Federal work guarantee

This article explores the topic. Since conservatives are also harping on lazy people getting benefits, then how about the government guarantees them a good paying job? More progressives are running on this plank in their overall platform, like Senators Gillibrand and Warren. Plus it provides competition for the private sector: "By making living-wage work available to anyone who wants it, the program would also establish a de facto wage floor, forcing private sector employers to match the kinds of wages, working conditions, and benefits available to workers through the public sector." 

Oh, I forgot, contrary to all their free enterprise, free market spin the corporations don't want that at all. You see, if the fed provides good jobs then the corps can't maintain their race to the bottom, forcing wages down and cutting benefits so that they can control workers with the only other choice, death by starvation.