{"id":29951,"date":"2012-08-24T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T01:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/its-not-that-theres-no-work.html"},"modified":"2012-08-24T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T01:53:34","slug":"its-not-that-theres-no-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/its-not-that-theres-no-work.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#39;s not that there&#39;s no work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s that there are no <i>jobs.<\/i> \u00a0Because jobs are, in our private enterprise system, tied to <i>profit.<\/i> Someone has to make more money than they pay in labor (jobs) to be willing to spend the money to translate work into jobs. If nobody&#39;s willing to pay the money &#8212; be it private investors (or, heaven forfend, the taxpayers) &#8212; then there are no jobs, and the work goes undone.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s pretty simple, that way. \u00a0Not that, in a world of limited resources, the answer is merely to spend. But understanding the role of <i>profit<\/i> in why there are no jobs is important. Because it isn&#39;t that there aren&#39;t things we need people to be doing (work).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108266452471018020474'>Victoria Hudgins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you know someone who is still looking for work, or still on the verge of losing their home?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-FqBbheCidCY\/UDguMNr2QYI\/AAAAAAAAGOs\/mY_YsOwu7lI\/work%2Bto%2Bbe%2Bdone.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-FqBbheCidCY\/UDguMNr2QYI\/AAAAAAAAGOs\/mY_YsOwu7lI\/work%2Bto%2Bbe%2Bdone.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/JPHqcQGzpaW' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/JPHqcQGzpaW' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s that there are no jobs. \u00a0Because jobs are, in our private enterprise system, tied to profit. Someone has to make more money than they pay in labor (jobs) to be willing to spend the money to translate work into jobs. If nobody&#39;s willing to pay the money &#8212; be it private investors (or, heaven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/its-not-that-theres-no-work.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#39;s not that there&#39;s no work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28535,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/its-hard-to-grow-jobs-when-you-keep-cutting-them.html","url_meta":{"origin":29951,"position":0},"title":"It&#39;s hard to grow jobs when you keep cutting them","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jul-12 9:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Given that we still have close to four unemployed for every job opening out there, continuing to slash public workforces not only slices into needed\u00a0services, but plain old puts people out of work. \u00a0And then the people doing the slashing (or applauding it) criticize the Administration for joblessness. \u00a0Smooth move.And,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18746,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/18746.html","url_meta":{"origin":29951,"position":1},"title":"Christine O&#8217;Donnell: Liar or Dolt, You Decide","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Sep-10 7:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that Christine O'Donnell needs any more publicity, or that there is any value in actually trying to dissect and discredit the things that spew from her mouth, but ... 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