{"id":1876,"date":"2009-03-05T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2010-10-19T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T03:17:18","slug":"spreading-the-wealth-around-will-cause-a-revolution-in-this-great-depression-the-government-should-spread-the-jobs-around-through-a-national-four-day-work-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/spreading-the-wealth-around-will-cause-a-revolution-in-this-great-depression-the-government-should-spread-the-jobs-around-through-a-national-four-day-work-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Spreading the wealth around will cause a revolution. In this great or greatest depression the government should spread the jobs around through a national four day work week."},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifty years ago futurists were saying that by the year 2000 man would be working 10 to 20 hours a week because of increased productivity and automation.\u00a0 Here we are in 2009 and we are still working the same forty hour week that people did in the 1950’s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a novel idea which I am sure government will have to propose sooner or later as unemployment plagues the land.\u00a0 In this great or greatest depression the government should spread the jobs around through a national four day work week.\u00a0 Obama’s plan to spread the wealth around by robbing the productive will just cause a revolution. It has failed everywhere it has been tried.<\/p>\n

Official unemployment numbers will almost certainly reach 10 percent this year and it would be 20 percent if the government actually still counted all the unemployed and it would be much higher yet if they counted the underemployed. Obama and the legislators way of handling this is by throwing money at government funded make work projects, tax rebates, extending unemployment benefits and then passing the costs on to the next generation.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that there a much better way to go about this. It is time to initiate a four day 32 hour work week and maybe a 30 hour week for those employers and employees that agree to three ten-hour days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With democrats running the show, destroying our cheap energy sources, taxing those who create jobs, piling up big government debt there is not going to be any substantial recovery. With the surplus production capacity all over the world we are simply not going to see any significant rebound in jobs in the United States before a world war.\u00a0 Here is an article that will explain why there will be no recovery soon<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We cannot have twenty percent of our population sitting idol losing their homes and standing in soup lines. There will be riots before long so wouldn’t it just make more sense to go to a four day work week?<\/p>\n

The downside is twenty percent less pay but for many about half of that would be taken by the federal state and local governments in taxes anyway. So for about a ten to 15 percent reduction in take home pay you get another day off each week and you do not have to pay the costs associated with going to work for one or two days a week. <\/strong><\/p>\n

What about your benefits? Those who get them will have to pay about a fifth more of the costs but less and less people get benefits and those who still get benefits will increasingly lose them. Some employers have already stopped or will stop contributing to your IRA.\u00a0 In the near future medical costs will become socialized and probably all of it will be payed through a payroll deduction just like Social Security. As soon as Senator Kennedy dies you can be sure his whole socialized health program will be passed.<\/p>\n

If you really need the money a three or four day week would make it much easier for you to find and work a second job<\/strong>. Employers could still pay overtime if they did not want to hire additional help.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the upsides of a four day work week in America.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n