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This may sound simplistic, but if I don't have money to pay my own bills, I don't give money to friends. So...why are we giving out so much money to other countries? That should be shut down. The next thing I would do is straighten out our trading deficit, if we are buying things from China, they need to buy stuff from us. Otherwise, it is time to tax that stuff up to the hilt, to make it worthwhile for companies to produce things here.
The next thing I would do, is start a jobs program for students in high school and college, and make a mandatory draft again, but this time, it would be for two years, doing public works in the United States, working on projects that need to be done for the infra-structure. This would benefit younger people who can't find jobs now. This same project could be for people who want jobs, but can't find anything, and would pay a basic wage, plus food benefits, and health care.
And enforce immigration laws. We have those laws and quotas for a reason...
The US really doesn't give other countries money for no reason. There are political and strategic military reasons for example, missile defense, air bases, etc. There's also humanitarian reasons.
All these "programs", with what money? The government is laying off as it is, employees with real value added services. The last thing the government has money for is "make work".
I would levy a HUGE tax on any company that ships jobs overseas. And I'd also remember protectionism and institute it again. And I'd end the damn wars and close down several bases. I'd spend what resources we have here at home. I'd give incentives or tax breaks to anyone who hires the unemployed and ESPECIALLY the long term unemployed. I'd provide free training to anyone who needs it to AT LEAST get some skills to get back into the market (I'm not talking college degrees here).
This. And raise it up to making it illegal to ship jobs overseas.
This has to be based on actual powers he has AND this is not for political bashing!
How would you put 15 MILLION Americans back to work? How about the millions more that are under-employed?
For the purposes of this thread, assume you are President and represent whatever party you belong (or dont) too and that the current Congress is what you would have to work with.
Does the President even have that kind of power?
Guide this country back to a capitalist/free enterprise system instead of a fascist/socialist one.
Get rid of all the immigrants in the high-tech fields. Those fields are overrun with chinese, Indian, etc, while competent, highly-trained Americans are laid off and taking survival jobs in fast food, etc.
shouldn't it be the other way around? shouldn't the immigrants start at the bottom, mopping floors, fast food etc?
Instead we lay off our own to make way for other countries "talent". Oh, ut there aren't any American workers competent to take those jobs, we have to go overseas. Hmmm......then why are people like my dh laid off with 25+ years experience, now working 3 menial jobs and making 1/2 half what he used to make as a computer designer? Oh, BTW, he spoke English, he could communicate with his peers. Now its a tower of Babel, and, like the tower of Babel, coming down. Slowly, the high tech firms are starting to realize that laying off the English-speaking Americans in favor of the cheaper Chinese, Indian, etc, wasn't such a good long term decision!
In my opinion, solving our social dilemmas through Commerce should always be preferred to the coercive use of force of the State.
What would be wrong with faithfully executing our state at-will employment laws and a federal doctrine to that effect; as a form of providing recourse to US labor to get an education until employers clamor for a relationship, learn a new vocation to potentially engage in forms of entrepreneurship, or simply pursue Happiness while clamoring to enjoy the bliss of the general prosperity through lower taxes?
Factory labor is cheap in China, where monthly wages average less than $300. That compares to a statewide average of more than $5,400 a month for Massachusetts factory workers.
I just don't see companies bring back manufacturing jobs where they have to employ large numbers of people. If it could be almost entirely automated, I can see that, but too much labor, i think they are going to keep going overseas.
Ideally and unrealistically, when companies send American jobs overseas, they get taxed heavily for it. Stop the importation of cheap non-American labor here.
It'll never happen because we are the United Corporation of the States and the elite rule.
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