Aarrrghhh... [View all]
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.
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