Written by Jim Green   

WE have all of the tools necessary to end our unemployment crisis in America, tomorrow—but we are not using them….WHY?

We have pervasive unemployment in America --9.1 million per the 12/2014 DOL Jobs Report—[with the true picture projected to be over 20 million unemployed/under-employed—with the data skewed against minorities]— Also, given “automation”, alone, our high unemployment will get progressively worse with each passing year in the 21st Century….

Further, we have the “legal authorization” [15 USC § 3101] to reduce our unemployment rate to 3%, tomorrow, and 86% of Americans believe that “anybody wanting to work should be able to find a job”….[See HR 1000, The Neighbor-To-Neighbor Job Creation Act--NTN]…

Indeed, we Americans can land on the moon, but appear to be powerless in solving the most pernicious socio-economic problem facing America, today—JOBS!

Given the vitriolic political climate in DC it is little wonder Democrats celebrate the jobs that have been restored since 2008-- and the Republican job solution CAUSED our jobless crisis! But we have barely scratched the surface on a real solution—the CBO projects, as we inch downward, it will be 2017 before we return to even an anemic 5.5%—and if the market fails in the interim….the jobless are out of luck!

But to unravel the mystery of why we are unable to fix our unemployment crisis, we need to go back to the close of WW II, when President Truman was determined to provide employment for our returning troops, and Truman signed into law the [FULL] EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1946.

—IF the American people were to step in to guarantee employment for our returning GI’s, however,—it would mean that the plutocracy/oligarchy [who write our state employment laws] would have to give up the archaic belief that employees in America should be without rights—and the returning GI was erroneously perceived as “competing” for jobs--rather than accurately perceived as an “asset” to the market—

Unemployment is an “Everyone Loses”—the jobless lose, and market loses, to wit:

Short Definition:

3% is the zero-sum threshold above which unemployment starts substantially undermining the Market--and the loss in income to the Market is compounded exponentially with each percentage point of increase in unemployment, above 3%.

Jim Green, Democrat opponent to Lamar Smith, Congress, 2000