The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department and other agencies that track labor force participation, price increases and supply shortages can be tasked with developing a specific dashboard of blinkers and warnings to alert to problems.
If Congress and the White House want to be responsible stewards of both society and the U.S. dollar's value, then rather than focusing on taxation of the rich, they should prioritize and supply exactly what it would take, in terms of real resources, to electrify the nation's power grid, repair every deficient bridge, give caretakers a living wage, upgrade our railways, and deliver clean drinking water and high-speed broadband to every home. How many people will it take to do all of that work? How much steel, concrete and fiber optic cable? How many tower cranes and other kinds of building equipment will be needed? The list goes on.
These are the questions we should ask our leaders, and the ones they should be asking themselves not "How will we pay for it?"
We need to keep our eyes on what needs to be done as opposed to the false limitations. If there are enough people to do the work that needs to be done and an economy cannot connect the two, then the economic system is flawed. As we practice it, capitalism is flawed as it does nothing but transfer the wealth of many to the few. When we rid ourselves of the indoctrination, the purposeful manipulation of "our" economy to create a form of antiseptic slavery, one without physical chains but mental chains, we will build the egalitarian society most yearn for.
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