Fema Employment

should the government create enough jobs to guarantee full employment?

Public Comments

1. go to College , obtain a degree or trade to obtain your own job It's NOT the Governments job to find you employment
2. Even the government works in terms. How could they guarantee full employment?
3. No. If the government were to create enough jobs for everyone, it would have to pay them. Where does the government get their money from? Taxes. Our taxes. In order to employ everyone with government work, taxes would have to be increased to a point where our paychecks would be virtually nonexistent.
4. No. Most of the government jobs in existence are a form of welfare since overall productivity is very low and there is no real mechanism or incentive for improvement. The government performance efforts pretend to rate employees on such factors as productivity, job knowledge, and personal interactions but it only goes through the motions of doing so. Private industry is needed to produce real GDP. But then, government is needed to serve as one of private industry's biggest customers. Government wastes money with travel junkets all over the place but since the employees are not productive any way, their time doesn't really matter. The actual money spent is your tax money but it is funneled back into the taxpayer's pockets because money spent helps keep airlines, hotels, car rental agencies, supply houses, and many other industries in business. If government controlled 100 percent of the money cycle the overall standard of living would diminish because of its large inefficiencies. Also, we would no longer be a capitalistic society and the American dream would no longer exist. If government kept creating jobs to guarantee full employment, it would create more disincentives for marginal individuals to seek or conduct real work. Also, by doing so, it would ensure a sustained high rate of inflation. The answer is no.
5. In the recovery from the 1920s stock market crash, the President instituted a program that provided work for those who were unable to obtain any work - called the WPA. In those days there was no financial assistance from either the states or the fed and people were dying because they had zero money. The WPA built much of the US interstate highway system, the most familiar being Route 66 which went from East to West coast. I mention this because our economy is in much worse condition on jobs than the numbers indicate. With downsizing, sending jobs to other countries, and companies just folding lots of people are out of work. Our government only counts those who are receiving unemployment benefits as being out of work SO if you do not qualify for these benefits or run out of benefits you fall off the chart and are no longer counted. I do not know if the government has the ability to determine what "full employment" actually is. I do think that they need to create some working programs, like the old WPA, for the thousands of workers who are out of work and are no longer even counted.