[lbo-talk] OWS Demands working group: jobs for all!

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 04:27:53 PDT 2011


On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:56 PM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Eric - please think about this.

I started to respond to this, but then saw Voyou's reply, which is exactly where I was going with this stuff. Whew! I got out of thinking about this.


> Maybe we're not all on the same page about what "full employment" means. It
> does *not* mean everybody works. It does not mean maximizing the number of
> people in the labor market. It means that everybody who *wants* a job can
> find a job with relative ease.

What else would it mean?


> As for your claim that the powers that be "aren't willing" to allow it -
> does that mean you're only in favor of demands that the authorities will
> willingly grant???

I meant powers from below, not above, as Voyou said.



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