American jobs and a hypothesis of scrappiness and harmony

The creation of jobs for American workers is really important, I think. Everybody needs a work income - well maybe some of the already-rich folks don't, but the rest of us do - and that also has the important result of adding to the nation's Gross Domestic Product.

President Obama has a jobs bill that he feels is a best-fit compromise way to get some of these jobs going, to maintain essential infrastructure and education that is part of what makes this nation function.

Yet there are those who are opposing this jobs bill. Vehemently opposing.

Apparently their claim is that jobs only ought to come out of the private sector.

It ought to be very plain to everyone that the private sector is not actually doing that; otherwise there would be no unemployment problem ongoing. (Notice the unemployment problem happening right now and getting worse by the day? Notice?)

This is a plain reality test about the claim that private business is willing and able to get the job done for America.

Now, it is possible that the missing jobs are being held back by the wealthy private business employers, just to cripple the present Administration so as to have their own people take their place. I think this is called "politics." The implication is that once the GOP is back in the saddle again, the private employers will release the money to create those needed jobs.

But I think business is more practical than that. If they thought they would make money by hiring the unemployed, they would be doing it. It is not being done. And would not be done even if the GOP was back in the saddle, running America like it did the first eight years of this century, if dependent on individual business bottom line increase.

I doubt that depending on voluntary private business support of America's workforce optimum utilization is going to happen. Responsibility for the whole system is rarely involved in ordinary business establishment planning. The only folks that get a job are the ones who happen to be handy for filling a job function needed by some private business. The other potential workers are not even thought of by businesses.

This all seems fairly obvious to me, and ought to be obvious to most everybody. But clearly it is not obvious, otherwise the GOP folks would have no backing and would soon be outta there.

That is not the situation as of today's news; the GOP is right in there blocking the Administration's best effort to get jobs going to both reduce the number of unemployed, and to get critically important things done needed by America as a whole, like the above-mentioned infrastructure and education items.

Not part of Obama's job stimulation plans, is the manufacturing jobs-creation system I created and have proposed for several years already. It is hardly the only way to do it, but as a relatively simple and quickly implemented technique for rapidly enabling America to get back into the everyday manufacturing mentality, it looks capable of achieving that. It would get everybody into the productivity loop, increasing practical manufacturing skills and education level, without commute expenses and energy costs, and producing a few salable items the nation needs, at lower cost than can be done by conventional manufacturing in the US. Everybody wins. Except, clearly some powerful folks don't think it is a win for them, else it would already be happening today. (In case somebody does not know what I talk about here, it is the "Internet-linked home manufacturing-education workstation system concept.") I think that America needs real manufacturing capacity development based on the technological level of the nation.

And it clearly is not currently getting created by private business; and even if the Administration comprehended and was interested in it, the politics has blocked money availability to do such things by the government.

(Worse, there have been some sleazy scammers online pretending they are doing it, giving it all a bad reputation. Deliberate?)

If America were as great and competent as we assume, such problems would not exist. We seem to be able to come together to wage war on an outsider, and achieving wonders while doing so; but we are not nearly so capable for doing our own housekeeping.

Maybe it is our portion of scrappiness nature. Gotta have those conflicts to show whose better. Right down to the individual young man graduating from high school, needing to show off so as to get more attention from the cute gals by whom he could eventually reproduce; all often part of the creation of the next generation.

Groups form since they usually can wipe out the mere individual, ganging up on him overtly or covertly. And those groups form confederacies with other groups to get greater leverage; and states become the United States. And that Union faces outward to the world, ready to scrap.

Yet at each level, the grouping needs to have internal harmonious functionality, supporting the whole. On the smaller level, this is forced by the need to take on the rival groups. Improved productivity of goods and services can be part of this internal harmony enabling things to get done. Can be, but not directly linked to success intrinsically.

And that is the problem explored here. It is not a generally recognized intrinsic mechanism for internal harmony. It can get aced out by the scrappiness social force.

And that seems to be what is happening in America right now re job creation.

Refs:
http://kestsgeojedc.blogspot.com/2011/08/again-thinking-of-how-to-revive.html
http://kestsgeojedc.blogspot.com/2011/09/again-on-internet-linked-home-sited.html

And more again on what people do do

Puzzling over the current problem of the newly elected congress people acting together to block Obama's efforts to help America recover and prosper again, I just now remembered what is going on there. There is a method to their madness.

The very few ultra-wealthy entities of America got them elected. In a popular vote system, so few people could have little influence, being such a miniscule fraction of the voters. The new GOP congress people that are now deliberately being a stumbling block, sometimes refer to their wealthy sponsors as "job creators." Now, past experience seems to indicate they are not much at job creating, being mostly motivated by chasing whatever makes the most money for the least effort; and all else falls by the wayside, since the wealthy are not responsible - in their minds - for the wellbeing of the whole - being only responsible for their own petty bottom lines.

But now I remember an earlier fracas time, when Obama pointed out that taxing the ultra-wealthy would provide ten times as many new jobs as would the wealthy create by themselves.

Thus the powerful motivation for the voters who put them into congress: by being part of the loyal grassroots of the GOP, they will get preferential acceptance into those 10% new jobs, that are doled out by the ultra-wealthy. Simple as that. Lots easier getting on that bandwagon, than working hard to increase one's competency on jobs.

And in an increasingly scarce job market, the more powerful leverage this is. All the new congress people have to do is hold out, causing America to default and bring chaos, so their ultra-wealthy sponsors can take over America like winnings at the crap table. And divvy it up to the loyal GOPers, leaving out the other 90% of American job seekers. Simple as that.

World, look out, if that happens. There is a huge pile of nukes that come with those winnings of the game players. The craving for "power" historically runs amok, especially when gained unjustly.

Among the forces in this scenario, however, is the strong force of "business as usual" among the big players. For example, like the oil producers: again start making vehicles that consume more gas to make more oil sales and more profit ... not seeing further than that.

And more fundamentally, because, the women will flock to the powerful wealthy, to gain favor for themselves, in the reproduction that provides the next generation.

(And see the scenario happening between the teams of men who are united through a common "religion" to see what happens when they bump into each others' territory.)

--- I'm not so sure I like so much, what people do do.

As I see it at present, the focus on America's goals needs to be on rapidly finding ways to fully utilize the Human Resources potential in America. As I have mentioned in a variety of earlier posts here and my other writings, this needs to be done in a conscious manner, instead of the haphazard one of the above-mentioned scenario. This means including getting me, a retiree, back into the GDP of the nation, even if only in small ways. There is a huge potential for how this can be done. I have frequently proposed the "internet-linked home-sited distributed manufacturing system" as one means for intelligently providing minimum-resource-cost skill expansion, work-related education expansion, and some productivity along with it, that would not have happened otherwise. Establishing the mindset in Americans that their productivity, big and small and diversified, is very important, possibly can be a strong factor in America's recovery.

But so far, this kind of concept is being hidden by the monkeybusiness going on: people trying to be "winners" instead of better producers.