Let's be clear: You and I will not be getting a federal jobs guarantee with a living wage. It's for our own good. We just don't understand that having the safety and the security of a guaranteed job so we can provide for our families is not in our best interests.

The Taliban, on the other hand, are more deserving of a U.S. federal government jobs guarantee program than American workers.



US offers safety, job security for Taliban over Afghanistan peace process

The US is eager to persuade the Taliban to join the peace process in Afghanistan and is offering a safety network that includes job opportunities for the insurgents, a media report said Thursday.

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"Although some members of the Taliban may be weary of fighting and ready to lay down their weapons, they will only rejoin society if they believe their safety and the safety of their families are guaranteed, and if they have an opportunity to earn enough money to provide for their families," the report said, quoting a Pentagon plan sent to Congress this week, along with the proposals for addressing US security concerns and the interests of Afghanistan's neighbours.

Eager to persuade Taliban to join the Afghan peace process, the US is offering them a safety network that includes creating job opportunities for the insurgents, the report said.

I have no problem with giving the Taliban living wage jobs, because the commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan himself admitted that we can't win militarily in Afghanistan.

So giving them jobs would be MUCH cheaper than continuing this war.

My question is: how do American workers get in on this? Is it necessary to join the Taliban, or will any terrorist group satisfy the requirements?

The news media tells us to forget about it.

A 'Federal Jobs Guarantee' Idea Is Costly, Misguided.

Federal work programs can have real downsides.

The Jobs Guarantee Is Absurd.

The Democratic establishment agrees with Republicans when it comes to not granting a jobs guarantee.

Still the government already subsidizes jobs.



Subsidies from state and local governments to attract employers to locate their facilities cost as much as $80 billion a year. I have to say “as much as” because local governments and businesses keep these deals secret. Even though the Governmental Accounting Standards Board requires localities to make such “economic development” deals public, around half of all local governments just don’t comply. But thanks to public filings and the subsidy trackers at Good Jobs First, we know enough to confidently make the $80 billion a year estimate. Wisconsin promised $3 billion to Foxconn for a factory employing around 13,000 people at its peak. Cities and states have offered as much as $8.5 billion to Amazon for its second headquarters, which would house around 50,000 people.

... A report from the Economic Policy Institute on Amazon’s $1.1 billion in known subsidies for “fulfillment center” warehouses found that they do not increase overall private sector employment within a particular county. The $80 billion in economic development subsidies is just the beginning. The Trump tax cuts were sold on the basis of job creation effects. The Republican Congress called the bill the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.”

Then there is the fact that the cost of a job guarantee would be partially offset by reduced demand for benefit programs for the working poor, like food stamps, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

I believe the cost of a jobs guarantee program has nothing to do with establishment opposition.

This is all about control.

TPTB can't control the Taliban, so they negotiate. You and me, OTOH, they can dismiss.

The lesson to be learned here is that if you want something from the TPTB, you must take it by force. They don't respect anything else.