This week, I'm launching the 30 Million Jobs tour. We're taking the Dylan Ratigan Show on the road, and going all over the country to demonstrate that we are a nation flush with potential. We'll visit what I call "cradles of innovation" all over the place -- in education, health care, and energy -- mini-ecosystems where innovators and pioneers are taking resources and capital and using it to improve the world. We will also show what I detail in my book -- Greedy Bastards -- the systems holding back this potential, starving it of necessary capital.
30 Million Jobs is the number of jobs we need for full and complete U.S. employment. We start our tour in California's Silicon Valley -- one example of our country's cradles of innovation. Where most people see a problem, the people I'm spending time with see a job. And it's pretty clear that, once we end the corruption in our banking, tax, and trade policies, we will have more than enough work for the 30 million people who need it.
Let's begin with energy. When it comes to stationary power generation efficiency, we're at 34%, according to the U.S. Department of Energy Information Administration. That means two out of every three units of electricity we use are tossed out, with nothing to show for it. Generating efficiency gains will take work, and thankfully, we have plenty of people that are unemployed. The problem here is that there is no investment in the sector - t's a desert landscape desperate to be irrigated by a flow of capital. Remember, capital isn't just the central banks and governments. It's private businesses, personal accounts and most importantly, all human potential. The river exists -- its massive, some might say even infinite. It is surging with potential if we only release it. Right now, as I document in my book Greedy Bastards, this flow is going into the pockets of status quo interests because of rigged tax, trade, and banking policies. But there's no reason it couldn't instead go towards bumping up our energy efficiency to 60%, 70% or even 90%.
Or take health care. We all know how screwed up the health care system is. But spending time with Dr. Jeffrey Brenner in Camden, New Jersey, or at the Mayo Clinic, shows that this is a choice. Brenner has demonstrated, through his hotspotting work, that we can dramatically reduce costs by targeting the small number of extremely high cost patients. And the Mayo Clinic, with its innovative team-oriented approach to health, is relentlessly bringing evidence on outcomes into its practice. These are models for us.
Education is another arena where innovation is bursting out all around us. Take the Khan Academy in San Francisco, which flips the traditional model of teaching on its head. Rather than a teacher lecturing students and assigning homework, the Khan Academy offers supremely good lectures online, and then enables classroom time to be a workshop where students get help from teachers. It lets teachers teach, and students learn at their own pace. But importantly, the philosophy behind the Khan Academy strategy is "expect failure, demand mastery" -- failure is NOT penalized, but getting 70% on a lesson quiz means you don't move on to the next lesson. The lessons are about learning, not bureaucratic testing regimes. Again, reconfiguring our education system will take enormous amounts of work, but fortunately, we have plenty of unemployed people that want to work. All it takes is the right financing flows. And that's what my 30 Million Jobs Tour is about.
There's plenty of sun to grow these ecosystems of innovation. We have the know-how. But the river of capital that can enable and scale these models is being held back by three major barriers: man-made levies of bank, tax and trade policy auctioned off by our bought election system. We, in our Greedy Bastards behavior are creating these gates and in the process are holding back the flow of capital by incentivizing credit speculation, job outsourcing, and corrupt pricing on almost every major U.S. service. We auction tax benefits and subsidies through the money and political system to ensure that. But this too is a choice. We will also show in this tour the fights in our electoral and political process, the gerrymandering and corruption, the noble activism and citizen work to get money out of politics.
By using our values of shared visibility, integrity and choice we can achieve aligned interests and demand real, comprehensive trade, tax and bank reform to break down those barriers. And in the process, we will unleash a flow of investments to irrigate these cradles of innovation and yield solutions to our problems while building millions of jobs for America.
Join us, as we explore this fascinating place called America. It is brimming with potential. And it is us.
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Not only do we have a job problem, we have a moral problem. The minimum wage a person can live a life here is not up to par. A person needs at least $17/hour if he is to pay for housing, auto insurance, auto loan, utilities, food and clothing. That does not include eating and occasional hamburger outside of the house or go to a movie for a bday or anniversary. The $7 is ok for a single person living at home and does not have to contribute to the expenses.
The internet black out is supported by a lot of people. In my humble opinion, a person has the right of the property while it is in his possession and it is not publish for profit. After a consumer pays for it, I believe he or she has the right to do with it what ever he or she wants. If I write a song and put it into a disc to be sold for profit, that is the end of my right. From there the only way that I can complain is if someone else claims it to make a profit. But if that person shares it in the internet I think that I will have no right to sue anyone. I already made my profit by selling it to that person and have no right to it.
Now, we can put a regulation, that it will remain the property of the artist a year after it is published, to give enough time for the artist to make enough money as profit and to flood the market, in that way there is less people who would want to share because they may have already bought it.
A consumer already pays for internet and cable which was supposed to be commercial free but is not. And consumers already pay for the art what ever it may be. There is a big problem with art ownership here. If you do not want to share your art do not put it out for others to enjoy and share.
There is no innovation!! It should not surprise us. Investments pays better so those who can do because they have the capital to invest do not. The bottom 80% cannot invest money they do not have, and banks can invest in a big name rather than a good idea. Most of the innovative ideas out there has been already thought of but if you do not have connections or have a big name you cannot even start.
I know how it feels. Because I am goimg through the same thing right now. I have invented a washing machine that only works with water pressure. I was going to through the process of trying to do business with general electric and the non-disclosure agreement will make anyone not do business with them. They claimed that the most they can pay is $5,000. How if you are trying to sell someone one of the best ideas of energy efficient washing machine how can they offer you that. Dylan Ratigan, i saw the commercial that you wanted to make 30,000,000 jobs. Help me achieve your goal.Any questions or videos i have proof of my invention that I can show. My e-mail address is diplan1@hotmail.com
Mr. Ratigan, Following Is A Job Creation Plan Which Is Deficit - Neutral... Now Do What You Alluded To And Mainstream It. (Otherwise stop this sham, now!)
With the month of December unemployment rate, for the country at 8.5%, the unemployment rate for Blacks hovering right around 15.8%, and the need for Job Creation, it is apparent we are a country in dire straits. Our economy needs to create 250,000 to 300,000 jobs each month to sustain a healthy economic recovery. The President and Congress can act now to make this happen and end this recessionby changing the laws governing Social Security to allow 10,000 baby boomers who will be retiring each day over the next 18 years to take partial distributions of $20,000.00 or more dollars from their Social Security principal.
This is A JOB CREATION PLAN WHICH EFFECTIVELY ENDS THIS RECESSION WITHOUT RAISING THE DEFICIT. It can be done cleanly and without adding to the deficit by putting money into hands of retiring baby boomers, who are consumers. It’s a fact, consumers account for about 70% of our economic activity or GDP, ( gross domestic product). Therefore put money into the hands of consumers.You just simply have to change how Social Security checks are paid. Let the boomers have partial distributions of their Social Security principal in the amount of $20,000.00 or $40,000.00 dollars, and issue them a monthly check on the remainder of their principal. Look, let’s say it takes $313,000.00 dollars in principal at 6.9% interest to send me a monthly Social Security check of $1800.00 dollars. So, I say to Social Security, I would like to have some of my money up front, say $40,000.00 dollars. Now pay me a monthly check on the remainder, which is in this instance $273,000.00 dollars, which amounts to a monthly check of $1569.00 dollars. That makes this plan ( let’s call it the Davis Plan )deficit neutral. It’s their money, for heavens sake!! Presenting the option of taking a partial distribution of your retirement principal is common practice in the private sector. Yet we allow, the largest payer of pensions, the Social Security Trust Fund, not to do it at a time when it will benefit our economy the most. The impact of allowing partial distributions, which is simply taking down a part of your pension principal and than rolling over the rest to be received monthly would pull, no, jerk this economy out of this recession. BOOMERS ARE RETIRING AT A RATE OF 10,000 PER DAY STARTING IN JANUARY, at the age of 66 and continuing for the next 18 years! ( at 66, they receive full benefit payments ) 10,000 x $20,000.00 = $200,000,000. million dollars. That’s right! They will dump that amount into this faltering economy each day for the next 18 yrs. That amount in effect is really $400,000,000.00 million dollars per day because money handed directly to the consumer turns over 1 to 2 times. There are 68 to 72 million boomers depending on who’s counting. THIS IS A NO BRAINIER!! With $400,000,000. MILLION DOLLARS coursing through this economy every day, the recession ends!!! Add the incentive of waived or reduced taxes on the first $20,000.00 dollars taken down from any retirement fund, including Social Security and we are off to the races. It’s the boomers and their kids who are getting hardest hit in this recession anyway.
Yes, it will require, the politicians making Social Security actuarially sound, but that is what they say they are going to do anyway!!! Besides, making Social Security actuarially sound is a mathematical function not a political one. Social Security at this time has a surplus and can pay out full benefits up to 2037 without a problem. Look, this plan addresses every objection Republicans and Democrats have. It creates jobs without increasing the deficit and lowers taxes on the wealthy as well as the middle class. It’s big! Lifting all boats in the water at the same time, and answers businesses’ need for long term planning. www.sslumpsum.com