Saturday - October 15, 2011

Grab Your Shovel And Spread The WealthE

Hey, remember that civilian army Obama used to talk about?

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises.

In an interview with the Daily Caller on Wednesday, the Illinois Democrat applauded President Obama for directing his staff to greenlight job-creating initiatives without congressional approval after his $447 billion jobs bill was defeated in the Senate this week.

“Now we’re making some progress,” Jackson said, comparing the legislative gridlock in Congress to the states that seceded from the union during the Civil War.

“We’ve seen Congress is in rebellion,” he said, “determined to wreck or ruin at all costs.”

Jackson said the government’s direct hiring of the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans would cost $600 billion.

“It could be a five-year program,” he said. “For another $104 billion, we bail out all of the states. For another $100 billion, we bail out all of the cities.”

“We put people to work cleaning up communities. We put people to work through a civilian conservation corps, through a Works Progress Administration because the hour demands it,” he said.

“And as more people work, they pay taxes, they pay taxes into the 4th quarter, they buy wares, they buy homes, they meet their obligations and our economy begins to work its way out of this protracted recession,” he continued. “That’s the only way out of this crisis. And I hope the president begins to continue to exercise extraordinary constitutional means based on the history of Congresses that have been in rebellion in the past.”

Golly, the jobs part alone works out to only another $2,000 in debt for every single citizen in the nation. PER YEAR.

You know, this is pretty much what I expected Obama’s “shovel ready” plan to be, back in 2009. In some ways it would have made more sense than dropping a half billion here, a half billion there, to create a couple of dozen jobs at some phony “green” venture start up run by one of his bundlers. And let’s face it, this sounds almost exactly like FDR’s CCC from back in the 30’s. It even has the same name (Democrats: always thinking up something “new”, right?). We could call it the Civilian Conservation Corps Plan, or CCCP for short. Might as well be honest with the acronym, because most folks are too stupid to even realize what that means.

And of course you’d want the plan to be fair, so it would have to cover not just the folks who are unemployed now, but those who become unemployed in the near future. Unintended consequences coming in over the event horizon at Mach 7 sir!!!  By which I mean that every single person in the country working for less than $19.23 per hour would get themselves fired or quit and sign up overnight. Which means that the 15 million would be 60 million in a week, and 100 million the week after that. So the cost would multiply by 7 instantly. It would be the ultimate Cash For Clunkers program (in terms of an uncontrollable bailout, not in terms of denigration for the people that work those lower paying jobs). I don’t know the details, but I’m sure that such jobs, regardless of what the actual work would entail (work? hah!), would also come with government level health bennies, so add at least another 1 to the cost multiplier and go with 8. This week. And of course you’d need a huge bunch of managers and overseers to shepherd all those people, so let’s hire at least another half million government employees at a considerably higher rate than his $40,000 proposal to be the massahs bosses comrades of authority.

And any business that has low paying clerks, drivers, kitchen staff, cart boys, shipping clerks, cleaning staff, door greeters, ... you name it, they would have to immediately increase their pay rate to $20/hr to keep their workers aboard. And match or beat the benefits. Which would really cheese off the more skilled workers at corporate, so those folks would all need an instant $12,000 raise. And the only place that kind of money could come from is from the salaries of the big bad owners and executives. They would necessarily have to take a major pay cut; pretty soon none of them from the CEO downwards would be earning more than $100,000. That is, until they figured out how to outsource their entire company to India, where they could then pay all the workers 28¢ per week or whatever the prevailing slave wage over there is. $1? $5? Whatever, it ain’t much, even in India. But hey, no problem. All those extra 90 million Americans put out of work could then sign up for the $40,000 government jobs. But they’d be paying taxes right Jesse Jr? So it would all work out. Sure it would. At least until all those 190 million people all joined a union and demanded a “living wage” of $50/hr. Plus more bennies.

And this guy is a Congressman. This is one of our leaders. One of our “best and brightest”. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Illinois in case it wasn’t obvious) is up for re-election. Vote early and often!

UPDATE: Just to be clear, Jackson is calling for the POTUS to be a tyrant and do an end-run around the Constitution:

“do it through direct hire ... the hour demands it ... that’s the extraordinary constitutional means ... the Congress is in rebellion ... this Congress is completely disfunctional ... declare a national emergency ...”

“We’ve got to go further. I support what [Obama] does. Clearly, Republicans are not going to be for it but if the administration can handle administratively what can be done, we should pursue it. And if there are extra-constitutional opportunities that allow the president administratively to put the people to work, he should pursue every single one of them.”

No question about it: “extraordinary” is being used here as “extra-ordinary”, which means atypical. “Extra-constitutional” means beyond and/or outside of the Constitution. Put simply, it is rule by fiat, by the command of the King, the ukase of the Czar.

What the heck, King Charles I President Obama, if Parliament Congress is in rebellion, might as well just dissolve them. We know how that works out, right?

Posted by Drew458     on 10/15/2011 at 07:15 AM   
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