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To: AJKauf
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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To: magslinger

The free market works with the labor market too. These greedy bastards don’t see that.


3 posted on 07/03/2010 10:57:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: magslinger

“...qualified candidates who exit laughing when they hear the offered wages.”

I wonder how many of them end up laughing all the way to the fry machine ?


4 posted on 07/03/2010 11:03:46 AM PDT by PLMerite (The FR clock is now three minutes fast.)
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To: magslinger
"I would bet that they interview qualified candidates who exit laughing when they hear the offered wages."

That's precisely the issue. The employer can't find workers with the skills they need AT A SALARY THEY WERE WILLING TO PAY!

They use this same hogwash when it comes time to justify H1B visas in the tech industry: We've have these two-dozen programming jobs (must be expert with .net, java AND cobol, BSEE, expert in 4 different development lifecycle methodolgies etc.)open for the last 6 months and are unable to fill them.

The part they DON'T mention is that these jobs require 12hr days and pay $26.50hr without benefits.

5 posted on 07/03/2010 11:04:04 AM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, Uss Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: magslinger

Our government-dominated “education” sector no longer educates despite its ever-increasing expenses; teachers and educators in the primary and secondary schools have devolved into glorified, overpaid babysitters who only intermittently give an occasional vestigial not to actual education. High schools decline to graduate more than one in four American teenagers domiciled in America; various colleges and universities ultimately graduate a quarter.

Of those high-school graduates who received the diploma credential this spring, however, how many actually understand algebra? Some public high schools still teach some (or even most) students well, thanks to dedicated teachers and academics-focused principals. Others, especially in the inner cities, offer very little education whatsoever, graduating teenagers who cannot read their diplomas (despite lacking disabilities like blindness). And in many high schools (and middle schools), students just attend sporadically to consistently, demonstrate minimal effort, and never master the subjects that reflect the titles of the classes, but take their credentials anyway.

Universities actually may prove worse at educating their “customers” despite the very high prices attached to their credentials. Governments provide or guarantee a considerable proportion of their budgets. But they scarcely compete on the education that they provide. Instead, universities often compete on the quality of their sports teams, recreation facilities, and social experiences with only a putative nod to vestigial academic excellence. In many departments, students may demonstrate minimal effort but still receive their credentials if they pay adequate tuition and fees. In others, indoctrination supplants education; students morph into dedicated communists rather than skilled, knowledgeable individuals capable of autonomy in a free society. In still others, the quality of instruction has devolved to the pitiable point where it does not confer education.

I could go onward and discuss how twelve years of diurnal incarceration at an institution distorts the mind and corrodes the soul. I once told my little sister that school is a compulsory penal institution for the crime of having been born (instead of the “wise choice” of killing her as an unborn baby). But I’ll note this: despite the demonstrably slowly failing government-dominated “education” sector, despite its voracious consumption of ever more tax dollars, despite its failure to improve results, our government has a cure: it will take vastly greater control over another sector it already almost dominates: health care. Look for slowly degrading quality and ever-escalating cost with ever more confiscatory taxes to eviscerate the rest of the economy, perhaps even enhancing demand for medicine of a quality that it only sporadically provides.

On the other hand, it is entirely possible that, after enduring their confiscatory burden of taxes and regulatory expenses (including government-imposed “fees” and “fines”), private companies cannot pay wages that allow an individual a greater income as an employee than the income that a professional welfare recipient, especially a skilled, hard working one, receives.


14 posted on 07/03/2010 12:08:22 PM PDT by dufekin (Name our lead enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Islamofascist terrorist dictator)
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To: Ping

Ping!

Maybe we need the DREAM act after all!
/sarc


24 posted on 07/03/2010 3:25:08 PM PDT by HiJinx (John 10:1 - He who enters not by the gate...)
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To: magslinger
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.

For sure. With 99 weeks, what's the hurry?

28 posted on 07/03/2010 10:40:22 PM PDT by cynwoody
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