If we are supporting the living Universal Basic Income, and we need a Sense of Purpose, then why not support the Job Guarantee? We do. In past blogs I have mentions the pitfalls of people needing something to do that will give them an occupation.

The Jobs Guarantees has many pluses working with the Government, Public and private sector to create a Social Economy. This would be beneficial to all.

A job guarantee is an economic policy proposal aimed at providing a sustainable solution to the dual problems of poverty and unemployment. Its aim is to create full employment and price stability with out conditions or demands for the public to participate.

The economic policy stance currently dominant around the world uses unemployment as a policy tool to control inflation; when cost pressures rise, the standard monetary policy carried out by the monetary authority (central bank) tightens interest rates, creating a buffer stock of unemployed people, which reduces wage demands, and ultimately inflation. When inflationary expectations subside.

JG draws from a social justice tradition of right to work, such as the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the US Employment Act of 1946, and an early form was proposed by Hyman Minsky.

Hyman Philip Minsky (September 23, 1919 – October 24, 1996) was an American economist, a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis, and a distinguished scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

In the video Dr. Stephan Kelton speaks of the Universal Basic Income, and she is just about 1000% wrong about the UBI.

First, it would be implemented that we have both a A Living Universal Income and Job Gurentee. The LUBI will free people from having to be obedient to the Government. She mentions the flaws of the UBI that it can be attacked by conservatives and undermine our financial stability, She is right on that level. Her views on the JG are almost authortarian.

There needs to be a realization the a JG can also be used as a weapon for forced labor, conditions to government and industry, that would take our freedoms and liberties away.

There could be even more sinister aspects to the JG than LUBI (They Can be used wrongly. We need to prevent both from becoming the new slavery.) Than there is the reality that there are no endless jobs. Jobs are temporary and transient, financial freedom lasts forever. That is the major advantage of the LUBI over the JG.

There is talk of the Infrastructure Jobs. This is a good idea for now. It is not sustaining idea though. One, as the Ecology Grows, Sustainable Communities will develop, meaning that there will be less infrastructure maintenance. Two, As Automation grows, alternative energies will be automatic. Even today less employees are needed for the “Green Jobs”. The views projected in the video is seriously flawed. (But there is a multitudes of good here also. Very Educational on the JG)

The Futurist Magazine even declares people having Jobs in the future will be the rare exception.

Here is a list of what we need:

1. A Living Universal Income

2. A Job Guarantee

3. Installation of the Bill of Democratic Rights- Guarenteeing a Living Wage, LUBI, and JG and the freedom and autonomy from work-(My Body, My Choice.)

http://oracles.0catch.com/bdr.htm

4. Turn Community Colleges into Polytechnic institutes that offer Bachelors rather than Associate degrees.

5. Perpetuate more worker owned Co-ops. Give people free choice of what they want to do.

6. Provide high risk loans from the Small Business Administration

In my experience, I was part of the CETA program of the 1980’s. The Government controls your life in place training you for jobs that will become extinct and you have no choice in your ambitions. The administrators puts you where they want you to go.

When I was on Food Stamps/TANF, once again the Government Controlled my life and pimped me out for free work. The government frequently shows no respect for the citizen. The JG can become another Control trap. In a conservative sense, we have more Government in our lives.

Policy should run this way. The LUBI and JG are Unconditional and the Citizens have the right to a Job or the Right to maintain existence on their terms. The JG can turn into another Authoritarian Control mechanism that would be on Par with Authoritarianism. It would operate with the same mentality. No one should in a free and democratic society lose their freedom and liberty to other peoples standards.

From The Bill of democratic Rights:

EIGHT: Everyone has the right to social programs and security. Every Human being shall be provided with a qualitative basic life support that have been left out of the work force. Each person shall have the right to health care and proper lodging in a conducive environment. Each person has a Right to a living substance and universal health care from the government. The Government must provide Living Universal Income and Health Care.