Please consider posting to your blog the entry previewed and linked to below. The entry adapts and expands on my February 6, 2010 guest-entry on popular blog Zero Hedge. An excerpt from the new entry has been noted approvingly by Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi.

My guest-entry on Zero Hedge:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-jobs-plan-wed-get-if-leading-innovation-scholars-and-growth-economists-werent-bei

To learn about Zero Hedge, see this feature story from the September 27, 2009 issue of New York magazine:

http://nymag.com/guides/money/2009/59457/

Matt Taibbi’s approving note (i.e., “call out”):

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/02/17/feeling-low/comment-page-2/#comment-7336

The title of my new entry:

Catalyze the Creation of Many Jobs in the U.S.? End the Reign of America’s Kleptobankers? The Fledgling Customized-Education Industry is the Best Bet to Do Both, Findings of Top Researchers Indicate.

Among the researchers: Clayton Christensen, Paul Romer, Paul Krugman and Mancur Olson.

The full text of the new entry:

http://www.opportunitv.com/2010/02/17/canonical-findings-top-researchers-customized-education-catalyzing-creation-of-many-jobs-ending-reign-of-kleptobankers/

About me:

Set out to become a comedy writer, recognized the need to develop a comic persona, settled on an approach for doing so. A byproduct of taking said approach: a business plan for establishing online markets that provide people with new and improved ways to customize education, and to showcase and earn money from expertise. The plan has been praised by analysts at Microsoft, Amazon.com and top venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson??? The plan is adapted and expanded on at OpportuniTV.com. More about my background, including my approach to developing a comic persona, appears in footnote [1] of the Introduction page.

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Contact me with any questions, etc.

Best regards,

Frank Ruscica

What is Jobs For America Now offering them, in terms of resources, information or leadership? NOTHING. Its website is nothing but an SEOed placeholder. A cruel joke. Your “Call to Action” was posted on December 16th for heaven’s sake. Are you even aware of the legislative status of unemployment benefits as of now, in February, 2010?

Your Feb. 11 post on TrueMajority,org reveals your true goals, and the fact that ‘Progressives’ operating in the Beltway have no inkling about or interest in creating jobs. Unemployment for you and your affiliates is not about middle class families living in campers in the woods, it’s about politics. You said it yourself:

>>First, we need to organize Jobs for America Now as a long-term campaign. We will fight intensely for the maximum legislative gains possible in 2010. Subsequently, we will make every effort to frame the 2010 elections around the jobs crisis. But, we need a campaign trajectory that reaches way beyond one year, building on the premise that the jobs crisis will be prolonged and that it will be the central organizing context for progressives.<<

Jeez, it sounds like you’re rooting for prolonged unemployment as a progressive leverage point for long-term political gain! You might temper such perverse enthusiasm in your next post. Though I don’t guess it will appear on JobsForAmericaNow.org which is, truly, so feeble that it actually insults those who truly need jobs in America. Now.

Meanwhile, until Progressives start to actually work for Americans, you are no more effective than the most obstructionist of GOP senators and you have no more hope of re-election in November than they do.

Instead of having 10 percent unemployment, what if we worked 10 percent fewer hours?

By Dean Baker

“One way to view a period with an extreme shortfall in demand, like the housing crash recession or the Great Depression, is as a period in which we don’t know what work we want people to do. Given the levels of demand in the [current] economy, 10 percent of the workforce would go unemployed. We can develop stimulus packages in an effort to find at least somewhat useful ways to employ our excess labor force. If good projects can be placed on the stimulus list, this route can be an effective way to reach full employment.

“However, we can also go in the opposite direction. If we lack enough useful ways to employ our workforce, we could simply work less. Instead of having 10 percent of the workforce unemployed, we could have the whole workforce employed, but working 10 percent fewer hours. If everyone got paid the same as when they worked 10 percent more hours (a situation that we can bring about using government money, because of a shortfall in demand), everyone should be better off and we will have eliminated unemployment. The real world will never be this simple, but we can follow this logic to try to bring the economy to full employment by shortening working hours and leaving total pay unchanged.

“Reducing unemployment through a reduction in average work hours can be accomplished by giving a tax credit to employers to give their workers paid time off, which can take the form of paid family leave, paid sick days, paid vacation, or a shorter work week. This tax credit would both provide short-term stimulus and an incentive to restructure workplaces in ways that are more family friendly. It is likely that many workplaces will leave in place changes enacted to take advantage of this tax credit long after the credit has expired.”

Work time reduction heralds an alternative political economy, one based on life, leisure, friendship, citizenship and culture, not money.