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In reply to the discussion: OK, Explain This To Me Like I’m A Complete Idiot Part 9: [View all]TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)The education meme is just a ruse and a myth. It does not matter how much education you have the American business community is not interested in paying the worker for the value of that education. An they certainly do not want to hire Americans.
One example is that cities are hiring Chinese construction companies to build infrastructure. The rest they will sell off to foreign companies given the chanced.
As I said in a thread that I created, all they want is to hire contract labor and have NO obligation to the worker whatsoever. As an independent contractor the worker pays for all of his expenses that used to be called benefits. Those jobs have climbed astronomically since Ronald Reagan was elected. We have been profusely bleeding "living wage" jobs for over 30 years how. Elect the GOP and it will bee a tidal wave of jobs being sent overseas and eliminated and contracted. They will also eliminate more than a million government jobs at every level. Most will be privatized at 50% of the wages and NONE will have pensions.
The labor stats are distorted in that these stats do not take into account how many contract jobs or low value there are. A temporary or private employment agency who has a contract with a major employer has their severely reduced value job counted as a regular job. Most employment stats do not count the value of the job. Right now over 40% of the jobs and new jobs are "food stamp" jobs. If you are lucky to be full time you will earn enough to still qualify for food stamps.
For instance, when I worked at DOL the unemployment survey considered a person employed if they worked ONE hour in a given survey week. The UI rate is still calculated based on that same survey model. So underemployment, part time employment, day labor, and temporary are counted as jobs in the survey.
If we calculated the UI rate the same way it is done in many European countries our rate would be around 15%. Our underemployment rate is probably over 50%. And the UI rate does not count all workers who would seek work. People who have given up are not counted at all.
By and large the voters have been voting for this scenario for 30 plus years by voting for Republicans. Democrats are moving right because they are forced to by huge amounts of money and a now totally corrupted media. 90% plus is extreme right media nationwide at all levels even though they claim liberal bias.