<how to promote more labor in the US of A>
1. Reforming education, to reward good results (and those results must be objectively measured). This means getting rid of tenure, promotion by seniority, and unions as they exist today. It means providing choice and competition in education.
2. Education should focus on practical, useful knowledge. That means a lot more math and science, and a lot less of everything else.
3. An industrial policy, like Germany and China have. It's not a level playing field, when they promote/protect/subsidize their "strategic industries", and we don't. Alternately, the threat of an American industrial policy, could force China and others to dismantle theirs.
4. If we are going to have environmental regulations, we should tax imports produced where there aren't equal standards. Otherwise, the jobs just go overseas (or across the border to Mexico), while the pollution actually increases. Current policy is a failure, both economically and environmentally.
5. End our overseas wars, cut the military budget in half, and use the money to increase the productivity and competitiveness of American workers: infrastructure, education, health care, etc.
6. Socialized Medicine, like the rest of the civilized world has. We spend 2 or 3 times as much per capita on "health care", compared to other rich nations, and their results are as good or superior to ours. Health care costs put every American industry at a competitive disadvantage. |
