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Subject: With all due respect to David Bell:
Re: The Federal Government has no more capacity to control unemployment that the Salvation Army has to control sin.
David, the government can offer jobs additional to what the private sector can supply until there is no one left who will take them. It's not rocket science. http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=34412
"For example, during the Great Depression, US President Roosevelt's New Deal was introduced as the private sector was in full-scale retreat from job creation. The Public Works Administration (PWA), which was part of the New Deal, created hundreds of thousands of jobs and the work helped restore ageing public infrastructure (such as, roads, dams and bridges).
Many new buildings were constructed during this period (schools, recreational spaces, libraries, hospitals), which have delivered benefits to the generations that followed.
Harry Kelber (2008) wrote that the WPA meant that:
- Thousands of unemployed writers, actors, musicians and painters were given an opportunity to earn a modest livelihood from their artistic talents and to enrich the lives of countless culturally-deprived citizens. The productions of the WPA Theater Project, for example, entertained a phenomenal audience totaling 60 million people, a great many who had never before seen a play.
At the time, Kelber (2008) notes that the private electricity providers stridently opposed the challenge to their monopoly control. The upshot was that the project forced them to reduce their power charges.
In general, the dynamism of the public sector at that time caused huge outcries from the capitalists who didn't want challenges to their cosy profit making industries from public sector enterprise.
But societal well-being was unambigously advanced.
[Reference: Kelber, H. (2008) How the New Deal Created Millions of Jobs To Lift the American People from Depression, The Labor Educator, May 9, 2008. LINK.]
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To: Toronto Star <lettertoed@thestar.ca>
Cc: chebert@thestar.ca
Subject: Re: The NDP need a principled approach to policy, not a rock star leader: H�bert, February 27, 2017
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/02/27/the-ndp-need-a-principled-approach-to-policy-not-a-rock-star-leader-hbert.html
Implementing progressive social and environmental policies will require a robust federal budget which the NDP must champion. A bold program is a recognition that the market will not solve all problems and that a government truly dedicated to public purpose must put its money where its mouth is.
During the recent financial crisis when big banks and credit card companies experienced liquidity problems, the federal government came to their rescue with a generous $200 billion support program. The same fiscal capacity (which comes from owning a central bank with sovereign currency) could also fund a Just Transition framework that would provide immediate relief as regions moved toward sustainable and environment-friendly jobs. Studies suggest that alternative investments in renewable energy, conservation, public transit and building retrofits (rather than pipelines) would create between 3 and 34 times the number of direct jobs.
The NDP must sharply differentiate itself from conventional economic policies and boldly go where no party has gone before.
Footnotes:
1. Improving Access to Financing and Strengthening Canada's ...
www.fin.gc.ca/pub/report-rapport/2011-7/ceap-paec-2f-eng.asp
- To soften the impact of the crisis, the first phase of Canada's Economic Action Plan included measures to provide up to $200 billion to support lending to Canadian households and businesses through the Extraordinary Financing Framework.
- A just transition in any threatened region or sector requires government intervention and community partnerships to create the regulatory framework, infrastructure and market incentives for the creation of well-paid, secure, healthy, satisfying environmentally-friendly jobs with particular attention to appropriately meeting the needs of affected workers and their communities.
- Government support in a progressive world must include:
- Assistance for both displaced workers and for contractors;
- Adequate notice of workplace change and closures;
- Consultation with and full engagement of relevant unions;
- Support for innovation and partnerships for new local industries, research and development and infrastructure investments;
- Training and alternative employment tailored to local and individual needs and opportunities;
- Special targeted support for older, disabled and less educated workers;
- Relocation assistance for displaced workers;
- Income maintenance, redundancy entitlements and retraining allowances;
- Cheap loans and subsidies for new industries and employers;
- Compensation and equipment buy-outs for contractors;
- Assistance programs extended to workers employed by contractors;
- A just transition requires investment in training programs and apprenticeships to create a highly trained green workforce;
- The introduction of a Job Guarantee to provide continuous employment for all those without work.
3. The Economic Costs and Benefits of the Proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/BC%20Office/2012/03/CCPA-BC_Enbridge_Pipe_Dreams_2012_SUMMARY.pdf
- Alternative $5 billion investments in green jobs and industries would create between 3 and 34 times the number of direct jobs
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