Have a Question on the Jobs Crisis?
These days, it’s hard not to have questions about jobs. For altogether too many people, it’s “why don’t I have one?” But even people who love the jobs they have know that we need to solve the jobs crisis, not just for jobless workers but for the health of the country itself. And how we do that is a huge question—really a lot of huge questions.
One person who’s spent a lot of time thinking about those questions is AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, and he’s going to be answering some of them on Tuesday afternoon. You can submit questions, or vote on questions other people have submitted, and President Trumka will answer the top vote-getters in a live online video session Tuesday, December 15, from 4:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon.
Here are the details:
• Visit http://www.aflcio.org/open to submit a question and vote on questions.
• Sign in here to participate if you have a Google account.
• If you don’t have a Google account, create one here.
And while you’re there, vote for the question from Working America’s own David Wehde, who asked:
“‘We can’t just flip burgers for one another’ (comment from a worker’s round table at the Minnesota office of Working America): What are we going to do to create well-paying jobs that can support a family and won’t be outsourced?”
Tags: jobs
Without extremely high import tariffs, US workers must compete with foreign workers at very low foreign wage scales. The US government should build manufacturing plants to make various consumer products in sequence one product at a time, i.e. refrigerators, washing machines, clothing, TV’s, electronics, tires, auto parts, hand tools, power tools, machine tools, appliances, and etc. How about passing laws to prohibit the export of service jobs such as accounting, telemarketing, customer service, computer aided drafting, engineering, etc. that are now provided by workers overseas through the internet. Eventually all of the consumer goods that we import could be made in the USA. We should then impose extremely high import taxes that are high enough so that these US made products are always less expensive to the consumer than the same imported product.
These plants should periodically and/or constantly be for sale based upon periodic open public competitive bidding, but at a minimum sale price at least equal to as much as the government investment, and with terms of cash only without any creative financing. There should not be any leveraged or other creative financing for purchase allowed by the government. Only cash sales should be allowed.
The management should know about making the products, not creative accounting and/or creative financing.
Yes, the consumer will pay several times the price for the particular US manufactured product, but maybe this might avert a second American revolution.
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