In my last post, I explained the best way to end unemployment is an Ebay / Paypal style solution to auction off the “Man Weeks” of our unemployed:

1. All registered workers are guaranteed an income of $10,400 per year, at least $6 per hour.  The minimum bid is $1, and the government uses current Unemployment Insurance I monies to add up to $5.
2. Current UI ends after 90 days.  To receive any extra aid of any kind (food stamps, Section 8, energy assistance, etc.) able bodied workers must register in this system. They receive a Debit Card where their pay is deposited every Friday.  They can choose to earn less, but they cannot decline to work and get GI.
3. We are all allowed to bid on any worker’s Man Week, as long as we have first deposited the money to cover the bid in the system; no credit will be extended.  This bid covers employer taxes, workers compensation, everything soup-to-nuts.

Below you will find the pay schedule I’m suggesting, but first I want to talk about a gorgeous side effect of this plan: it ends illegal immigration.  In fact, it actually causes current illegals to deport themselves.

The reason is simple: When farmers can bid $4.00 per hour to have unemployed American citizens pick the grape crop, they will no longer hire illegals.  You get the drift?  Immediately, there will be no jobs open to illegal immigrants.  Since (in this $4 case) the government is adding $3.50 per hour, the US citizen is earning $7.50 ($15,600 per year).

We’ll leverage the extra pay provided by the government (money we spend anyway) to end demand for non-citizen workers.

Notice that we don’t need to staff up the Immigration Department to chase down coyotes; we don’t need to raid companies looking for illegal immigrants; we don’t need to build a wall across Mexico; we don’t need to waste time passing harsh laws.

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I’m about to perform a healing.   For those non-believers out there… like magic, it will terrify and then delight you.   Maybe it’ll scare the jesus into you.

I warn even the staunchest Christian; this will test your mettle.   It will clench your teeth and stiffen your spine.   But, Tea Party babies, I love you!   Have faith!  This idea will end unemployment, and the Fed will never be allowed to print money again.   In God We Trust.

And God wants us to provide every unemployed American citizen a Guaranteed Income of $10,400 per year.

Fifteen million Americans are unemployed.  Even if this program INCREASES the number of people calling themselves unemployed, I want to guarantee all of them, as long as they choose to stay in the program, a check from the Government for $200 per week.

But, there’s a catch.  God’s in the details…

Instead of 99 weeks, Unemployment Insurance will end at three months.  After it runs out, the unemployed will be allowed to enter our new Guaranteed Income system:

1. There’s no more minimum wage.
2. They have to take any job offered.
3. If  they slack off at work and they keep getting fired, they are out of the program.
4. Payments decrease to zero as they earn towards $9 per hour– but on a schedule that still incentivizes them to earn more.

Once someone is in the Guaranteed Income program, their resume goes into the GI website, and if you offer them $2 per hour to pick up dog sh*t in your yard, they pick up dog sh*t.  If a call center offers them $3 per hour for forty hours, they earn an extra $120 per week.

Poof!  There’s no more unemployment.  God said, “Let there be light.”

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