The government should see that everyone, as he is trained up, he is working according to his quality and occupational duty.
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Aug 14, 2010]Employment Strategies
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- ROBERT B. REICH
Our Only Existing Jobs Program Is the Military -- an Insane Way to Keep Americans Employed
America's biggest -- and only major -- jobs program is the U.S. military.
Over 1,400,000 Americans are now on active duty; another 833,000 are in the reserves, many full time. Another 1,600,000 Americans work in companies that supply the military with everything from weapons to utensils. (I'm not even including all the foreign contractors employing non-US citizens.)
If we didn't have this giant military jobs program, the U.S. unemployment rate would be over 11.5 percent today instead of 9.5 percent. go to story
...Unless a child is trained according to his tendency, there is no possibility of his developing his particular spirit. It was the duty of the spiritual master or teacher to observe the psychological movement of a particular boy and thus train him in a particular occupational duty. Dhruva Maharaja, having already been trained in the kshatriya spirit, would not accept the brahminical philosophy. In America we have practical experience of this incompatibility of the brahminical and kshatriya temperaments. The American boys, who have simply been trained as shudras, are not at all fit to fight in battle. Therefore, when they are called to join the military, they refuse because they do not have kshatriya spirit. more
Reintroduce Varnashram Dharma
excerpt from evening darshan, Washington DC, July 8, 1976
PRABHUPADA: Nowadays democratic, if you send some shudras to act as kshatriyas, they cannot do it. You have got practical experience. In Vietnam, what happened?
PUSTA KRSNA: The American soldiers, they were simply taking intoxication, hunting after prostitutes and running from the enemy.
PRABHUPADA: And when they were attacked, they were running away. Because they are shudras. How they can fight? They are not trained up as kshatriyas. "Anyone who is unemployed, let him become a soldier" – but he cannot fight. That is not possible.
Neither this class of men can have good brain to give direction to the society. The democracy means anyone can go to the government, and because he's not kshatriya, his only business is how to get money so long he's on the post. Just like you did not like your President, Mr. Nixon. So that is the risk. If you keep the society in chaotic condition, any department – intellectual, administration, production – they'll be all topsy turvy, and there cannot be any peace in the world.
So this Vedic scheme, varnashrama, is a very important scheme. If possible it should be introduced and taken up very seriously. That is one of the items of Krishna consciousness movement, to reestablish the institution of varna and ashrama. Not by birth, but by qualification. Chatur-varnyam maya srishtam guna-karma-vibhagashah. [Bhagavad-gita 4.13]: "According to the three modes of material nature and the work associated with them, the four divisions of human society are created by Me..."] Guna-karma, by quality.
In India, the varnashrama is there, but it is not organized because the government does not take care. The government is imitating Western way of life – "There is no need of brahmana, there is no need of kshatriya, simply shudras." Everywhere this is the position, the shudra population, kalau shudra sambhavah. In this age everyone is a shudra.
So it doesn't matter, everyone is born shudra, but he should be trained up. Just like in our practical life we see that everyone is not born a scientist or engineer or lawyer. Everyone is born innocent, child, then he's trained up by the guardians. Similarly, there should be a training how to become brahmana, how to become kshatriya, how to become vaishya. And the government should see that everyone, as he is trained up, he is working according to his quality and occupational duty. Then there will be complete peace and harmony. That human society is perfect.