Welfare – Another Good Reason To Establish Occupational Parenting
May 4th, 2016 Updated 5-5-2017 Updated 8-16-2017
Welfare shouldn’t be a national need but is it? Recorded history shows the welfare state dating back to Emperor Augustus who ruled Rome from 27 BC to 14 AD. Rome provided the congiaria or grain dole to those who couldn’t afford it. Outside of recorded history we could take a shot in the dark and say that cavemen practiced some form of welfare. Welfare is usually allotted for women (who still probably gathered) , children, the disabled, and elders. I’m not saying that all bands made these provisions but those who had more probably did.
Welfare in America has quite the negative stigma but something must be in place to keep families from perishing. I’ve tried to be conservative with the numbers. There are 143,390,000 jobs in our Country. The problem is there are 242,470,820 adults living in America. Jobs don’t exist for 99,080,820 individuals. 109,631,000 people are collecting welfare as of 2012. Theoretically 10,550,180 should be able to find jobs. I figure some of those can’t be filled due to logistics. The jobs that are left are most likely minimum wage jobs, but because there are 316,128,839 mouths to feed and give shelter to the quality of each job is important as well. Is there any reasonable solution to America’s welfare state?
I’ve said many times in the past and I’ll keep saying it until it is a reality. Occupational Parenting. The big question is how much would it cost? It would cost approximately 3.7 trillion dollars and we’re buying a perfect economy. That money goes directly back to the hands of We the People, people doing good and profitable things. The wealthy need to step up to plate and hit the ball. Even if it’s just a bunt, do something toward a permanent solution. Just to get an idea of how much the wealthy can help out. Take a look at U.S. Companies Are Stashing $2.1 trillion Overseas to Avoid Taxes. I’m left wondering if making the 540 billionaires that live in America pay their fair share of the taxes would be enough. Still there would be the middle class paying taxes. The lower class making a an adjustable living wage of $15 per hour or $31,200 a year, not a minimum wage, would be taxed as well (Retraction for Implication Of Raising The Minimum Wage). There would be no working poor. If 121,235,410 or half the adult population was employed at home there would be a 22,154,590 job surplus and many new positions would be created from the profession itself, not to mention automation could go into full swing. No-one wants to compete with a machine. 
People would be spending money like it’s going out of style because the living wage automatically adjust to the cost of living. So with everyone pitching in (the very wealthy for the most part) it is possible. The wealthy would have less to spend while everyone else has more. This would most likely lower the cost of products and create a broader manufacturing tier to the Occupational Parenting economy. Capitalism needs incentive. If there $500,000 profit instead of $1,000,000 there’s still plenty of incentive. I, for one, would still try to earn the $500,000. Capitalism has become synonymous with SYSTEMATIC GREED and it should not be so. I love America and I love capitalism but if it’s not policed it will destroy our way of life. Don’t feel too sorry for the wealthy. They’ll still have more than everyone else and that’s fair if they earn it.
Technology has made gadgets less expensive to build than ever before. There would simply be less of profit being made. Apples markup on some of it’s devices is 300% and they’re not the only ones I assure you. (37 Products With Crazy-High Markups) In other words extreme stratification would disappear in the U.S. and it would disappear permanently. Those who do more work should get paid more money but not at the disparity of billions of dollars. An anesthesiologist making 13 times more than a fast food cook is extreme but our problem is much worse when considering Bill Gates, one of 540 billionaires that live in America, makes 7, 308 times more than an anesthesiologist and 95,393 times more than a fast food cook. Do more work make more money. Know-one is doing that much more work than the fast food cook.
Occupational Parenting is something that can’t be implemented by force. I mean what’s to stop our 540 billionaires from moving their residence to another country where they could hold on to more of their personal wealth? Could the U.S. Government then put a band on their products and services and turn to the business people who are left in America? Could big business still keep their personal wealth without American consumer-ship? In any case the most wealthy would have to take a shine to Occupational Parenting. They can change the world through it and there’s no better place to start than America.
For the sake of the economy parents would be allowed to parent until the child is 20 years old. During the last 4 years it would be more practical, than previously, to have another baby and let the 15-19 year old start training to be a parent with their sibling. Once the child is out of the house the Occupational Parenting check stops, whether they’re 15 or 19. There would be monetary incentives to have less children rather than more. The more children you have the less Occupational parenting pays for each child and they still must test out adequately in their bracket of difficulty (Test established by the private sector in child development and implemented by the Government) The American economy would completely change to reflect a new set of priorities and values. What are our values with a consumption based economy that depends on spending more tomorrow. Greed, excess, and self indulgence become the values of society. A consumption based economy is not sustainable. We need something else. Occupational parenting is that something. Society’s values become appealing with a focus on how we raise children.
Something’s got to be done as America is trying to tread water but is drowning in the process. Can you imagine an America where only the world’s wealthy, and those who serve them, reside. Almost all manufacturing jobs have been sent out of the country and pay less than American workers have ever known before. There are products for the poor and products for the wealthy. The poor’s products being a low grade frequently replaced items.
While the wealthy enjoy superior products and services. Misery and oppression is the message we’ll be sending to the Universe and the Universe will respond, as the bleak situation encompasses the world, the world will meet with it’s demise in agony.
A world without end Amen is worth doubling the American budget. All 3.7 trillion goes back into the hands of the people and is taxed. The U.S. could get out of big business as long as the private sector is supporting Occupational Parenting. Every incentive for them to support it would be in place. Basing an economy on anything other than our well-being now and in the future will get less than our well-being. The reasonable answer to the welfare state is it’s protagonists Occupational Parenting. Until next time, keep your homes well.
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