Reply #8: "Jobs For All" site ... new WPA [View All]

[billlll]

R Reich an advisor to site

http://www.njfac.org

PS. Sweden kept unemp below 2% for decades

Until the RW lied its way into power in the '90's.

Low unemp was "cornerstone of the welfare state". (Welfare there meant "welbeing" not poverty)

Employ up,
Wages then go up (due...folks no longer afraid to strike for decent wages. "Unemployment keeps wages low because folks are afraid to strike"---ancient LW basic slogan -- memorize it. You will not hear it on CNN but it is how the REAL dynamics of our economy proceed)

Learn from Sweden.
"Low unemployment was the cornerstone of the Wel(being) (aka Welfare) State."

The CORNERSTONE.

Reich and M Moore have called for a WPA now.


From jfa site....

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Message to Congress, 1944 

THE ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS

This republic had its beginning and grew to its present strength under the protection of certain inalienable political rights...They were our rights to life and liberty. As our nation has grown in size and stature, however--as our industrial economy expanded--these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness. 

    We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.... People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all--regardless of station, race, or creed. .....
More at the JFA site---

www.njfac.org