We need the jobs back!

Wall Street and the fat-cat bankers are coming up smelling like roses lately; the Fed Government has bought in for stock shares as the bankers’ new partners. How? With Zillions of taxpayers’ I.O.U. money that will have to come from new taxes or public programs cuts next year, even benefits cuts of vital state services like the police and firemen for many years down the line. Oh yeah, don’t forget the additional I.O.U. money needed for the next mega buyout to save the credit card tycoons. It’s coming.

Another rebate as an economy booster shot in the arm //really for their benefit, not yours// is coming soon too, in order to bolster consumer spending. That will come from taxpayers’ money, of course.

More on the second consumer rebate: Who wants money that will be spent and gone? A Band-Aid that will only create more trouble down the line? This is somewhat like getting cash on Uncle Sam’s credit card. It’s not free money, there’ll be a payback due, maybe not immediately but due someday one way or other from you and you and you….

The future? Guess what? Maybe we’re on our way from being a consumer society to becoming a welfare society. Will we call our monthly handouts the “dole” as well? Without a workingman’s salary and only the make-do money from the monthly dole, will it be paradise? — sure, no work but plenty of time, but without the money to buy or do anything. Good Gawk! Dole means exist, period. No extras.

The global financial banking crisis may have been solved by the world leaders for now, but can it hold without eventually solving the basic problem? The real problem? The real problem is the lack of jobs!

As I have said before, the solution is jobs. The next president needs to address this get-a-job issue. Under Bush (and possibly, but hope not, a Bush-like McCain) all the job news that’s ever printed or broadcasted or from the Internet is news of the number of jobs eliminated here, eliminated there. But don’t despair; there is an answer. Jobs. We need, instead, news reports of new jobs available, and of companies and government agencies rehiring.

Where did the idea of work come from, anyway? It is said from ancient Egypt. The Pharaoh’s best advisors and best minds were ordered to come up with something other than war that would keep his people’s idle minds and restless bodies occupied and thus quell the chaos rampant in their society.

They came up with the concept of putting everyone to work building tombstones, now called pyramids. Each man got paid, and his job lasted his lifetime; in fact, many lifetimes for each individual worker’ slot.

And it has been said that’s how this “fable” about the invention of the idea of work and make-work came about. The difference between this “fable” and the “Garden of Eden” story from the Bible is that one is society-postive while the other is based on sin.

There’s nothing wrong with make-work projects. They can be those like rebuilding our highways, and building better water treatment plants. No consumer products are involved. Whereas, a private for-consumers company with a product to sell needs money from a worker’s salary to complete the cycle. Worker–money–product–worker–money….

What’s my recipe for the functioning economy? Let’s bring back those factories of ours that were outsourced by the greed Captains of Consumerism just to jack up their own salaries, their board of directors’ salaries and the pay-out to their shareholders. All that was done in greed needs to be undone for the sake of our economy and for the health of these United States. Make jobs! Make even to-do jobs something like was done in our National Parks as part or FDR’s answer to his time of the Depression.

We need to dig down past all our physical and mental obstructions. What’s there? It’s obvious that people working jobs make money, spend money, pay their mortgages and that is how our economy works — that is its life. Our nation needs a capable leader. I believe Obama can provide the leadership needed to put the American people back to work with jobs. It can be done; it must be done, he can do it.

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