On August 3, 2012 Peter Whoriskey writes in the Washington Post:
The monthly jobs figures released on Friday offered both good and bad news.
On the one hand, payrolls expanded by 163,000 people, a promising rise after three straight months of disappointing job gains. Jobs in manufacturing rose by 25,000; there were 9,000 fewer jobs in government.
But the rate of unemployment nevertheless rose from 8.2 percent to 8.3 percent. It was a small enough difference in the rate that the Labor Department called it “essentially unchanged,” but more Americans are looking for work. The jobless rate has been above 8 percent since February 2009.
This is yet another article that focuses solely on job creation rather than ownership creation and fueling the growth of the American economy with investment in future income-producing productive capital––the non-human factor of production embodied in human-intelligent machines, superautomation, robotics, digital computerized operations, etc. Such future assets resulting from technological innovation and invention need to be created using financing mechanism in which the majority of ordinary Americans can acquire their ownership stakes and pay for their acquisition out of the earnings generated by the investments. This will not only spur dramatic economic growth but in the short term result in a real demand for labor workers, and enable people to begin to accumulate a viable portfolio of dividend earnings plus income from wages and salaries, if they choose to work.
Neither President Obama or candidate Romney are offering any concrete, specific proposals for policies and programs that address this BIG PROBLEM––that is, the job destroying and degrading nature of tectonic shifts in the technologies of production that is exponentially occurring throughout the world. Until we, as a nation, address this issue, we will continue to experience job destruction or degradation, which will leave middle-class families struggling from falling into near poverty or poverty, which in turn will create less demand for the products and services our economic engine is capable of producing.
There is a solution. See the Just Third Way at http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/thirdway-intro.htm and Capital Homesteading at http://www.cesj.org/homestead/index.htm
Also, please see my article “Democratic Capitalism And Binary Economics: Solutions For A Troubled Nation and Economy” at http://foreconomicjustice.com/11/economic-justice/ or follow me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/For-Economic-Justice/347893098576250 and http://www.facebook.com/editorgary
