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Unemployment is the number one problem facing Americans today. President Obama proposes further stimulus — government spending and tax cuts for small business — to help create more jobs. Republicans may block this plan, since the President seeks other tax hikes to pay for it. Don’t wait for a government-induced job. These plans do not address the underlying problems of machines taking over human jobs and outsourcing jobs to offshore markets.
Without new jobs, Americans can’t have a good economy. Without a good economy, we can’t continue providing a social safety net to the poor (one in six is now considered poor). We also lose our strength abroad and decline as a country. Taxing the rich more and austerity spending initiatives are painful and don’t address the underlying problems.
The unemployed are a tremendous resource and they are being wasted. Green considers the American human capital sitting on the sidelines a gold mine.
Current human-resource business models are not working up to par anymore. In the same way that businesses need to restructure from old economy to new economy models, labor and management relationships need to restructure too. The old command-and-control model used in the army too is not ideal for many businesses as their principal and only means of engaging people.
More and more small, medium and large businesses are engaging independent contractors and joint venture partners, rather than hiring more employees. Businesses like engaging entrepreneurs to handle their needs and they will chose to in-source and home-source in America when given the opportunity with a great price and terms – zero down and value-billing.
In the new global labor market, U.S workers are becoming too expensive in the eyes of employers. Workers in India and China demand far lower pay checks and their governments don’t require contributions to social safety nets. Taxes and regulations are lower offshore too.
If you lost your job to these machines and outsourcing trends, then navigate yourself back into work, by navigating around these obstacles. You don’t need a fixed salary and benefits; you can work as an independent contractor. Most clients will be honorable and pay a fair amount. When these clients consider all the risks offshoring — less security, IP theft and lower quality of work — they will choose you, an American with no strings attached. After some success in working together, these companies will probably seek more formal agreements with some strings attached — to be sure you stay with them.
Use Green’s Entrepreneurs Network to assemble a team of like-minded entrepreneurs to offer packaged solutions to clients. We are the reverse of unions: Where unions use collective bargaining to stick up companies and force their hand going offshore, we use it to offer much better pricing power — zero down with value-billing based on the honor system.
