02-26-2017, 07:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-26-2017, 07:24 PM by Eric the Green.)
(02-26-2017, 09:18 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: America solved the problem of chronic underemployment in the 1930s by shortening the workweek. America was not out of the Crisis and would not be until Emperor Hirohito called for surrender in all but name, but by the late 1930s things were materially better for most Americans than they had been ten years earlier.
Indeed, now the need is to further shorten the work week; it's one of the answers to the worker surplus. The ideology that people should be required to work more than they do in other countries is contributing to unemployment and lower participation in the USA workforce at a time when fewer workers are needed. And this means; shorter hours for the same pay. Make the CEOs cough up the dough instead of hogging it. I understand this might not work for small business owners though. But every available worker deserves a job at a living wage, or else income support if there are not enough jobs.
Quote:"Germany" as a concept was an awkward, novel idea even during the First World War. Germany was less than a half-century old throughout the war. Wilhelmine Germany was an oddity as a federal monarchy as a federation of kingdoms nominally independent with (until Wilhelm II took nearly-autocratic power) a multi-party democracy. But... Donald Trump has remarkable parallels to Wilhelm II in behavior.He has debased American democracy badly, not that he didn't have accomplices.
Many have noticed that although Wilhelm II might have a "soul family" parallel resemblance to The Donald, Mussolini may be the direct reincarnation connection.
http://www.eurasiareview.com/24072016-do...lini-oped/