President of the United States Joe Biden
Vice President of the United States, President of the Senat US Kamala Harris
44-President of the United States Barack Obama
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy
Senators and Representatives of the US Congress
Shuhratjon Ahmadjonov (Uzbek, born 1954)
Mailing address:
216 Tulip Dr.,
Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20877
E-mail:
havassh54@gmail.com ,
jiz54@mail.ru
Phone: 240-263-0683 (for messages)
July 30, 2024
UNEMPLOYED, FARMERS MARKETS AND ELECTIONS
APPEAL IN THE FORM OF AN OPEN LETTER
This is a proposal to develop markets, sharply reduce unemployment, obtain large incomes from farmers markets and from reducing the cost of unemployment benefits.
It is known that 1929-1939 was the Great Depression, that is, the world economic crisis. The Great Depression most severely affected the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and France. In 1929-1939, law enforcement agencies (FBI, police and others) insisted on the closure and liquidation of the farmers markets structure in the United States. It was in 1931 that the Central Market in Washington DC, one of the largest markets in the United States, was destroyed. Later, the Central Archives of the United States was built on the site of the Central Market (see [1]).
Years passed. The number of unemployed began to increase year after year. In May 2024, the national unemployment rate in the United States was about 6.65 million unemployed (see [2]).
There is a simple and reliable way to sharply reduce the number of unemployed people, and thereby stop the growth of the US national debt. To do this, it is necessary to recreate, to revive the farmers markets throughout the US.
Let me remind you: A farmers market is a collection of two or more farm vendors selling agricultural products directly to customers at a common, recurrent physical location. According to USDAs Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), from 1994 to 2019, the number of farmers markets rose from 1,755 to 8,771 in 2019, averaging growth of nearly 7 percent per year [3]
The farmers markets industry has seen revenue growth at an expected CAGR (Compound annual growth rate) of 7.5% over the five years to 2024, when revenue is set to reach $1.4 billion [4]
Unfortunately, existing farmers markets operate one or two days a week for 4-6 hours. Each farmer and his workers have to do a lot of work: they pack products into boxes and crates, put them in a truck, drive them to the place of sale, unload them from the truck, set up tents and counters, put products on the counters and start selling. After 4-6 hours, they must collect and pack the remaining products, load them into the truck, and drive to their farm. I have been selling the Street Sense newspaper at Dupont Circle Farmers Market and Eastern Farmers Market since 2012 on Saturday and Sunday. I have seen their hard work many times on each farmer market day.
In my proposal, farmers' markets operate seven days a week from morning until evening, like grocery stores. The farmer will have a permanent place of trade and premises. He will leave unsold products in his premises in the farmers market.
POSITIVE ADVANTAGES OF FARMERS' MARKETS
1. Millions of unemployed and part-time workers in the United States will be provided with full-time jobs.
2. Many farmers, as well as various small and medium-sized stores, can additionally sell their goods at the revived farmers markets.
3. One of the main problems is the sale of goods and products. Regular farmers markets create great opportunities for the sale of goods and products.
4. The emergence of additional sales outlets for millions of people will stimulate the production of more goods for the farmer market. Many current unemployed and part-time workers will participate in this work.
5. The unemployed will help with the transportation and sale of goods at the farmer market.
6. Currently, supermarkets in the United States buy only the best part of the crop from farmers. The middle and small part of the crop remains in the field. Farmers can sell this part of the crop through the farmer market, at reduced prices than in supermarkets.
7. The implementation of the "Revival of Farmers Markets" project at the first stage requires almost no expenses. The heads of districts and cities of the United States are required to allocate a convenient for citizens and sufficient area for the farmer market. In the future, based on the existing farmer market infrastructure, convenient farmer market buildings can and should be designed and built for sellers and buyers.
8. This project can be implemented in a short time in all cities and districts of the 50 US states and Washington, DC. Currently, on some days, often on Saturday and Sunday for 4-6 hours, tent trade is organized in cities and districts. It is necessary to allow such trade to be carried out daily from morning until evening, seven days a week (one day a month - Sanitary Day).
9. The revived farmers markets will not harm the existing system of grocery supermarkets in any way. Those citizens who want supermarket products can continue to buy at the supermarket.
10. The sales tax will go to the federal (state) treasury. This will enrich each state, and the United States as a whole.
11. Currently, a lot of money is spent from the US state budget to provide the unemployed with a living wage. Most of these costs will be saved.
There are other positive aspects of the project to revive the farmers markets called "The Farmer Market".
SOME IMPORTANT FACTS
1. For thousands of years, most farmers markets have been built on the following principle: medium and small shops with permanent sellers are built and operate at the edges of the market. In the middle of the market and outside there are hundreds and sometimes thousands of trading stalls that are not attached to anyone separately. Whoever came earlier has the right to take one of these stalls at his choice, pay a small tax for the provided stall for this one day and sell his goods. This is what ensures the freedom of farmer market trade. If the goods are food, that is, fruits, vegetables, etc., then the seller must obtain permission from the employees of the farmer market laboratory.
2. If officials begin to attach a certain stall to a certain seller, then the Farmers' Market will turn into the next big store. The store officials will manage the sellers at their own discretion and eventually kill the free farmers' market. As an example, I can give a short history of the Eastern Market in Washington, DC.
The first Eastern Market was one of three public marketplaces included in Pierre L'Enfant's (1754-1825) plan for the city, to supplement existing markets in Alexandria and Georgetown. The plan also called for a Center Market and a Western Market.
In 1805, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) issued a proclamation calling for Eastern Market to be set up at 7 th and L Streets SE, near the Navy Yard. The current Eastern Market was designed by Adolf Cluss and was in continuous operation as a public market from 1873 until April 30, 2007. [5]
The interior of the Eastern Market building was converted into a kind of store many years ago. For this purpose, counters were installed on both sides of the hall and permanent sellers were placed behind them. Thus, the Eastern Market was transformed into another large grocery store.
On Saturdays and Sundays, outside the Eastern Market building, from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm, farmers' market lines operate. They sell various fruits, products and goods.
Our task is to create conditions so that the Eastern Market also functions from morning to evening during seven days of the week as a farmers' market.
3. The US government spends many millions of dollars each year to pay unemployment benefits and the salaries of numerous government officials. This means that the US government feeds a portion of the population for many years. As a result, the US national debt as of July 29, 2024 was over $35 trillion 4 billion and continues to grow by billions of dollars daily. In terms of each US resident, there is a debt of over $103,829. [6]
44th President Barack Obama (1961), 45th President Donald Trump, 46th President Joe Biden said nothing about the state of the U.S. national debt in their annual addresses to the U.S. people.
Mr. Trump predicted in an April 3, 2016, interview with The Washington Post that he could rid the United States of its $19 trillion debt in two terms as president. At a campaign stop in Wausau, Wisconsin, he warned that the U.S. is "sitting on a bubble right now that's going to burst."[7]
Over the course of President Trumps four years in office, the gross national debt grew from $19.95 trillion to $27.75 trillion a $7.8 trillion increase (debt held by the public the more economically-meaningful measure of debt grew by $7.2 trillion over this period). [8]
Trump failed to reduce the national debt, but increased the economic bubble by $7.8 trillion during 2017-2021. President Joe Biden increased the economic bubble by $7.25 trillion during 2021-2024, and it is over $35 trillion as of today - July 30, 2024!
"The largest holders of U.S. government debt as of May 2024:
Japan - $1,128.3 billion;
China - $768.3 billion;
United Kingdom - $723.4 billion;
Luxembourg - $385.4 billion;
Canada - $354.5 billion." [9]
One day, a default may occur, that is, failure to pay interest or principal on debt obligations on time, and this large debt bubble will burst. The country and its 333 million people will be hit hard economically. The global economy will also be hit, since the gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States in 2022 was $25.46 trillion, which is about 15% of the world's GDP. [10]
4. For thousands of years, the people fed themselves and the government. Usually, the government does not feed the people. Those governments that tried to feed the people inevitably failed. This is evidenced by the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Bolshevik leadership of the Soviet Union forcibly created a collective farm system in the 1930s, and tried to provide the people with cheap bread. Later, the government was unable to provide the people with bread, and since 1963, it began buying millions of tons of grain from the United States. Ultimately, the Soviet Union, having the largest territory in the world, collapsed and disintegrated into 15 independent cuntries.
5. According to the World Bank, a country's public debt is considered problematic when it equals 77% of the country's annual GDP. The US public debt was 105.4 percent in 2019, and now - as of July 30, 2024, 137.4 percent of the US annual GDP [10]
The US has the largest external debt in the world. The US spends more than $300 billion a year on interest payments on its securities [11]. And the US public debt continues to grow.
A further increase in the US public debt poses a great danger to the country's citizens due to a possible default in a few years. After all, such an increase in public debt cannot last forever.
6. To reduce the national debt, ways should be found to reduce government spending. One of these ways is to revive the markets in the United States. This will provide a large part of the unemployed with jobs. They and their families will no longer receive assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), (SNAP formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides assistance with food purchases for people with low and no income.)
7. Today's unemployed will work in the markets and pay taxes. They will bring in billions of dollars in additional income to each state and country.
8. If we provide jobs for today's unemployed, most of them will have enough money to rent a house or apartment. As a result, the housing problem for millions of homeless people will be partially solved.
9. Some heads of law enforcement agencies find it very convenient to keep the majority of the American people under threat of dismissal and unemployment. Therefore, they will be against the restoration of farmers' markets in the USA.
10. The police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have hundreds of thousands of employees and staff positions due to the 6.65 million unemployed and 2.2 million people behind bars. There are many crimes committed due to unemployment in the United States.
The United States leads the world in the number of prisoners in absolute terms, with about 2.2 million people behind bars. Thats 25% of all prisoners on the planet (more than the 35 largest European countries combined, and 40% more than China), even though the U.S. population is only 5% of the worlds population (329 million people). Of these prisoners, about 71,000 are minors. The prison system costs U.S. taxpayers $80 billion annually. [12]
By finding jobs for the unemployed at farmers markets, we will significantly reduce the number of crimes and the number of people behind bars. This will significantly reduce the number of law enforcement officers. Some of them will move to market structures to ensure law and order and the safety of citizens in markets. As a result, we will save billions of dollars that are spent on maintaining the penitentiary system.
11. WHERE TO REVIVE THE CENTRAL MARKET? In the center of Washington there are old two-three-story buildings that have exhausted their internal resources and have no historical value. The owners of several dozen private two-three-story houses standing nearby should be offered new apartments in a multi-story building with all modern amenities. To do this, it is necessary to build one or two multi-story buildings to accommodate these families. Then demolish these dozens of two-three-story buildings and build a modern, beautiful, large market for residents and guests of the capital. It is necessary to provide a parking space for many cars or a multi-story garage near the Central Market.
12. To ensure market freedom, the following requirements must be met:
- some of the trading counters are free, that is, they are not assigned to someone separately;
- whoever came earlier has the right to occupy the counter of their choice and sell their goods.
13. The following organizational measures are appropriate:
- Adopt a separate program "Revival and support of ordinary markets" or simply "Market".
- Study the experience of various countries in organizing markets, production, delivery and sale of fruits, vegetables, products and goods in markets.
- Develop a list of recommendations for better organization of the market, including production, delivery and sale of fruits, vegetables, products and goods in markets.
14. The attitude of people in the markets is one of the real manifestations of civil society. Therefore, it is appropriate to prepare annual reports on the state of the markets in the US states and in the countries of the world.
15. Which of the leaders will lead and decide to recreate the markets in the US, and thereby provide work for the unemployed, there is such a high probability: he (she) will become the next Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
MY PROPOSALS
1. US President Joe Biden and US Vice President Camilla Harris, please take the initiative to recreate farmers' markets in the US.
2. US Vice President Camilla Harris, please introduce a new chapter called "
Market" into your election program, which will include a solution to the unemployment problem in the US. Your "Market" program will be supported and approved by the majority of US voters. Therefore, you and the US Democratic Party will win the elections with a large advantage on November 5, 2024 over Mr. Donald Trump and the US Republican Party, and you will become the 47th President of the US.
3. US Senators and Representatives of the Congress, please take the initiative to create farmers' markets in your states.
4. US citizens need to create initiative groups everywhere to recreate farmers' markets and unite in a people's movement "For the Farmer Market". And also vote in the November 2024 elections for those candidates who support the creation and development of farmers' markets in the United States.
5. 44-US President Mr. Barack Obama, please support the initiative to recreate farmers' markets in the United States and become the leader of the people's movement "For the Framer Market". This will be a worthy example for a person who holds the title of Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2009.
Citizens' meetings and rallies throughout the United States demanding the re-creation of farmers' markets will actually turn into support for the US Democratic Party. As a result, there is a high probability that the Democratic Party will win both the Presidential election and the US Congress.
The fathers of US democracy wrote this in the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. [13]
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. that to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted by Men, deriving their powers from the Consent of the Governed" [13]
So, the 6.5 million unemployed in the United States, including me, have every right to be happy. To secure these Rights, Governments are instituted by the citizens of the United States, deriving their powers from the Consent of the Governed. And let them take decisive action to restore Farmers' Markets and thus provide work for all the unemployed in the United States.
P.S. Uzbek-English translation programs, including
www.translate.google.com , translate poorly and inaccurately. Therefore, I wrote a complaint-statement in Russian and translated it into English using the
www.translate.google.com program. I apologize for any mistakes made during translation.
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LITERATURE
1. Center Market (1871-78) (20). English version. -
http://www.adolf-cluss.de/index.php?lang=en&topSub=washington&content=h&sub=3.5.20
2. Monthly number of unemployed persons in the United States from May 2022 to May 2024 (in millions, adjusted). - Unemployment level seasonally adjusted U.S. 2024 | Statista (
www.statista.com/statistics/193280/seasonally-adju...unemployed-persons-in-the-usa/ Jul 5, 2024).
In May 2024, the national unemployment level of the United States stood at about 6.65 million unemployed persons. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends. ( 2024 6,65 . , .)
3. Growth in the number of U.S. farmers markets slows in recent years ( ). - USDA ERS - Chart Detail (
www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=104402 2019. : 10 2022 .).
4. Farmers Markets in the US - Market Size, Industry Analysis, Trends and Forecasts (2024-2029) ( - , , (2024-2029 .)). - Farmers Markets in the US - Market Size, Industry Analysis, Trends and Forecasts (2024-2029)| IBISWorld (
www.ibisworld.com/united-states/market-research-re...y/#IndustryStatisticsAndTrends January 2024).
5. Eastern Market, Washington, D.C. Eastern Market, Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia (
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Market,_Washington,_D.C From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
6. US Debt Clock ( ). -
https://usdebtclock.org/
7. Trump: I'll eliminate U.S. debt by end of 2nd term by Jeremy Diamond
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/02/politics/donald-trump-national-debt/index.html (
www.edition.cnn.com April 3, 2016).
8. How Much Did President Trump Add to the Debt? - How Much Did President Trump Add to the Debt?-2024-01-10 (crfb.org) (
www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-did-president-trump-add-debt January 10, 2024).
9. $35 (The US national debt has exceeded $35 trillion for the first time in history). - $35 | (rbc.ru) (
www.quote.rbc.ru/news/article/66a776849a79478324217bbb July 29, 2024).
10. (The US economy). - (wikipedia.org) (
www.ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/_ ).
11. . : ? (GROMOV A. Life on Borrow: What is the US National Debt and Why is it Constantly Growing?) -
https://tass.ru/ekonomika/6109341 (
www.tass.ru/ekonomika/ 13.02.2019)
12. (List of countries by number of prisoners). - (wikipedia.org) (
www.ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/____ ).
13. Declaration of Independence: A Transcription. - Declaration of Independence: A Transcription | National Archives (
www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript America's Founding Documents. This page was last reviewed on July 3, 2024).
