Sanders to announce proposal promising jobs to all Americans
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is set to announce a federal jobs proposal that would guarantee a job with at least a $15-per-hour wage and health benefits to every adult American “who wants or needs one,” The Washington Post reports.
The senator is still in the early stages of crafting the plan, according to the Post, which would provide a job or required training for any American.
Sanders’s office has yet to release the details of the plan’s funding, but previous large-scale projects proposed by the Vermont progressive have involved ending tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and large corporations.
“The goal is to eliminate working poverty and involuntary unemployment altogether,” Darrick Hamilton, an economist at The New School, told the Post.
“This is an opportunity for something transformative, beyond the tinkering we’ve been doing for the last 40 years, where all the productivity gains have gone to the elite of society.”
Critics of federal jobs proposals say that government intervention to raise wages could lead to private businesses cutting costs in other areas, including hiring fewer employees. Sanders is a longtime advocate of “Fight for 15,” the national movement aimed at raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
The proposal would have trouble gaining enough Democratic support to get real traction and conservatives have long said a jobs promise is unsustainable and unaffordable, citing costs, the effects on the private sector and the possibility of inflation.
“It completely undercuts a lot of industries and companies,” Brian Riedl of the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute told the Post. “There will be pressure to introduce a higher wage or certain benefits that the private sector doesn’t offer.”
Sanders has not announced a 2020 presidential run but has left his options open. He was notably the country’s most popular active politician in a Harvard-Harris poll last year.
The Vermont senator will be 79 years old on Election Day in 2020, four years after losing to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary.
$15 an hour minimum wage mandate with a loaf of bread costing $15.00. Can’t beat that, John
What rocks do these dumbfucks crawl out from under? Absolutely ridiculous.
The newest deceit to undermine- or, more succinctly- continue in undermining the US Financial sector, through concealed application of status quo, is called, “Modern Monetary Theory- MMT”.
MMT is linked to English perfidy through Sir Andrew Wood, Charles Steele, the urine doctrine and a number of what are likely David Brock liberal start-ups- most notably a Face Book contrivance called, “Real Progressives”.
MMT is simply a poor plagiarism of Keynesian Economics and they didn’t even get that right. The deceivers take their cue from Bernball’s economic adviser Stephanie Kelton and their chief messiah a – get this- former banker, named Mosler. Their first faux-pas economist is called “Winningham”; a stooge of the highest order, with zero understanding or, perhaps better- a false delivery of American History.
The MMT Cult- and I am the one that named them- is dangerous and really deserving of ridicule; beyond that, deportation.
There truly are over 1200 trillions counterfeit and described as owing to “Mortgage-Backed Securities”, with zero legitimate “securities” in them- the mortgages are poor copies and being used by James Comey banks, like HSBC, to launder drug and terror cartel money.
The enemy is Angle-Land and the Swiss and English-based central banking SCAM… Bernball’s new scheme, I am sad to say, as I supported him, is to use the Jobs Program to conceal further, European imposter, parasitic criminal interference, through MMT, into US Finance.
~ Michael Keane 4/24/18
The gov at work, on a side note from my weather page :Scientists confirm Uranus smells like rotten eggs”. Just maybe they will learn to keep their nose out of my butt.
at least a $15-per-hour wage and health benefits to every adult American “who wants or needs one,”
Isn’t this what the TSA is for? Who wants or needs – WTF – you mean they get a chance to decline?
Problem is too many useless people. I’d wager a lot of these chronically unemployed people are marginally capable of reading / writing / arithmetic. WTF are you going to train them for?
Enough of a case for a Civil War.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/23/finland-ends-universal-basic-income-experiment/
This doesn’t do a damn thing for retired people!
shut up old man–
All socialists think in black and white. Poor people need more money, so give it to them. Need a job? Give them a job. What could be simpler? Anyone who disagrees is immoral. “Why do you hate the poor? What kind of monster are you?” Not even an inkling of potential untoward effects. Irresistible belief system for the stupid and the lazy.
Why doesn’t Bernie just personally hire anyone who wants or needs a job at $15/hr? He can just print up some BernieBux to pay them.
Perfect. Half the people can dig holes. The other half can fill them in.
Why a measly 15 bucks an hour? Clearly Sanders hates poor people. Fuck that, pay them 100k a year.
We could deport all the non-Americans, and freeze all immigration for the next century, or at least bring back the 1924 National Origins law. A good idea for many reasons.
Somehow, though, I suspect this probably doesn’t mesh with Bernie’s agenda.
So is this supposed to be more Liberal feel good lies? Or is it that 3/4 of the American people are morons and will believe anything?
one– year after enactment–
sen bernie sanders today introduced a bill to outlaw price increases on all products/services used by the 99%
No deal. His Socialist Plan was tried in Cuba, Haiti, Angola, Congo, Zimbabwe, Venezuela etc. Bernie would maximize the plunder of the USA Bourgeoisie to extend the agony but then the death spiral would be even worse. The Chinese Communist Model where the Proletariat actually work (for peanuts no less) has absolutely no chance of success here. So run Bernie & Oprah Run!
$15 bucks an hour X 40 hours X 52 weeks $31,200 bucks a year . Wow what a deal , I suppose this will be a tax free wage with womb to tomb medical care with a 20 year retirement at full pay . With a single family home under $100k a new car for $500 bucks and free power water and well you get the point ! LMAO
I’m going to herd my unicorns to collect their chocolate sundae excrement with whip cream nuts and a cherry !
As with all liberal causes sooner or later you run out of other people’s money ! He who has shall have less and he with nothing will have it taken from him HIP HIP HORAAHH KING BERNIE
Man…and I thought we here in NY had it bad with Cuomo,and Schumer . Then again our illustrious Gov. Here in NY just proposed a ban on plastic bags. Now….before you go and say that’s not a real bad idea. Several years back.With help from the environmental wackos. Most businesses did away with paper bags. Then again the lady from sex and the city Nixon. The down stater liberals are starting to like her better. Here in Progressive NY (Cuomo’s words not mine) the beat goes on.
I don’t think the bill stands a chance, but it might succeed in pulling the next Dem presidential candidate farther left, much the way Huey Long’s “Share the Wealth” program pulled FDR & the New Deal farther left. http://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth-speech.php
If they went any further left, they’d fall off the edge of the world.
What I love is that it has not been costed as yet. But what the hell, promise it anyway.
Call it 50 million people at $35 k a year. What is that, over $1.5 trion a year? Peanuts. Let’s do it!
Can you imagine the putput you are going to get from those folks? The damage they will cause on construction projects? The amout of supervision that will be required? The number of injuries that would result?
Hahahahahahahahahaha! I can hardly wait. This would redefine clusterfuck.
Plus add it to his $3 trillion a year medical mandate. No problem. All you gotta do increase taxes 150%. No problemo.
The entire country would resemble Venezuela.
Folks like Bernie who have never actually hired people fail to understand some basic things. Most people are incapable of working without fairly intense supervision. They run into a problem, and they stop. And wait. For somebody else to fix the problem. And they will do this all day. Everyday. And if you get them going again, and then run into another problem, again they will stop. So you got to have layers of people above labor, just to keep them moving. If you don’t, nothing gets done. Good luck with that, Bernie
It’s called welfare and we already have It. Who is going to produce for a job given to you cause the government forces it upon everyone.
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Problem is a lot of people have been leeching off the system for too long and they don’t want to work no matter what the wage is.
The problem is anyone currently on welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing, medicaid, etc. would have to take a pay/benefits cut if they got off all the welfare roles and went to work for $15/hour. The work is already out there for prople who want to work.
Subhuman communist jew POS slimbag! You will pay their wage,right?
He’ll get elected. Then the sh*t hits the fan. Hey, if his wife ain’t in jail for malfeasance, she can be the Treasury Secretary.
If these idiots would stop fucking with the money and the economy, prices would crash and our money’d be worth something again.
Then, the economy would go gangbusters because people could afford things again.
The problem isn’t people need a set $15/hr, the problem is that the Federal Reserve destroyed the value of our currency.
Another giant make work project? The one we have now with the Federal Reserve creating money for Wall Street to speculate and shuffle money from hand to until gone is quite enough thank you.