[lbryce]

This article makes for the perfect juxtaposition to the one immediately following right behind, where Obama has the unmitigated temerity to speak of better days of Economy, with or without an asterisk without the slightest sense of cynicism, the audacity of his mendacity is simply breath-taking in its grandiosity. For the very first time, as I see these two articles, bookends of each other, intricately intertwined, I get the surreal sense that what he is doing, saying, is deliberately, consciously making fools of us.

There's mo other way to explain it.

[sickoflibs]

As I said the other day this is a great example why employers want new immigrants to hire even with national high unemployment.

Out there is Western Maryland there are few jobs, no major industry and these people have few job skills too.

Here in Central Maryland the job market is booming and they are hiring immigrants by the tons.

Why?

Immigrant by definition means they moved. In this case move to the jobs (they come here for the public schools too) .
After time they settle and don’t want to move either. So employers may want more somewhere else, where the jobs are.

Those unemployed in Western Maryland wont move till they have to.

[TomGuy]

IIRC, about 20,000 applied for some 600 jobs at the new Walmart stores in the DC area a few weeks ago.

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Recall under Bush 2 and the jobs people won’t do: when a couple of meat processing plants were raided and illegals detained, several hundred ‘citizens’ showed up the next day to apply for openings. That happened in Nebraska and the Texas panhandle.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A story like that is the kind my grandparents told about the Great Depression. People walking thirty miles to apply for a job.

[cuban leaf]

There are high-skilled professional jobs that require college degrees and low-skilled service jobs for less educated workers, but the middle is getting squeezed.

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This is what I used to tell kids back in the late 1980’s:
If you can’t say one of these things as an adult, you will not be able to afford to own your own home:

1. You can’t teach someone off the street to do my job in a week or two.
2. I own my own business.
3. I’m in sales.
4. I inhereted significan wealth.

Thanks to unions (which I dispise), a lot of people were in the middle class, and sometimes the upper middle class even though they could not answer yes to any of those questions. Those days are long gone.

The scary part is that the only way they can come back, that is, the only way unskilled jobs will pay much in the future is if there is a researgence of unions. But even then, we are in a different world now. It may only cause jobs to run to the border.

What we need is a good war.

[NEPA]

I was at the state employment office today for a jobs seminar and found out that there are 300-600 applications for each job the employment office posts.

In the old days I could get laid off from one job and have another in a short time. Those days are gone.

Even the late Jimmy Carter/early Ronald Reagan days weren't this bad.

[Sacajaweau]

cuz to get unemployment, you must verify that you applied for a job. chances are slim that you will be picked.

[minnesota_bound]

1,600 MBA’s and PHD’s and assorted other skills ap[plying for any job as obama and the democrats and the republicans are on vacation.

[khelus]

There are high-skilled professional jobs that require college degrees and low-skilled service jobs for less educated workers, but the middle is getting squeezed.

High-skilled professional jobs are being eviscerated courtesy of sundry guest worker visas (H-1B's, L-1's, J-1s, etc.) and illegals in the form of visa over stays.

Low-skilled service jobs are being eviscerated courtesy of illegal aliens and guest workers.

There is no level of employment that has not suffered, at minimum partially, as a result of government tinkering with the job market. The government's methods of tinkering include flooding the country with illegals, guest workers, and off shoring jobs via so called 'free trade' agreements.