies from state and local governments to attract employers to locate their facilities cost as much as $80 billion a year. I have to say “as much as” because local governments and businesses keep these deals secret. Even though the Governmental Accounting Standards Board requires localities to make such “economic development” deals public, around half of all local governments just don’t comply.But thanks to public filings and the subsidy trackers at Good Jobs First, we know enough to confidently make the $80 billion a year estimate. Wisconsin promised $3 billion to Foxconn for a factory employing around 13,000 people at its peak. Cities and states have offered as much as $8.5 billion to Amazon for its second headquarters, which would house around 50,000 people.
... A report from the Economic Policy Institute on Amazon’s $1.1 billion in known subsidies for “fulfillment center” warehouses found that they do not increase overall private sector employment within a particular county.The $80 billion in economic development subsidies is just the beginning. The Trump tax cuts were sold on the basis of job creation effects. The Republican Congress called the bill the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.”
Then there is the fact that the cost of a job guarantee would be partially offset by reduced demand for benefit programs for the working poor, like food stamps, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
I believe the cost of a jobs guarantee program has nothing to do with establishment opposition.
This is all about control.
TPTB can't control the Taliban, so they negotiate. You and me, OTOH, they can dismiss.
The lesson to be learned here is that if you want something from the TPTB, you must take it by force. They don't respect anything else.
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OT: Why is this "unreasonable"?
It makes perfect sense to me
Do we want peace with North Korea? Or do we want them to unilaterally surrender?
The answers are No and Yes. The 2 Koreas may work this out
but only if the U.S. stays out of the negotiations. Even if the U.S. were to accept the idea of complete nuclear disarmament of the entire peninsula, we'd get hung up on the issue of verification.
Ne3ver mind Trump, can you imagine the congressional whackoos allowing North Korean inspections of our military facilities to make sure there aren't nukes statched away?
chuck utzman
TULSI 2020
@gjohnsit It's not unreasonable,
I agree
I thought that was rather rude and presumptuous of them.
Next thing you know they'll expect us to know something about the people we are at war with.
This is an assault on the bedrock of our identity.
Here's another jobs program
Then there's the White Helmets in Syria who are being paid by us and our allies to create fake rescues while they get away with their terrorist activities that Wendy wrote about including organ removal. Just what are they doing with them? Black market organ donations?
More up to date jobs program
Yup. We're not going to get a jobs program because they want to control us is my guess.
Suck it, Howard Dean.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
They want us stressed and despondent
Look what happened last time Americans felt somewhat secure, in the 60s.
I commented about this yesterday in another thread. It's so much easier to keep us under the thumb when we're in that middle ground between broke-and-desperate-enough-to-rebel and secure-enough-to-challenge-the-power. Most people now are a short margin away from economic disaster. If we weren't spending our time and energy struggling to survive (but not quite nothing-to-lose go-for-broke desperate), many more of us might be out there challenging the corporate power. They have us right in that sweet spot where joining the army looks like job security.
Not to mention getting everyone hooked on hyper-expensive surveillance toys like smartphones. Another whole area of discussion, the self-financed panopticon.
Wow! The comments really handed Dean his ass!
Who knew that there were so many Russians on Twitter?
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
How about the pigs create a guaranteed jobs program
for 'Murica? Oh, that's right. They "can't afford it." If that's the case, then we can't afford them.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.