Downtown LA. (Thomas photo 2009)The Right to Work
We live in a country which celebrates several "rights" and "freedoms"--and that is good.
There is another item which I would also like to add to our list of "inalienable" rights: the right to work.
President Roosevelt was in favor of this idea long ago--but it is a notion that has not found a champion in many years.
It seems to me that a good government in the "world of today" would recognize that if a person has no paid work--that person cannot survive.
This is the simplest and most obvious economic fact.
And since there is no other entity to provide this stabilizing cash flow--our political system should make sure that everyone who wants to work could have a job which would pay well enough to live with some comfort.
In my opinion, the Right to Work is more basic to a composed, healthy and honest society than the right to medical care which is being argued today with such heat.
There is another item which I would also like to add to our list of "inalienable" rights: the right to work.
President Roosevelt was in favor of this idea long ago--but it is a notion that has not found a champion in many years.
It seems to me that a good government in the "world of today" would recognize that if a person has no paid work--that person cannot survive.
This is the simplest and most obvious economic fact.
And since there is no other entity to provide this stabilizing cash flow--our political system should make sure that everyone who wants to work could have a job which would pay well enough to live with some comfort.
In my opinion, the Right to Work is more basic to a composed, healthy and honest society than the right to medical care which is being argued today with such heat.
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