Recycling Human Resources By Charles Dushek

 

The USA Needs to: “Recycle Human Resources” by Charles Dushek

 

All of this Thought-Process began during the desperation of the 2007 to 2009 Great Recession brought on by the reckless behaviors of the Financial Services Industry. During the period, thousands of large companies Lost Sales and panicked by reducing employee headcounts...primarily with older age vintage employees in their 50s and up....30 million were layed off or fired.

These devastated workers were largely still too young to go on Social Security or Qualify for Medicare Health Insurance.  The US Government did not Face this Enormous Labor Condition Crisis...it was generally focusing all its efforts and billions of dollars to rescue the US Banking and Mortgage Industries.

A potential solution for the middle-age unemployed workers....

Recycling Human Resources…Seniors Can Buy-Out Small Businesses

Charles Dushek, Phil Sweeney and Ernie Baker are the “Thought Leaders” of this project established to re-employ laid-off or fired senior age workers (Age 45 to Under 65) and employ them back into meaningful high-wage employment with health and welfare benefits, until the participants, can qualify by age or disability conditions for Social Security benefits and Medicare healthcare benefits. 

  

 

State of the Economy and WorkForce

The United States has unemployed and under-employed people at 30 million in 2020. That’s amazing, considering the total labor force at 165 million. Seniors have been fired or laid-off from their jobs primarily due to their age, in order to make way for the corporate hiring of younger, lower-wage cost employees in skilled jobs.  Covid-19 Pandemic has further contributed to growing unemployment.

 People age 45 and older are a valuable resource with work skills and managerial ability to be employed and add to the prosperity of the US economy. Higher employment levels of seniors create more gross income across the economy, and hence the financial means to help support/assist higher education opportunities for the youthful people coming into the workforce, behind our seniors after they attain age 65. 

Traditionally, manufacturing was the means by which many Americans made a living. Today, low-cost imports from developing world countries, like China, have displaced US manufacturing production and senior-age job opportunities. “Made in America” needs to be re-discovered.

 When touring France 10 years ago, it was near impossible to find China and Asian imported goods.  France’s nationalism spirit protects local manufacturing jobs security for their workforce. In the US, a Core Issue today is “how to achieve a more fully-employed worker economy over the next 10 years”.  The challenge is to design community private sector visions and plans for rebuilding the country’s work opportunities across the USA, especially for disenfranchised seniors that have lost their higher-paying jobs, before they have reached age 65 to qualify for Social Security and Medicare benefits. 

 Global Employment and Inequality Conditions

 Global economic and employee well-being is very unbalanced as large economies in Asia and especially Japan and China, do not promote “openness in imports” from other countries, like from the US.  However, it is becoming clear, like it or not, humans are reliant, on each other.  And for every human left behind outside the workforce, we are destroying our collective consciousness and life-style equalities. 

Global collective consciousness can be likened to a tablecloth made of many strands of fabric is woven together.  If the fabric unravels, the tablecloth is weakened, and employment balance is weakened globally across all major countries.

 

Washington’s geopolitical policy has been ineffective at promoting and correcting disparity in global employment in-equality conditions. China’s GDP is growing at 7% and recently near 10%, while the US and Europe have been near 2% growth.  A balance needs to be reset there in geopolitical initiatives.  We need a type a broader awareness and actions for more global employment equality and balance that the US Private Sector has no direct global influence over.  Global organizations need to address the job losses of capable seniors willing to be back to work for life-style sustaining wages (Not a Minimum Wage of $10-$15) and welfare benefits to help these workers be financially sustaining until age 65. Most advanced countries only have senior age welfare safety nets for workers past age 60s.

                            Continue the Economic Success in the U.S. 

 We have done well in the United States maintaining an excellent standard of living, in general.  Yet, much of the apparent prosperity is from growth in Government Services and Government Employment, not from absolute wage prosperity and senior jobs growth in the “private sectors” of the economy. 

 In 1985, the Government was 15% of the economy, now it’s 25%, and Government does not produce much in tangible value across the economy, it primarily “regulates and impedes” the private sector.  It is hard to turn that trend into reverse, even with many politicians in favor of a “smaller federal government”.  It is unlikely that the government will have the Guts and Self-interests desire to make itself smaller in scale compared to the whole of the economy.  If visions & actions of new US jobs, especially for seniors, are to be made, it must come from Visions & Plans & Actions from the private sector, and mainly from dedicated people in communities…this means a lot of grass root micro economic solutions that are jobs-creating.

                    Establish Local U.S Collective Community Efforts 
 

It is the responsibility of ethical and energetic people to put one foot in front of the other.

We can use for-profit commercial strategies and Social Enterprise Businesses to improve human and environmental well-being (Create new jobs in pollution abatement and recycling & reusing our waste).We cannot continue to overlook those left behind underemployed families and seniors, by laying the responsibility off on government. 

The government does not focus on “New On-Ramps” to career employment growth in the private sector.  They focus on “Programs of Dependency”…food stamps, 2-year unemployment benefits, excessive OSHA and mandated healthcare financial burdens on employers. The Government needs to “get more out of the way” of private job creation models, and offer more incentives that enable the private sector to find and employ its needed solutions. 

 By whatever power that sustains our lives, our collective consciousness is our responsibility. It’s amazing to us that we are not embracing this resource to empower ourselves and to enrich lives more at the Community-Level. We have become complacent, attempting to endow our state and federal government with this responsibility.

They do not “Get It”, so we have record-high Covid unemployment and under-employment of seniors as US jobs race offshore and are systemically eliminated by technology inroads.  It’s our citizen’s responsibility to use this collective connectivity to promote well-being for humanity and the environment across our communities.  The government regulates and retards, it does not Create anything. 

 How do we determine the direction, formalize mission goals and objectives?  We suggest through local grass-root processes we can develop our community mission, goals, and objectives, and the means to execute them.  We have been given this time and this space

Where did this idea of recycling human resources evolve?  It is through the collective conscious of Thought Leaders…like You and Us.  How do you build a house?  The classic answer is with a sound foundation; someone mentioned, “you must dig a hole first’.  We have dug the hole.  We have left many people behind, especially seniors and our economy is questionable at best.  How have we responded?  Think about it.  We are now conscious that we have a big elephant in the room…unemployment and underemployment of seniors and youth. Let’s unleash and rev-up our minds to create more jobs and more sustainable small businesses across our communities!

                                      One Foot Forward…The Ideas… 

 1.    We can Chair a working committee of diverse small business and economic talent to discuss the Vision.  What is that Vision?  How can communities be creative and cooperative across its citizenship (Absent Big Government) to be proactive in growing and sustaining more community-based small business? (A Small Business is defined as having less than 100 employees.)

 

2.    We can assemble economically justified visions and plans to encourage, nurture and support small businesses that create more local jobs?

 

3.    We can help non-profit organizations become expansive in “Social Enterprise Businesses” and create business revenue that creates jobs and adds to their humanitarian service capacity?

 

4.   We can attract the many thousands of Castaway unemployed in their 40s, 50s and early 60s to Onboard with us to have their skills and competencies assessed for finding “Best Fit” and reasonable paying jobs for them at Plus $20/hour?

 

5.    We can do good assessments of the skills and competencies of the managers and workers to sustain local small businesses?

 

6.    We can find local companies that are family-owned by near-retiring owners and seek friendly take-overs by talented teams of well-matched operating managers and workers to carry on and grow these businesses?

 

7.    We can gain the support and commitment of local municipalities to purchase their service and product needs from local small businesses within the same or at least adjacent community businesses?

 

8. We can establish a Metro-Wide E-Commerce Online Retailer Marketplace to compete better against AMAZON, Wal-Mart and 48 other Big-Retail brands that are now doing 53% of all US retail sales?

 

9.   We can entice local bankers to advise and help set up small business “Buyout and Start-Up” programs to grow and sustain more local businesses?

 

10.  We can integrate and Utilize specialized online business education resources like  Rangnekar Institute of Management Studies and Research(RIMSR) that offers over 100,000 special business and work skills online courses for certifications in “Best Business Practices and Operating Policies”?

 

11. We can liaison in Small Business Loans for buying out and starting up new local businesses?

 

12. We can interest Private Equity or Angel Investors to help us on the important “equity capitalization” of our firms that is needed for us to get access to SBA, Owner Carryback, and Bank financing plans?

 

If you are a person age 45 or over and are an “employment castaway”. Having lost a good-paying job, and desiring a return to the workforce to a good-paying job…We want you associated with RHR.

 

Would you like to be a “Player” with us and our visions?

 

Please give us your comments and ideas that support the initiatives and visions discussed above…

Charles (Chuck) Dushek, Phil Sweeney and Ernie Baker are Thought Leaders in bringing positive transformations in senior re-employment opportunities.  To know more about Phil Sweeney, Ernie Baker, and  Chuck Dushek please Contact Us:

 Chuck Dushek  at charlesjdushek@gmail.com  Call or Text 630-280-7510

Phil Sweeney at Phillip.Sweenet@sbcglobal.net  Call or Text  773-960-6922

Ernie Baker at  ErnieBaker63@yahoo.com   Call or Text  415-374-5375