Aarrrghhh...

[cthulu2016]

Last edited Mon Feb 13, 2012, 03:29 PM - Edit history (2)

President in the TV machine saying a lot of good things, but also laying out a familiar bizarre and infuriating argument that all politicians engage in.

We have millions of job openings and millions of unemployed. Employers tell me they cannot find tech workers with the right qualifications.

Aaaarrrrggghhhh!

Um, mister President... those employers are not really saying that. They are saying "we cannot find tech workers with the right qualifications who are interested in accepting what we feel like paying them."

The current jobs problem in America is not due to mis-matched skills.

This is easy to prove... something happened in late 2008 that led to rocketing unemployment. What was it that happened? Was it an amnesia ray from space that caused millions of people to forget the job skills they had the previous month? No. The economy collapsed. Period.


There are obviously many more tech workers than tech job openings. So the potential employees exist. Employers simply have to hire employees away from other companies by offering more pay. Duh.

So these employers who say they cannot find people can obviously find people, they are asking the president for help lowering those peoples wages.

[xchrom]

1. a few short years ago -- those workers had what it took.

now they don't -- that's what we are to believe.

[hedgehog]

2. Every tech worker who is unemployed/under employed

needs to contact the White House with this simple statement.

"Mr. President, I am a (fill in the blank) unable to find work in my field."

[unblock]

3. h1-b visa fraud is rampant. the "can't find american workers" claim is a joke in 99.9% of the cases

[cthulu2016]

4. yup

[Leopolds Ghost]

5. Typical...

Of course, the issue is larger than that: our elected officials do not get paid to criticize Wall Street.

White collar conservative flashing down the street -- waving his plastic finger at me -- Jimi Hendrix

[SalviaBlue]

6. K&R

[Evasporque]

7. right people or right salary...??

Flat out...many many many employers have under priced the cost of an experienced IT person.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

8. There's another problem too-

The 'Unemployed Need Not Apply' thing that's been going on. I imagine it's as bad in the tech field as anywhere, since the rationalization is that the skills of someone who's been out of work for a while will be eroded and/or out of date.

[kenny blankenship]

9. Was that Reagan or Obama?

Also sounds like either of the Bushlers.