The Right to a Job, Food & Water, and Housing
by Dave Welsh / June 21st, 2008

Nowadays, a lot of the things many people took for granted are suddenly no
longer there. Like their job, their steady income, their home; enough food
to keep body and soul together.

So the question comes: Are these basic human rights, which the society is
obligated to provide? Or is it a matter of "I've got mine, buddy. What's
wrong with you?"

The right to a job
What if the way the economy is structured means there will always be a lot
of unemployed people, as has always been the case since the dawn of
capitalism 200-some years ago? What if the recent high-tech revolution
creates a larger and larger pool of people without any job or realistic hope
of finding one? Are we doomed to see more and more of our fine young people
hanging around in the wasteland with no job and nothing to do?

Obviously, the big business owners and the government they control don't
give a rat's ass about there not being enough jobs to go around - or they
would have long since done something about it! The truth is, they need to
have a pool of unemployed to keep the wages down [and profits up]!