Immediate Profitable Employment for Most

Good "jobs" are available for most people who want them, but we have to refine jobs to "tasks" and get people who are unemployed and underemployed oriented to selling their services as part-time tasks rather than part-time or full-time "jobs". I have created a task marketplace, www.myclads.com (meaning, my classified advertisements dot com), for anyone to list for FREE the tasks (or goods) they wish to offer. The ads are simple keyword ads (such as "tutor quantum mechanics high school level" or "election campaign contributions software compliance NYS" or "organic farm - tomatoes, peas"). Prospective customers from the 25-mile area surrounding the advertisers town would search the website by inserting the purchasers ZIP code and performing a ZIP-Code radius search (say, 3.5 miles) for someone who will "tutor quantum mechanics".

In a typical town in NYS with a population of, say, 10,000, there may be more than a $100,000,000 in unused time each year for the town's underemployed and unemployed. If the town has 3,000 residents who are unemployed or underemployed to the extent of 33-1/3 hours per week (which means 100,000 hours per week), there would be 5,000,000 lost hours per year (of 50 weeks). At an assumed value of $30/hour, the town is losing $150,000,000 per year.

My goal (whether or not I become Attorney General) is to put as many of those hours to work as possible, for as many towns and villages in NY and the rest of the U.S. as possible.

The elected officials running the country and states probably have never met a payroll and have no idea about the obstacles facing small business. When NYS residents are unemployed or underemployed, they have the option of becoming self employed, as a small business (without any employees at the outset). Most of my issues for this 2010 Election are centered around creating prosperity for New York towns and villages and their residents. It is easier to create prosperity for a town or village than a large city. If the reforms I am pushing work out (as I am sure they will), cities will (hopefully) attempt to make the reforms work by adapting them to large cities. One way might be to create smaller political subdivisions with voting rights for residents and let the people decide what reforms they want to adopt.

In a small town, I (or a group of 10 residents working with me) can go door to door and get the residents to sign up for the FREE myclads.com listings. Then, the database can be advertised through low-cost local advertising to the 25-mile area surrounding the town (which is about 2,000 square miles) and bring in customers for the goods and services offered by the town's residents. These purchasers undoubtedly will want to join the website and get their own towns to adopt the reform of the TASK MARKETPLACE, and in a comparatively short period of time the nation can become fully employed, with no help from the federal or state governments - other than the watchful eye of the New York Attorney General, if I am elected.

Carl E. Person
Candidate for NYS Attorney General
(seeking the Libertarian Party nomination)