On Friday, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. announced the Federal Jobs Guarantee Development Act, which would call for the Department of Labor to select up to 15 areas to institute a job guarantee. According to Vox, which first reported on Booker’s plan, those jobs would pay the higher of $15 per hour or the prevailing wage and offer paid family leave and health benefits.
“The federal jobs guarantee is an idea that demands to be taken seriously,” Booker said in a statement. “Creating an employment guarantee would give all Americans a shot at a day’s work and, by introducing competition into the labor market, raise wages and improve benefits for all workers.”
Bernie Sanders To Introduce A Federal Program That Will Guarantee Every American A Job
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I digress.
Bernie Sanders believes it’s the government’s responsibility to ensure that we all have jobs. He’s expected to unveil a plan, in which the federal government would “guarantee a job offering $15 per hour and health care benefits to any American worker ‘who wants or needs one.'”
Gee, that sounds practical and totally not expensive at all!
It is not clear when Sanders will announce the plan and a Sanders spokesperson told the Post that it was still being crafted.
It is also not clear how Sanders’ plan would be paid for. Republicans have long opposed a federal jobs guarantee, saying such a plan would be too expensive and impractical.
Think about it. Has too expensive and too impractical ever stopped Bernie Sanders before?
The Post reported that an early draft of Sanders’ plan calls for the government to fund hundreds of projects in categories such as infrastructure, education and the environment. Americans would be entitled to receive a job with one of those projects or receive job training to do so.
WE DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO A JOB. Stop growing the government and making people MORE dependent on it, Bernie. This is a terrible idea, but you know the Bernouts are going to be all, “Yeah! This is a great idea! Jobbbbbbbs maaaaaan. People should be entitled to those.”
The good thing is, this probably won’t get very far, because most Sanders supporters like the idea of work, but they don’t actually WANT to work. They just want the free stuff.
Here’s what I say. I’m not opposed to job training programs, but there’d have to be a tradeoff. We’d pay for it by reducing entitlements, and we’d make THAT the objective: Getting people OFF welfare and into the PRIVATE sector.
I already know Democrats would be adamantly opposed to that.
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