Posted on 06/29/2016 3:44:14 AM PDT by george76
Edited on 06/29/2016 4:16:25 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Nearly half of U.S. workers consider themselves underemployed, according to a survey of more than 960,000 people by PayScale, an online provider of salary information.
Three-quarters of those who label themselves as such say they're not working in a job that uses their education and training. One quarter say they are working part time but want full-time work.
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It may sound callous when so many people can’t find ANY work, but I’m surprised how hard it is to find a second job (part-time, to supplement my full-time job). So many of the part-time jobs require availability for various shifts; they are designed for second jobs, but to be your ONLY job.
That’s the Transnational Progressive plan. Lower wages, expectations, and standard of living in the US and Europe until our work force can “compete” on the global labor market with China, India, and Latin America.
Remember that Progs are patient. They are willing to wait a generation for this to be fully realized. Every Prog you know is not a well-intentioned doofus. They are your mortal enemy! Every single one of them from your co-worker to your idiot college student daughter!
Educate the ones you can, but never ever “agree to disagree” with these people ....because Progs have patience.
I wonder how many of these underemployed will still vote for Clinton?
What would be the percentage of workers who think they should be paid more?
This is a bogus survey. Everyone thinks they are underpaid, overworked and over qualified
Well their carts in the last couple of months have been turned over in protest.
Are you sure about that?
>>Are you sure about that?
Yes. I’ve been studying the Progressive movement by reading their own words for more than 20 years. They’ve been saying this for a century.
The Progressives have received much of their funding from a relatively small group of very wealthy people over the years.
It is hardly a surprise that those very wealthy people benefit from cheap labor and open borders.
True, every word.
Three-quarters of those who label themselves as such say they’re not working in a job that uses their education and training.
They get a degree in social science. The get a job at a burger king and then cry about the fact that they are not able to utilize all of the useless education they obtained? Apparently the useless “education” did not prepare them for jobs that awaited someone with specific talents and education to fill them. Huh?
How about being educated in a field that has job opportunities? Did that ever dawn on them. A degree in political science does not qualify one for a job as an engineer.
Did these snowflakes ever think at all before they sought a degree? I know, a degree in “heavy thinking and little doing” is much more prestigious than a degree in law, engineering or some other field that actually has a need in society.
It is amazing how a college degree in many areas amounts to absolutely nothing other than the fact that you joined the “college club” and now are one of the elite of society.
So 94,000,000 out of work, and of those that are employed nearly half feel they are underemployed. But we are at full employment, the unemployment rate is 4.9%, the economy is booming, and Trump is down 12 points to Hillary. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
I’ve been retired 20 years and have all day to do whatever I want and in the past I left weekends for those that worked to do their leisurely things, shopping and such and stayed out of their way. Now there are MORE people during the week filling up the stores, beaches, and especially the roads that I wonder if ANYONE works anymore.
I would have to see historical information for this poll to make an assessment. But I would imagine that this was always the case as well. Is it the same now as it has always been? Or is it significantly worse?
102 million not employed if one includes the U-3 number.
122 full time jobs from 252 million adults.
If labor around the world is priced the same then we just become another input and have no chance to argue for higher wages.
Progs have supported unions which for all the bad they have done, did result in higher wages for some workers.
The enemy is not just the Prog, but the materialist whether left or rightwing.
We are humans. We are not just labor. We are not just consumers. The Chamber of Commerce and their ilk view us as just labor or just consumers depending on what line of bologna they are feeding the politicians.
The modern Prog movement has brought the Crony Capitalist and Globalist under their wing, or maybe it’s vice-versa. But the goals of each are fully compatible with each other. To the ideological Prog, cheap labor makes all people equal ( except for the Elites, of course). To the Crony Capitalist, cheap labor is low cost labor that easily exploited.
Transnational Progressivism is not right or left, as you say. It is the European model where right is nationalist socialism and left is internationalist socialism. They prefer the left, but they can use their capitalist allies to create conditions on the right that will lead nations to the left.
They all want a world where the human cattle are dependent on government for necessities and will do anything to make some extra money to buy luxuries (which include necessities that aren’t authorized by the government). They want you in a city with no ties to land or property. They want you mobile enough to pick up and chase after some work on a moments notice and when they discard you, they want you to accept it as your lot in life and move on peacefully. They want a world with no hope or future. Just bleak existence and then death.
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