What are we going to retrain them for? Administrative assistants that can process EI claims faster?
A few options:
1. Shift taxes from income to resources. This would automatically discourage people from importing, encourage them to buy local, and put a stop to subeurban sprawl. This would promote the consturction of higher-density housing too. Lower income tax would also make lower salaries more palatable too.
2. Build enclosed year-round bicycle tunnels. this would help the poor and the environment, and cause a boom in the bicycle industry. Bring bicycles high-tech, electric bicycles too why not?
3. Cut spending on second-language instruction except for a common easy second language. Within a generation, Canadian companies and all levels of government would no longer need to hire interpreters and translators for pan-Canadian communication. this would make all levels of government, and the private sector, the military, police, paramedics, hospitals and others more efficient. The savings from this could be redirected towards re-education. restructuring our language policy along more technocratic lines would create many jobs too since it would mean retraining EFL and FLS teachers to teachers to teach the new and easier common second language. we'd need teachers for the teachers.
4. Cut funding to the arts, and redirect that towards education. people's livelyhood takes precedence over the arts.
5. invest in telecommuting technologies and re-training for that.
6. add solar panels to homes. Bicycle tunnels could be solar powered too.
7. provide free education in organic gardening and vegetarian cookery. For some people, it could be a career opportunity. And for the rest, good home economics and ecology, so still not a waste of money. This could also help the poor by ensuring that they know how to cook rather than go to restaurants all the time.
8. See is we can share a military with other nations. The money saved could also pay for the retraining.
yet none of these would be make work jobs since they would focus on making our system more efficient in the long run, and so would be an investment. Restrurt
uring could also make the rich more interested in cycling and other money-saving activities. this would make them more willing to give to charity too. Let's cut the fat out of our system. That could be ajob in and of itself. Let's make fat-cutting our new industry.