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I’m sitting in my car while the gas station attended fuels my car, when it hits me. No, not the pump nozzle the solution. I know how to help the economy, get it moving, AND provide more jobs.
All states must ban self-service gas stations. New Jersey is currently the only state that protects the gas station attendant jobs. All other states have heartlessly allowed self service stations to flourish. Consequently, countless gas station attendants are now unemployed.
People blame NAFT and free trade for destroying jobs. However, here we are destroying jobs in our own country and it as absolutely nothing at all to do with NAFTA.
Think of it. Millions of gas station attendants will be hired. They will spend their wages in various parts of the economy to help get it going.
After we’ve do that, they we can require that ALL car owns get their cars serviced at the manufacturers recommended service interval. This will do three things, it will keep American’s fleet of cars safer, it will provide more jobs for auto mechanics and better-maintained cars will have few breakdowns and thus the economy will see a productivity gain.
This train of thought can be carried on to many other aspects of life. By requiring consumers to NOT always take the cheapest way out, we can put American back to work.
Posted by Ted at February 17, 2004 9:59 PM