Why the ruling class doesn’t want a jobs program

1. Unemployment among the super-rich is VERY high and we don’t seem to mind.

2. Bernie Madoff tried working and look where he ended up.

3. People may think they have a right to a job, when they ONLY have the right to look for a job.

4. If more people just stopped looking for work, we wouldn’t have to count them and unemployment could go down that way.

5. We’ve made so many billions doing absolutely nothing useful, why hire more workers to actually DO something useful?

6.  We already have a jobs program— the U.S. Army.

7.  Putting people to work building roads and bridges just isn’t as profitable as not doing it. Otherwise we’d do it.

8.  If more people just watched Fox news, maybe unemployment wouldn’t be seen as such a problem.

9.  As Marie Antoinette said, “Let them eat cake.” Wait ... maybe that isn’t such a good idea.

10. Hello? This IS capitalism, remember?