WE ALL HAVE A JOB TO DO
So in a time of instantaneous communication, plus a public spirited citizenry, plus a great deal of creative intelligence, plus a desperate need to generate jobs: if there were ever a time for a coordinated effort to generate new ideas for job creation it is surely now.
Here are some ideas to get the ball rolling:
- The President should appoint a job czar whose first task is to call for the equivalent of the Manhatten Project to generate meaningful jobs... which probably would include training and what ever else it takes to implement such a program.
- If the governement dilly dallies then we need a grass roots call for such action.
- Perhaps some foundation such as The Gates Foundation, or IBM, or a consortium of such large organizations can begin the ball rolling...
- In the meantime - there is a pressing need for intelligent ideas.
- In this connection I invite interested parties to list with brief explanations you ideas for meaningful job creation.
- It is not enough to passively bitch, moan and groan - this is a time to act.
- The following are a few ideas I have:
Meaningful Job Creation Ideas:
- There is an urgent need to formulate a nation wide (the wolrd included in my scheme) implementation of therapeutic communities treating substance abusers. I know they work - the evidence is overwhelming. They are cost effective, humane, and would generate thousands of positions for mental health workers, grand parents acting as mentors, teachers and trainers etc.
- There is an urgent need for thousands upon thousands of home care givers to take up the slack of an accelerating older population to say nothing of the thousands of disabled vets returning from the war front who are woefully lacking essential care.
These are only two sound ideas. There are probably thousands more. I urge all of you to respond... and if you have no ideas that come to mind then ask a few of your friends and see if they have some.
This is a call to action..... The times demand action .... Technology makes it possible to do so in relatively short order.
It is a fact that newspapers respond to letters to the editor. So come on folks take a moment, channel your passion into a few key strokes, and respond to my queery.
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Comments: 31
Conservatives want the past. Oil is so 1970s. Government helped Big Oil get on its feet back when in the 20s (when conservatives were against it). Time to help what's next.
Increased productivity comes from technology, not cheap hand labor.
So yes, we need more robotics, and automation and people to design them, maintain very sophisticated systems.
More post high school education, not less, and accepting the idea that all of us will be going back for training several times over a worklife.
If industry won't support these schools, taxes must.
Our very consolidated industries are not the tiniest bit interested in promoting a healthy job market for citizens. They want cheap uneducated labor for menial work, and they will import technology workers from abroad.
I have no idea how to convince our voting against their own self interests, "conservatiave" teabag protesters to understand why our economy is in the pits.
Some of them say it is "God's will"
And all caused by the anit-christ President Obama.
I don't know why people think jail is cheaper than treatment and education.
Its government policies and the dread of more of them that is the problem now. Health care alone will cost businesses billions in additional costs, never mind cap and trade. Those and the promised uptick in dividend taxes are just more missiles that the government keeps tossing at the fragile balloon of the national economy.
Why are we subsidizing oil producers,
Why are we subsidizing huge corporate farms.
ok. There are others, name some.
I do agree on the things you mention but remember-the oil/farm subsidies are there as a result of government meddling in the economy. The subsidizies were emplaced to offset taxes and regulations that harmed indie types.
The non-employable poor have been on SSI and Medicad for decades, no change there except a possiblilty for better care.
Two parents working at a minimum wage no insurance job cannot buy health insurance. You know that and that is what this is about.
Illegal immigrants are excluded from buying coverage, this is now going to continue to be a costly item for emergency rooms. Why don't we propose a law that the employers of illegal immigrants be billed or their care?
The term illegal immigrant light explain why they shouldn't be allowed to get these heavily subsidized plans being floated right now. Key word being illegal, if Congress did not mandate hospitals treat everyone in an emergency room to begin with, a) you wouldn't have costs shifted onto anyone with insurance thus kicking that vicious spiral into gear and b) encouraging illegals to stay here. Blaming employers for not verifying citizenship of employees is giving the government a free pass not to do its duties of maintaining the borders.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3962:
Employers can insure their undocumented workers, some actually do now, and undocumented aliens can buy insurance, but they cannot be subsidized with tax funds.
This post is about JOBS
Tell Gibbs your ideas on JOBS
When an individual begins
There are city, county, state and federal rules on environment, and employees.
The problem is that there is no "check list" and each start-up must trek around from department to department to comply with the rules, some of which are conflicting.
Why can't there be a check list of all the applicable regulations for all the different types of businesses.
So if an individual or groupwants to start up a food production operation.
They will know what the rules are, not be cited and fined for something that was missed when the business started.
Locally we recently had a silk screening business temporarily shut down because of garment industry employee rules that this small businessman, and not even the county or state regulators, were aware of.
Insane.
I am not opposed to the regulations that protect our enviornment and protect employees.
But they must be made to work for us, not against us.
Tax policies and various business/environmental regs need to be looked at, as you noted they often-increasingly so work against job creation. It is funny to see how tax policies work here locally, a city passes a job tax or higher sales tax and business flows to another location. Think of Chicago when it tried to tax Wal Mart at a different rate a couple of years ago, the stores simply moved outside of the jurisdiction. Maryland did the same too with the same result.
A list in of itself is a good idea but as a nation, we are making increasingly hard to start businesses. No one can just start a business anymore, some places require certificates of need (hospitals for example).
A major hitch in hiring/expansion right now is the uncertainty concerning Washington. Cap and trade, health care and its accompanying taxes, card check, all are things checking any urge for many to even think about expanding.
And how about for current workers, why does overtime get taxed at a higher rate than normal? Drop that, why should anyone wanting to work more than 40 hrs a week pay progressively higher taxes.
You put your finger on the main problem, government itself. Unless actively pruned, it expands. Appointing another federal overlord to add to it or make pronouncements we need to do something is just a waste of money. We need an administration that is serious about getting government out of the way, billions to create a handful of jobs only highlights that problem.
gibbs williams Nov 8, 2009, 1:00pm EST
Charles - There you go no where. If you bother to read all of what I said instead of getting blinded by the bad word "governement" you will see that I also call upon everyone - you included - to add your constructive ideas for generating meaningful job creation. I don't care for who does it only that some responsible people do it. Any ideas?????????????????????????????????
social investment plan
He listed his ideas where are yours.
Something is not always better than nothing. Sometimes it's worse: If it's the wrong something.
Secretary Hilda L. Solis
http://www.dol.gov
We can send our suggestions to President Obama, Our Senators, our U. S. Reps.
And to the Secretary of Labor.
I looked just for fun, Van Jones was the Green Jobs Czar, slaughtered by Faux News.
If we revolutionize our own energy supply, then we solve so many problems. We have the technical and technological skill. We have the manpower. We could make this happen, but so many are satisfied with the status quo.