Posted on 10/06/2016 10:10:38 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
The "best and the brightest" in academe have been trying to unravel the Trump phenomenon for about as long as this election season has run. Martin Kich of Wright State University devotes about three blogs a week to the subject on the academe blog maintained by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
Here's a clue: You can only convince people that we have a good economy if they actually have jobs. A pair of scholars of fairly diverse backgrounds has figured this out: They are, of course, a minority in academe.
We have written about the phenomenon today in which more budding businesses fail than succeed. It turns out that we aren’t the only ones who noticed. "Nowadays, more businesses die each year than are started," Angelo Codevilla writes in The Claremont Review of Books. "In this century, all net additions in employment have come from the country’s 1,500 largest corporations."
Ah, but where are those jobs? "In the first decade of this century, U.S. multinationals shed 2.9 million U.S. jobs while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million," George Mason University law school professor Frank Buckley noted in a speech earlier this year at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D. C. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship.
"General Electric provides a striking example," he argued. "Jeffrey Immelt became the company’s CEO in 2001, with a mission to advance stock price. He did this in part by reducing GE's U.S. workforce by 34,000 jobs. During the same period, the company added 25,000 jobs overseas. Ironically, President Obama chose Immelt to head his Jobs Council."
AAUP is the professor labor union.
Irony can be so ironic.
>>>”General Electric provides a striking example,” he argued. “Jeffrey Immelt became the company’s CEO in 2001, with a mission to advance stock price. He did this in part by reducing GE’s U.S. workforce by 34,000 jobs. During the same period, the company added 25,000 jobs overseas. Ironically, President Obama chose Immelt to head his Jobs Council.”
Gawd, so funny... but so Obamaic!
Trumping Baffled Academics
It is really hard to see the real world form their ivory towers isn’t it. Their circle is so small that reality cannot make it in.
Academics are useless in a world where the majority of politicians are corrupt.
Public policy debates are useless when the participants are self-dealing pathological liars.
This is the problem with promulgating false statistics (which is what the US government does). People start making all of their decisions based on bad data.
In the field of General Semantics there is a saying — “The Map is not the Territory”.
This means that if you are walking across open country, following a map, and if you suddenly find yourself standing at a river 100 yards wide, you can go no further. The fact that this river does not show up on your map does not help you. The map is not the territory. The territory says that there is a river you cannot cross. The territory wins that argument, and the map loses.
Unemployment rate is less than 5%?
No one believes that except academics who read statistics all day long. Voters will let people know the lay of the land soon enough.
Professors have jobs, pretty much by definition. And fish don’t notice the water.
Yes, professors have jobs. They also have tenure and sabbaticals every 5 years or so, fully paid vacations with privileges.
Spoiled and so ignorant of how other people feel or are experiencing.
Until they are out of the water.
Or, by Extention to the profs. “Until they are out of a job”..
Like Pat Buchanan used to say: He (Bush I) promised millions of new jobs, but didn’t say they would be in Canton province”
Most academics, who have spent their entire lives in classrooms and have never in their lives had to deal with employment/unemployment, or even making a buck, simply cannot grasp what obama’s and hillary’s Venezuela-style economics means to the vast majority of folks - who have to pay bills and feed a family.
Professors, I know a few. Mostly over-educated social dweebs whose own intellectual superiority IS their meaning and touchstone in life. Their espoused opinions are set, and no new facts will ever make them change them. Admission of wrongness is never allowed.
BS. They see just fine, but are so dedicated to their dogma that simple logic doesn't register. They think they are ABOVE logic because their aforementioned dogma (leftist philosophy). Data that contradicts their dogma is thrown out. You see it across the disciplines. It's pathetic, especially coming from "scientists".
Kaine da KillerKlown kept screeching about 15MILLION jobs have been created!!! And they refuse to mention that millions of jobs have been lost here.
I am dubious of the creation claims and I do believe the largest job generator sector has been in hospitality: waiters, maids and cooks, etc.
But we have the lowest labor participation rate in 50years. Those that want a job sure do not have one....and there are plenty who are under-employed. Millenials too on massive amounts of debt for college degrees only to be working in the....hospitality industry.
Huge success story for dumbles to crow over..../s
yeah, they never give the net number
...”Elites in both parties scratch their heads when Trump talks about jobs. It never occurs to them that many people aren’t working.”...
I guess we can call this “the tenure news from inside the bubble.”
I’m a social science professor who supports Trump. Ask me anything! :)
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