Support NERA - the National Employment Recovery Act

THE SIX ECONOMIC PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED NERA WILL ADDRESS:
1) Uncertainty in the long-term solvency of Social Security and
2) Uncertainty in the long-term solvency of Medicare due to the "short-circuit" in FICA revenue;
3) The increasing national deficit and
4) The reduction in well-paying living wage middle class jobs;
5) Stagnant or declining educational standards insufficient to properly equip the next generation with the skill sets required to meet future economic requirements, all of which are resulting in:
6) The "watering down" of the American Standard of Living to a global substandard as opposed to the elevation of the global standard to the American benchmark.

AT THE CORE OF THE SOLUTION: NERA - THE NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT RECOVERY ACT:

Properly implemented, the NERA bill we the signers of this petition propose to our respective congressmen will rectify these problems by providing another tool (in addition to the prime interest rate) to the FED for making the cost of products or services originating overseas fall within a "free trade" window of their cost to produce or provide domestically.

Indirectly, the increased domestic employment will address Social Security and Medicare worries through the increased FICA revenue that will be realized as the result of NERA.

Directly, resolving the deficit, providing education needs for the next generation as well as supplementing Medicare and Social Security when needed would be provided by the direct revenue stemming from NERA.

NERA is good for business as well, especially small ones, as they are less likely to be driven out by subsidized or cheap labor overseas.

NERA represents an engineering approach solution. The key is to implement NERA impartially using strict economic rules and without political favoritism or influence, why it is suggested that the FED (or a similar independent entity that can be monitored but not controlled) be used for NERA administration.

THE NEED FOR NERA:

Via FICA both Social Security and Medicare are funded by payroll deductions on the domestic working class, the philosophy being the current working generation supports the needs of the prior one. Exporting jobs without compensating by some means for the FICA revenue lost "short-circuits" this well-designed mechanism as fewer jobs means fewer income streams for FICA to deduct from and less FICA revenue, resulting in the Social Security and Medicare solvency concerns. This decreased domestic income stream also exacerbates the deficit and educational issues as well, requiring an ever smaller "upper class" to devote ever more revenue to meet these needs. Ultimately democracy itself becomes compromised as politicians begin to pay more attention to a "financial aristocracy" and less attention to securing the welfare of the general populace. The middle class then is effectively eliminated.

One idea often discussed is to supplement the FICA funds lost by switching from those who work to those who consume with a value added tax. But with fewer domestic living wage jobs this becomes ineffective, due to a decreasing average tax base value.

NERA though works by giving another tool to the FED, allowing it to impartially impose actively monitored surcharges on items produced outside this country to keep them within a "free market trading range" window of what it would cost to produce the same items domestically.

ADMINISTERING NERA:

NERA must be administered without regards to politics using raw economic laws. THIS IS PRO-LABOR LEGISLATION, think of it mechanically as like a flywheel governor on the free trade process to keep it from spinning out-of-control:

o Exclude foreign companies which choose to locate here, hire our work force and abide by our labor laws.

o DO NOT exclude domestic companies which export labor overseas then seek to bring products produced there back here to sell.

o The increased FICA revenue will then take care of the Social Security and Medicare solvency concerns. Use the direct revenue to improve education for the next generation (e.g. restore the "High" in high school) and then to pay down the deficit ONLY, NO OTHER SPENDING UNTIL THESE SHORTFALLS ARE TAKEN CARE OF AND WE ARE BACK ON A SURPLUS FOOTING.

Effectively then we "tax away" any advantages of foreign subsidies, "dumping" and using cheaper overseas labor thereby keeping our domestic businesses from being overwhelmed. Any surplus direct revenue resulting from NERA must go straight to lower the deficit and to improve education standards for the next generation, NOTHING ELSE. Thus we keep our economy from being "watered down" to the lowest global denominator.

This is the effective way for our government to unilaterally handle this problem. Since we only establish free trade "windows" note that domestic companies still have to compete within those windows, surviving ideally on quality of product and service as they should but the playing fie...