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Do You Have a Right to a Job?

Do You Have a Right to a Job?


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Surfing the net, I came across this.

Against mass unemployment, layoffs and workplace shutdowns, the working class must defend unconditionally the right to a job. Every worker who is laid off and all those entering the workforce must be guaranteed paid job training and employment.

The Right to a job | Socialist Equality Party

Interesting point of view. What do you think? Is having a job a right?

Adding the poll right now. Answers will be yes, no and I don't know.
 
No, you don't have a right to a job, however, I would not be opposed to creating job tasks for a good percentage of people on some of the social welfare programs. In the private sector, it's pretty much determined by supply/demand market forces, and that can't be guaranteed as a right without taking away incentive.
 
Surfing the net, I came across this.



The Right to a job | Socialist Equality Party

Interesting point of view. What do you think? Is having a job a right?

Adding the poll right now. Answers will be yes, no and I don't know.

The way they define it, that it is OWED to you, no. Emphatically no.

Do you have the freedom to seek and procure employment? Yes.
 
simple.....NOTHING can be a right if it is a good or a service.......its unconstitutional.

Hmmmm, I'm a bit of a constitutional purist and I don't believe anyone has a right right to a job, but I'm not sure how trying to guarantee one as a right would violate the Constitution.
 
Absolutely not.
 
Surfing the net, I came across this.



The Right to a job | Socialist Equality Party

Interesting point of view. What do you think? Is having a job a right?

Adding the poll right now. Answers will be yes, no and I don't know.

No.

Double no since it's not mentioned in the Constitution.

But there are some who believe that illegal aliens have a right to take American jobs away from citizens.
 
Well we all know that Corp USA and the gang of 8 prefer to employ foriegn criminals rather than US CITIZENS in their own country........

We dont have ANY rights.....and as McCain stated, we dont even have the rights of a criminal in USA......we are just declaried "foreign combatents"
in our own country agian......:( ... Shift+R improves the quality of this image. CTRL+F5 reloads the whole page.

And it is the job of the Gov to act in the interest of the Poeple.

if not, the GOv gets replaced. And that is what the Constitution is all about .
 
Such as Rubio. Should be an interesting 19 months until the 2014 election.
Many things are not mentioned in the Constitution, like God, but Republies say them anyway.

No.

Double no since it's not mentioned in the Constitution.

But there are some who believe that illegal aliens have a right to take American jobs away from citizens.
 
For anyone who votes yes (and responds to this thread in a way that makes sense :D), I'd be curious to know who should be charged with enforcing this right and how should they do it?
 
Hmmmm, I'm a bit of a constitutional purist and I don't believe anyone has a right right to a job, but I'm not sure how trying to guarantee one as a right would violate the Constitution.

if you guarantee a job to person A, then person B has to supply that job for the right to be fulfilled.

that means person B is mandated ( forced) to create and /or provide a job against his will.

when you make a good or service a right, then it has to be paid for or provide by another person, and that is stealing, and servitude.....unconstitutional on both counts.

stealing by government is unconstitutional, and putting people in servitude is unconstitutional.
 
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Sure why not, the government can provide everyone willing to work a job then to pay for those salaries they can tax them 100%. I like it, free labor!
 
Such as Rubio. Should be an interesting 19 months until the 2014 election.
Many things are not mentioned in the Constitution, like God, but Republies say them anyway.

As the first Supreme Court Justice of the United States said, what's not in the U.S. Constitution then you turn to "The Law of Nations." Guess what ? I bet the answer is in there.
 
No, you don't. But you should. It's stupid and self-defeating that we don't guarantee people employment. Instead we make people hunt down work and compete for jobs, and then shame them when they don't have one. And use their desperation to keep wages and benefits down. We're all poorer because we don't do this.
 
Was he a Federalist or a Democratic-Republican?
I still love the originals for saying "Creator".
I say it in class with no fear.
The simple idea of a "Creator" has helped me personally.
However, I would still liked to have been one of those scientists visited by the aliens.
Until then, i'll keep teaching Chemistry in my retirement.

As the first Supreme Court Justice of the United States said, what's not in the U.S. Constitution then you turn to "The Law of Nations." Guess what ? I bet the answer is in there.
 
You guys and generations to come are already being owned with the huge debts regardless of any right to a job.
 
But the real question is, do employers have a right to employees? :lol:

No they do not. If they did, that would mean the employees have no freedom to seek other employers or means of employment. If an "employer" has the right to an "employee" that is by definition slavery.
 
No, you don't have a right to a job. You earn that position somehow, but you are not guaranteed a job.

I'll give that an emphatic no.

The way they define it, that it is OWED to you, no. Emphatically no.

Do you have the freedom to seek and procure employment? Yes.

This.
 
Hmmmm, I'm a bit of a constitutional purist and I don't believe anyone has a right right to a job, but I'm not sure how trying to guarantee one as a right would violate the Constitution.

I don't see how it could be declared a right, as it obligates someone else to hire you, regardless of your fitness for a job. As an extreme example, suppose that a profoundly retarded individual claimed that he has a right to a job. Who is going to hire him, and if someone IS required to hire him, it would be an infringement of the business owner's rights.
 
No, you don't. But you should. It's stupid and self-defeating that we don't guarantee people employment. Instead we make people hunt down work and compete for jobs, and then shame them when they don't have one. And use their desperation to keep wages and benefits down. We're all poorer because we don't do this.

What exactly do you define as a right? I think that a workers' corps may be a good idea given that the work they do is actually productive and pays a reasonable market wage. But that is simply making it easier for them to get a job. Its not forcing employers to keep them on payroll against their whim and its not guaranteeing them employment regardless of how good/bad of an employee they are. That's just stupid.
 
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