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1 posted on 07/03/2010 10:34:33 AM PDT by AJKauf
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According to a story in the New York Times, many jobs, even in this recessive economy, go unfilled because employers can’t find applicants with the skills to perform them....

Offer more money and soneone will find the skills. I would bet that they interview qualified candidates who exit laughing when they hear the offered wages.

2 posted on 07/03/2010 10:52:12 AM PDT by magslinger (If recycling makes cents as well as sense, I am all for it.)
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Try to find someone who can do math at a 9th grade or higher level.

You'll be looking for a long time.

Need someone who can solve a second order differential equation?

Good luck. Those 4000 Americans are already employed, mostly teaching math at universities.

I can imagine 3 generations from now, when our descendants come across a mothballed Atlas V booster in the ruins of a former Florida launch center, and pointing to it as proof that super-advanced aliens visited earth in the past.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

6 posted on 07/03/2010 11:07:47 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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bump


17 posted on 07/03/2010 12:15:21 PM PDT by VOA
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I think our expectations are too damned high in this country. all of a sudden you have to have a college degree to do ANYTHING! even when the job shouldn’t require one!

I mean for god sake! A receptionist , answering phones all of a sudden needs a degree! And it doesn’t pay the kind of pay that a college educated person would require.

There should always be jobs out there for people who didn’t go to college but have intelligence and skills earned with experience.


27 posted on 07/03/2010 10:32:35 PM PDT by annelizly
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What’s left out of free-market equations is quality of life. (Because it’s very difficult to quantify, for one thing).

There are hundreds of millions of people who would be ecstatic at earning the US minimum wage. Millions who don’t have electricity, running water, plumbing, etc.

So free-market wage pressure is down.


31 posted on 07/04/2010 5:54:25 AM PDT by P.O.E. ("Danger is My Beer" - Rev. Dr. Fred Lane)
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