Get a Job

In reviewing many blogs and even in asking the question on Facebook, DocBrain has found no answer for job creation. Everyone just blasts those who are of different political camps. Progressives blame Bush, Republican Congress, and even Reagan. Conservatives blame the Democrat Congress and particularly the Democrat oversight of affordable housing. Everyone wants to blame the money-lenders (ie, Wall Street, Banks). But none of this actually answers the question: Where have all the jobs gone? And, more importantly, how can we get back to full employment with real jobs?

Obama seems to think that India can export jobs to America. India has mainly acted to import job fillers to America and to take jobs from America to India. Our problem is that population growth has outpaced job creation. This growth is through childbirth as well as legal and illegal immigration.

Some believe that public sector jobs are the answer, that Capitalism is the problem, but these people fail to explain how public sector employment will provide a sustainable solution. Indeed, there is no example of a public sector economy that has withstood the test of time.

A private sector economy that is hampered by taxes and regulations cannot compete against unhampered competitors on the world stage.

The solution to the economy is indeed political, since economic activity is subservient to political control through law, regulation, and corruption.

One of the myths of America is that it is "Can Do". Americans aren't victims, they are heroes. So, the concept of Americans as "vulnerable" doesn't compute with our self-image. Just give us an opportunity and we'll take it.

The new myth is of economic injustice, that the few wealthy victimize the many poor. This is a gross misunderstanding of human ethics and motives, and implies a bias among those who promote this myth. If one looks at the inequalities among people in terms of income, one will often find differences that explain this. A preoccupation with wealth distribution fails to understand that happiness, the ultimate goal of every human, is not mathematically directly related to wealth. A "fair" distribution of wealth (and of the labor, responsibilites, and dangers associated with it) would likely not increase happiness.

So, it gets back to jobs. Jobs that have social meaning, bettering the world, creating a win-win situation.

My prior post listed some possible solutions. We will see if we move in that direction. But if we don't, get ready for some more pain.