12-09-2015, 06:27 AM
(12-09-2015, 03:37 AM)gstanford Wrote: Your way will never work because in your own words "Oh yeah, lower wages and benefits. Because all companies care about is profit."
The employers you think will save the poor already sold them out to 3rd world nations for profit!
Oh, and humans have existed as "keeps people alive for doing nothing" for hundreds of thousands of years before capitalism and wage-slavery was dreamed up by rich controlling bastards......
My idea would work BECAUSE of the greed of the corps, not in spite of it.
What if you made it corps pay $300, govt pays $300 and buys the HMO? You think the socks can be made in Asia, and shipped back here for less than $300/week per worker? That's still a $30K a year job, not bad for low skill at all.
The PR benefits would be HUGE, all American labor, trade deficit dented, more jobs for American white collar.
The only problem I can think of is unfair competition with domestic labor that exists- but there is a lot of stuff just not made here anymore we could bring back.
Think of the effect that would have on the kids of these families - mom/dad isn't a welfare bum, they go to work and earn their keep like anyone else. I think even the welfare bums don't want to be for the most part, they want to have the dignity of paying their own way.