http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/10/261361049/will-last-jobs-report-for-2013-offer-hopeful-signs-for-2014
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-10/payrolls-in-u-s-rise-less-than-forecast-jobless-rate-at-6-7-.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/business/weak-jobs-report-cited-in-call-for-extended-jobless-benefits.html?_r=0
having read twenty or so other pieces of news about the same topic over the last three months, i'm not going to bother reading those, but i will offer them as examples of what i'm talking about.
i guess it makes a good headline/story to write about the lack of jobs in the usa. there are some simple ways to create jobs. start by ending the taxes on upstarts/levelling the playing field/smashing the cartels and monopolies, whatever you want to call it.
here are a few that come to mind:
cellphone companies: obviously those two year contracts need to be outlawed. everyone pays out the ass for shitty service. yeah, maybe t-mobile is doing something different, but i'm not sure. why not have each tower sell service independently, by the second/kilobyte or whatever. anything but milking everyone and doing nothing will all the money would be better.
tv stations: 200,000$ licensing fees just to get in the door. for fucks sake. i know they want to keep the riffraff off the tube for the sake of national unity, but i think the resulting poverty of both information and ideas is actually a bigger problem, especially in terms of creating jobs.
copyrights: 75 years or 125 years, whatever it is. i think its pretty obvious to see this is way too long. why not strictly enforce 5 years of copyrights, instead of this ridiculous 3 life span long eternity? allow the small guys to get some of the action, but the big dogs can eat first.
i'm sure there are others, big and small, that are taking money away from everybody and not doing much with it. as far as i'm concerned, only the federal government needs the right to print money. it should be taken away from everyone else.
and last but not least, banks. last week i heard a story about boeing factory works in washington state. they were being given a shitty bargain by boeing because "airlines are demanding steep discounts" on aeroplanes. well, who owns boeing, and who owns the airlines? my guess is that they are both significantly owned by big banks, regardless of the status as "publicly traded" companies. everyone else is in the pinch. if they want to get which and force society to cannibalize itself in the process, then let's just settle this with rounds of arm wrestling right now.
but hey, keep up this awesome story writing about jobs, and you'll sell a lot more newspapers, right?
