Posted on 08/25/2014 6:26:20 AM PDT by shove_it
(Reuters) - Reginald Rounds was among those present at the Federal Reserve's high-flying monetary conference here, enjoying the chance to button hole two top officials of the U.S. central bank.
The St. Louis resident is neither an economist nor a central banker. He's a 57-year-old unemployed worker, who said he is trained in the green technology field and can't find a job.
He was among a group of activists who gathered on the sidelines of the Fed's annual symposium wearing green t-shirts with "What Recovery?" on the front and a chart depicting sluggish U.S. wage growth on the back.
"From the world where I reside, there is no recovery. We need a boost. We need a jump start," said Rounds. "The key is jobs creation."
The ten activists, most of whom were unemployed and seeking jobs, were sent as emissaries for a coalition of advocacy groups that has launched an unusual campaign from the left to press the U.S. central bank to keep monetary policy easy.
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1. “ trained in the green technology field and can’t find a job” Ya think?
2. they were sent as emissaries from advocacy groups. [funded by ...?]
3. they want jobs creation, meaning they get the job THEY want and ‘deserve’.
4. Mentioned nothing I saw about making themselves valuable to employers who HAVE slots to fill, or becoming a ‘job-starter’ themselves by starting a business in their avocation.
and ... who paid for them to be there, and how did THEY, of all people, get an audience?
‘He’s a 57-year-old unemployed worker, who said he is trained in the green technology field and can’t find a job.’
Sounds like an easily manipulated chronic whiner who voted dem and wants his share. Perhaps he should show up at the DNC convention this fall. Im sure they love to hear from him...not.
“who said he is trained in the green technology field and can’t find a job. “
He could get a job picking up dead bird carcasses under a wind farm.
Time to find a new field.
Many who can’t find a job are living by their wits, working for cash off “the grid”.
The government is just too intertwined with our lives now for anything to recover. Far more than it was in 1980.
Politicians won’t relinquish that power willingly.
It illustrates just how insane open borders and talk of amnesty is now.
Or in other words, they want more "free" federal "stimulus" dollars...
There are a (lot) of formerly American jobs, now being done in the Peoples Republic of China.
Bring back American jobs.
GOP stand up for American jobs.
That's because the "Green Idustry" is more about scamming government than it is about real action and there really isn't much in the way of jobs. Much of what is fed to the public is known as greenwashing which is used widely in product or business PR, but also in legislative maneuvering and grant funding.
Time for a bad back and SSA disability payments!
Indeed. They are solving the problem for the moment. Find a way. Adapt. Overcome. Improvise.
Been there. Made it through by NEVER giving up.
A fake industry with fake technology, duping yet another generation of young people to sink hundreds of thousands of dollars of their parents’ and taxpayers’ funds into a fake education ... for these FAKE JOBS!!!
We have done THIS already with fleecing kids, their parents and the taxpayer for degrees in Urban Studies, Womens’ Studies, etc.
What is that? Organizing protests against dark, black coal?
Me too back in the early 1980s when I was laid off. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I built a successful business and retired comfortably 13 years ago.
No doubt he was the beneficiary of a government-funded jobs training program of the sort that is always promoted by liberals as the solution to unemployment.
The only people who actually benefit from those programs are the people who run them.
“Like!” ;-)
What will federal officials do? Talk about it? No help there! Open a jobs fair. Watch the gripers run.
Unemployed from St. Louis but able to travel to Jackson Hole to protest?
“Is this a great country? Or what?”
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