In communist counties, unemployment is eliminated!

[DEGuy]

Sarcasm. I'm just getting sick and tired of listening to politicians continually saying that jobs are the big issue, and unemployment is too high, and we need to do "whatever it takes to get Americans back to work." None of that matters if these "jobs" don't even provide a livable wage and those people still need to rely somewhat on welfare to get by. Whenever I hear a politician talking about jobs, I want to blurt out, "Well, communist countries have solved this problem!" But I think the deeper point would be lost on them. Shouldn't the real goal be to make America more competitive and efficient on a global scale? Countries that invest in their industrial base and education have historically seen booms in prosperity for everyone. Now, I'm NOT saying the government should be doing the investing, but they should at least stay out of the way of people who want to invest in long-term projects. Or stop building up a bubble in education that raises the prices for everyone and creates the incorrect impression that a degree in anything is worth the investment.

[EcoWarrier]

In Communist counties, unemployment is eliminated because their economic systems were more stable. Why? There was no harmful speculation in Land and its Resouces that causes booms and busts and world-wide crashes.

A salient lesson to be learned from that economic system. We must ensure our free-market economic systems do the same. It is easy to do.

[cubical]

I will run on a platform of 100% employment by banning trade of any kind with anyone. Everyone must grow their own food, build their own house, make their own clothes. It will be paradise, trust me!

[LibertyEagle]

In Communist counties, unemployment is eliminated because their economic systems were more stable. Why? There was no harmful speculation in Land and its Resouces that causes booms and busts and world-wide crashes.

A salient lesson to be learned from that economic system. We must ensure our free-market economic systems do the same. It is easy to do.

What in the world are you talking about?

[Kluge]

What in the world are you talking about?

A whole lot of bullshit. Two fellows, EcoWarrier and RoyL, have targeted us for conversion to their bizarre Geoist cult.

[awake]

There was no such thing as unemployment in chattel slavery either.

[Indy Vidual]

In communist counties, Freedom is eliminated!

[row333au]

Because from childhood to senility you're forced to work for the one and only corporate in monopoly as your freedom of selective choice to work and buy from... as with all other unemployed are concentrated in camps. Also all things are free as long as its what the ruling party is willing to give you in return for more prolong sacrifices for the masters of the leaderships to keep them in dictators role, in ultra-wealth and excessive exorbitant immoral laps of luxuries.

[The Goat]

What in the world are you talking about?

He's just one of those idiots that think eliminating speculation would fix everything. I think he watched to much O'riley when gas prices got around 4 dollars a few years ago.

[DEGuy]

There was no such thing as unemployment in chattel slavery either.

Exactly. If anything, an accurate measure of a nation's economy should be based on the number of people who are able to provide themselves with the basic commodities - food, shelter, and clothes without assistance. That's regardless of whether or not they have a job.