Why
does this left wing Obama supporter find it so difficult to link the
struggle for jobs with the struggle for peace since anyone with an ounce
of common sense understands that without a peace dividend derived from
ending militarism and these dirty wars from which the Wall Street
merchants of death and destruction profit so handsomely as militarism
and wars kill jobs just like they kill people that there will be no jobs without peace?
Also, note that this Obama supporter fails to mention that if the
United States government was financing the creation of two very much
needed universal social programs--- a National Public Health Care System
and a National Public Child Care System providing the American people
with free health care and free child care--- over 18-million jobs would
be created for a fraction of what these wars are costing us while
robbing us of the universal social programs the United Nation's
Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares we are entitled to by
birth.
This writer tries to pull the same crap the Democrats are doing: Trying to make us believe there is no connection between:
1. Militarism and wars and job loss and job creation;
2. There is no connection between people's needs and job creation.
Not one single word is mentioned by this writer about the need for
legislation which would make it mandatory for the President and Congress
to work together to attain and maintain full employment with real
living wage jobs.
It is rather strange we find this "leader" of
the Communist Party USA who slobbers over Obama articulating the
Democratic Party line bringing forward a call for jobs without so much
as mentioning the need to wage a full-fledged struggle for both National
Public Health Care and National Public Child Care since these used to
be part of the Communist Party USA's main anti-monopoly platform which
viewed Wall Street as our primary enemy because these Wall Street
parasites and their bribed politicians in both the Democratic and
Republican parties advanced an imperialist agenda with its never-ending
wars which were viewed as job killers just like these wars kill people.
Obviously, the reforms he suggests are needed. But, let's get real
here. Such reforms will do very little to put people to work with the
capitalist system collapsing on a world scale--- not a stagnating
economy as the over-paid pundits would have us believe--- but, a
collapsing capitalist economy where austerity measures are being shoved
down our throats to pay for these dirty Wall Street imperialist wars
killing our jobs just like they kill people.
The writer here
hides his refusal to get specific about what it will take to get
unemployed and under-employed workers to work with left wing rhetoric---
some true and some nothing but capitulation to the do-nothing
Democrats. This certainly is no way to lead the working class in
struggle by failing to explain the nature of imperialism which is the
highest and most "advanced" stage of capitalism of which massive
unemployment is but one major aspect of this rotten capitalist system
which has become barbaric and cannibalistic.
i invite Mr.
Barile to respond since he reads my postings religiously and has quite a
lot to say to others about what I write but like a coward runs from an
exchange of views.
We know "capitalism can't" but what it will
take to get us on the road to socialism is another matter and Mr. Barile
doesn't seem to want to talk about this because it means understanding
that his favorite politician, Barack Obama, is part of the problem---
not part of the solution... going on five years and no jobs program.
None.
Needless to say, only a complete fool would take Sam
Webb's advice about anything as Pat Barile suggests in conclusion. Webb
couldn't figure out how to get a flimsy brown paper bag off his own
head.
Like I say; some good points have been made. But the
important points are completely missed. Specifics required to get
25-million Americans to work at living wage jobs solving the most
pressing problems of the American people is completely missed.
Anyways, here is what this Obama-lover wrote recently:
When capitalism can’t
by: Pat Barile
July 3 2013
Today science stands on the cusp of developing new productive methods
and capacities that will increase many fold the quantity of surplus
value [privately-owned profit]. Today, there are hundreds of millions of
people around the world who are and remain permanently in the "reserve
army of the unemployed." Twenty-two million of these unemployed workers
are in the United States alone.
The new productive capacities
stemming from the developing sciences not only will increase surplus
value at blinding speeds but threaten the need for and existence of
human beings in the production process to create that surplus value. The
reserve army of the unemployed will grow with the same intensity, and
will have to organize its struggle for survival within every country and
jointly, around the world.
The responsibility for the world's
unemployed rests on the shoulders of the capitalist system in each
country and the government and laws under which they operate.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, "When capitalism cannot
provide jobs for the unemployed, then the government(s) must act before
it loses the power to do so."
Capitalism cannot provide jobs
for the hundreds of millions of unemployed, nor does it have any
interest in doing so. Capitalism is in business to make profits, not
jobs. When it needs workers, it will hire them; when it no longer needs
them, it will fire them. As the new production technologies develop and
the rate of production is intensified, workers will be needed for
shorter and shorter periods of time.
Although capitalism cannot
provide jobs for everyone who is willing, ready and able to work, we
must wring out every job possible. Under the new lightening speed
commodity production, fundamental changes in the economy are necessary.
The old rules and relations which produce mass unemployment have to be
sharply amended or replaced. Governmental processes which have always
been in the control of capitalism must be redirected to meet the new
production situation.
It is time for the labor movement, the
unemployed, African Americans, Latinos, economists, progressives,
liberals, in short, the "99 percent", to enter into a dialogue; to probe
what it will take to win permanent, ongoing job-creating programs.
Everyone's ideas for solutions should be discussed.
In order to
change direction, it is necessary to examine and challenge the
fundamentals of capitalism and make changes as they become necessary, to
ensure the implementation of such job creation programs.
For
example, capitalist propaganda makes the claim that it is the superior
economic system. Why then, does the number of permanently unemployed
continue to mount like snowflakes in a blizzard; why is it necessary for
the government to continue to pump trillions of dollars into the Wall
Street banking system while ever greater numbers of the "47 percent"
fall into poverty. Why is it necessary for government to suppress
democratic participation (example, voter suppression).
Another
example is the granting of patents. Patents that cover inventions which
receive public financing should be granted on the condition that the
production for use and profit shall be shared with the government, and
that the production takes place in the United States.
The U.S.
government's budget provides billions of dollars to universities,
laboratories and private industry for research and development. How long
can we tolerate these jobs being sent abroad?
A good jobs
creation program must contain vast reconstruction and reclamation
projects. It should lay the basis for the progressive shortening of the
work day and work week with higher wages. It should provide for
substantial leisure time for workers and public facilities for the
enjoyment of that time.
There are countless ways to discuss and
develop a "new people's normal." A good place to start is by read the
speech given last February at the University of Georgia by Communist
Party Chair Sam Webb, entitled, "Is full employment possible under
capitalism?" Webb argues, "It's hard to see where the economic dynamism
and jobs are going to come from without action by the federal
government, and the restructuring of the economy on a scale that only a
few in Washington are ready to embrace."
It is the people's movement that will change this so that we can move forward towards full employment and a more just society.