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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
30. The End Of The Job
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 12:27 PM
Dec 2011

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.

du rec. nt xchrom Dec 2011 #1
because our system can't figure out how to profit enough privately from it and prefers to do nothing unblock Dec 2011 #2
I think one of their many cons is the "productivity" card . . . HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #7
productivity is good, IF there are better things for displaced workers to be doing. unblock Dec 2011 #9
They profit enough privately Aerows Dec 2011 #19
agreed. different definition of "enough". unblock Dec 2011 #20
the jobs are "created" outside the USA getdown Dec 2011 #3
The "more education" meme is a cop out. dawg Dec 2011 #4
+1000 nt abelenkpe Dec 2011 #8
Well said! Spazito Dec 2011 #10
Hee hee . . . here's a right scary graphic relating to underemployment - HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #12
Nice graphic. Where did you find it? -nt LiberalAndProud Dec 2011 #14
From this article . . . HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #17
+1 Edweird Dec 2011 #28
And while you're at it explain why no one in Congress is talking about climate change? lunatica Dec 2011 #5
Because a large chunk of them don't believe in it abelenkpe Dec 2011 #16
"don't believe in it" is a sad state of affairs in itself. HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #23
Because they busy raising campaign contributions. They have to set priorities, you know. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2011 #22
I have no answers but one piece of it has to be fear of leaving the present job, to start a company riderinthestorm Dec 2011 #6
I'm not sure, but I think that was another "Idiot" topic I've addressed in the past: HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #11
Employer-based health insurance is a chain keeping employees at jobs they'd like to leave. n/t Scuba Dec 2011 #24
Existing companies who wish to expand abelenkpe Dec 2011 #13
Who could turn down HoldenD Dec 2011 #15
Yes, and while they're indebted, they can't purchase/put off purchasing products. HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #18
Because the neocons and neoliberals combined their efforts to sell us out w "free trade" etc. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2011 #21
The answer is obvious quaker bill Dec 2011 #25
I think the point of these "Idiot" posts . . . . is that I want to hear the explanation from THEM. HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #26
Because of monopolies and mergers. fasttense Dec 2011 #27
Job creation was extraordinarily weak since 9/11 but it had already been that way for decades NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #29
Ever notice something else about Friedmanomics? HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #31
Leveraging is what Wall Street does NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #32
The End Of The Job TheMastersNemesis Dec 2011 #30
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