What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around?

Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by yummyfajitas on Thursday July 21, 2016 @05:29PM (#12140232)

No, I'd like the government to stop paying people to do nothing, and instead pay them to provide government services. Rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, provide child care to working women, left wing types have a huge laundry list of things they'd like the government to do more of.

I'd also like to replace as many (currently overpaid) government workers with welfare types as possible. Why pay $50k/year to a unionized govt janitor when you can just order someone currently on welfare to do the same job for no extra money?

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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by selimthegrim on Thursday July 21, 2016 @08:03PM (#12140915)

Try doing this with the MTA or LIRR workers or the prison guards and see how far you get in the next election before they strike and clog up the city.

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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by yummyfajitas on Friday July 22, 2016 @01:41AM (#12141914)

I agree that shutting down certain criminal organizations may be politically infeasible, since they can hold us hostage to keep their gravy train running.

When I say they are criminal organizations, I refer to organizations with rates of disability fraud as high as 97%.

http://mtaig.state.ny.us/assets/breaking_news/Newsday_7-23-1...

http://www.independentsentinel.com/a-must-read-federal-judge...

https://nypost.com/2014/08/06/nearly-all-lirr-workers-have-d...

What I'd suggest is that if they don't cause trouble, we don't send them to jail.

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