Posted on 07/27/2005 6:21:50 AM PDT by A. Pole
The June payroll jobs report did not receive much attention due to the July 4 holiday, but the depressing 21st century job performance of the U.S. economy continues unabated.
Only 144,000 private sector jobs were created, each one of which was in domestic services.
Fifty-six thousand jobs were created in professional and business services, about half of which are in administrative and waste services.
Thirty-eight thousand jobs were created in education and health services, almost all of which are in health care and social assistance.
Nineteen thousand jobs were created in leisure and hospitality, almost all of which are waitresses and bartenders.
Membership associations and organizations created 10,000 jobs, and repair and maintenance created 4,000 jobs.
Financial activities created 16,000 jobs.
This most certainly is not the labor market profile of a First World country, much less a superpower.
Where are the jobs for this year’s crop of engineering and science graduates?
U.S. manufacturing lost another 24,000 jobs in June. A country that doesn’t manufacture doesn’t need many engineers. And the few engineering jobs available go to foreigners.
Readers have sent me employment listings from U.S. software development firms. The listings are discriminatory against American citizens. One ad from a company in New Jersey that is a developer for many companies, including Oracle, specifies that the applicant must have a TN visa.
A TN or Trade NAFTA visa is what is given to Mexicans and Canadians who are willing to work in the United States at below prevailing wages.
Another ad from a software consulting company based in Omaha, Neb., specifies it wants software engineers who are H-1B transferees. What this means is that the firm is advertising for foreigners already in the United States who have H-1B work visas.
The reason the U.S. firms specify that they have employment opportunities only for foreigners who hold work visas is because the foreigners will work for less than the prevailing U.S. salary.
Gentle reader, when you read allegations that there is a shortage of engineers in America, necessitating the importation of foreigners to do the work, you are reading a bald-faced lie. If there were a shortage of American engineers, employers would not word their job listings to read that no American need apply and that they are offering jobs only to foreigners holding work visas.
What kind of country gives preference to foreigners over its own engineering graduates?
What kind of country destroys the job market for its own citizens?
How much longer will parents shell out $100,000 for a college education for a son or daughter who ends up employed as a bartender, waitress or temp?
It is funny.. The same people on this thread yell at Bush for increasing the size of the Government, yet they want the Government to "protect" our jobs.. That is calling for big Government if you ask me.. Can't have it both ways..
Just brilliant...
Thanks.
Despite the cuddly television ads and public relations, businesses by their very nature, are amoral (not to be confused with immoral). That's not to say that there are not good, nice decent people working in these businesses, but they exist for no other reason than to make money. If you want them to act in a moral fashion, then you pass a law that enforces behavior conforming to that slice of morality.
You can if you restore the original arrangement as it was from the beginning of USA. The magic word is tariffs - sales tax on imports.
So basically you want to control what jobs there are and how much people get paid and who can do them. Sounds like communism to me!
Get a government job. Can't beat the pay, job security, and those benefits and pensions the rest of us only dream of.
Business exist for one purpose and that is to provide a service... Business is not nor it should be a some kind of social agency...
Uh, not really. If you took your average business guy and said, "Hey, Mr. Business guy. Here's my idea, we don't provide any service or product, have no advertising budget, but people will give us money...what do you say, are you in?" He'd jump at the chance.
Businesses exist to make money. To do this they fill a niche by providing a service or product. Hopefully that service or product is of some social value, but it's not a requirement for a successful business.
The government says YES.
From the report Mr. Roperts misrepresented:
Professional and Business Services:
Architectural and Engineering Services: 1,334,300
employees, UP 76,000 from a year ago
My mistake.. However, they need to make a profit in order to stay around.. If they it goes under...
Yes, many of those jobs from the building boom. A huge percentage of our economy now relies on keeping the housing boom going. Unfortunately this is -- ending.
Capitalism is the easiest thing in the world. I am firmly convinced that it represents and nourishes some vital aspect of human nature.
The problem is, controlling it. Too much freedom in the market and we all fall apart too quickly. Too many restrictions and the same thing happens. That's the problem...
Ending? Where specifically?
Yeah baby...Marx rules.
Next.....
In the secondary markets where home sales have slowed. Then in the high dollar markets. It's a bubble, so it ends in a serious fashion when enough people say, "What the..." simultaneously.
"Professional and Business Services:
Architectural and Engineering Services: 1,334,300
employees, UP 76,000 from a year ago"
Ooooo...pencil-pushers, lawyers, H1B visa immigrant-filled jobs. One manufacturing job that can be converted to war production has more national worth than 10 of the above jobs. Assuming most of the increase isn't in temp jobs.
Patrone.
You may be right...
An "economist", scorned, just might be furious enough to lose his objectivity.
Actually...
that same June Employment report shows, on a separate line, "Construction" has 7,478,000 employees, UP 523,000 from 2004.
And last month's national sales figures show NO sign of a slowing real estate market. Local conditions may differ, of course...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.