Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to guarantee every American a job

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218. Good. Somebody has to dream big

Unlike the naysayers on this thread. Why shouldn't the Democrats and others show some actual leadership on issues that matter? Sure, maybe UBI is a better way to go, but we have certainly done something similar with the CCC and various other work programs during the Depression. And actually this country would benefit from the sort of massive public works projects that occurred then. There are major infrastructure problems that need fixing and people who need jobs.

Of course the CCC and other programs were government programs and in this area of a pro-corporation Democratic Party, this will not fly, unless it is some sort of bullshit "public-private partnerships' which is a guaranteed corporate giveaway. Or possibly it gets watered down to some sort of "internship" only the children of the rich can afford to take.

The trick is in the implementation. With any Republican administration and certainly this one, it would only be a way for their friends to benefit. With any Democratic administration, it would end up being so water-down as to be useless, so as not to offend their corporate donors.