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I think it's clear that 30 some-odd years of consumer-based economic policy have landed us exactly where it should have -- up to our eyeballs in debt and since we're not the world's cheapest workers, out of work.
I've been laid off twice during the current recession. You can give me all the fiscal stimulus you want, you can wave all kinds of sales in front of my face, but what I need is work. And not the reactive, consumer-based kind. There are a bunch of things we need to do on a national scale:
- repair roads and bridges
- staff schools -- Hire a bunch of us as TAs. We can work with teachers to grade papers and do paperwork while they do what they're good at.
- build an electrical network that is based on the Internet
- build a high speed internet framework that is accessible to all
- rebuild our rail system
Heck -- I always wonder why the unemployment office doesn't put people to work on a part-time basis as part of their benefits.
