[beaureguard]

Boortz hits a homer again!

[TheGeezer]

Amen.

[smith288]

The jobs belong to the employers .. not the voters!

[FITZ]

You think this article is helpful? You think someone who is unemployed and about to lose his home to foreclosure will become convinced by something like this to vote Republican?

[StatesEnemy]

The jobs belong to the employers .. not to you!

And the COUNTRY belongs to US, not the Hyper-Capitalists.

[gonewt]

Fair enough.

But that also doesn't stop people like me from refusing to do business with companies (like Bank of America) who ruthlessly fire American workers and replace them with overseas, third-world people, claiming the need to "cut costs" while still paying upper-level folks obscene, multi-million dollar compensation.

I am not for government action. I *am* for people staying informed and, where appropriate, boycotting companies that operate unethically.

[Agnes Heep]

I've been saying this for a long, long time, and I like the way Rush Limbaugh stated it some time back: A job is created when someone has some work they need to have done and offers someone else money to do it. The job belongs to the employer, not the employee, and that idea springs from our notion of personal freedom. The socialist believes, on the other hand, that once a person takes a job he becomes a ward of the employer in perpetuity, with rights and demands on the employer far in excess of the actual worth of his labor.

[cripplecreek]

It didn't take me long to figure out that a disabled person has two choices. I could accept the crumbs govt. was willing to toss my way or i could find another way to earn my own living.

I ended up starting my own business from my garage. I learned small engine repair and took up cabinet making and began building wooden lawn furniture. I work out of my garage, I make my own hours.

Over the last two or three years I've even started hiring local teenagers to help me out after school. I can't pay them a great deal of money, but they get hands on experience to go with their career center training.

My wife and i will be just fine without govt. help.

[2banana]

People want employers to pay for health care, care for the environment, overtime, family leave, diversity, etc. but these same people will not buy a more expensive product which pays for these demands on employers

[Taliesan]

Democrats hate the laws of economics. They are so unlike the womb.

[The Mayor]

Your task in a free economy is to get out there and find some employer with a job who needs your skills ... and strike a deal.

Just try doing that in Buffalo! I lost my job nov 3rd, I have applied for, sent out resumes to every construction company in the area. The economy here sucks, plain and simple.
The demonrats and rinos have controlled new york for far to long, and I don't see any of the jobs that hitlery was to bring.
I am tempted to leave yet again to another state just to survive.

You think someone who is unemployed and about to lose his home to foreclosure will become convinced by something like this to vote Republican?

I will vote for Bush only because he is the lessor of two evils.
F'n demonrats will turn us over to the u.n. and both parties are doing their best to turn us into a third world nation.

[MacDorcha]

who was it that said "the business of America IS business" ? its a phrase many forget

[applemac_g4]

This entire article is nothing but a rant. The one valid sentence it contains is the following:

"Either develop a new set of job skills that are actually in demand, or adjust your pricing."

That sentence distills the present problem down to its essence: American workers are unwilling to adjust the price of their labor to third world levels and suffer the hit in standard of living that this would bring about. This, however, is what Bush and the corporations would like to see happen.

And never the twain shall meet. Apparently, responsible capitalism is not a subset of compassionate conservatism.

[crz]

Time for a depression in this country again. A severe depression where everyone gets clobbered.

[Cacique]

ping

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

What is pitiful is that the youth don't want to lift a finger to do anything. It is a VERY small percentage who will do as they are asked in school. The problem starts with parents at home who do NOT teach their children to do chores, etc. and do not back up school teachers/officials when they ask the children to do something. Consequences coming...

[biblewonk]

--snip-- Listen up. They're not your jobs! The jobs belong to the employers .. not to you! You have job skills and, presumably, a willingness to work.

I love this guy!

[driftless]

I know a few people who discount the idea of moving to where the jobs are. They like where they live, and they can't understand why low-skill/highpaying jobs don't come to our area. They think it's government's duty to provide them with jobs. One unskilled acquaintance just lost his unskilled highpaying job (the company moved to another part of the U.S.) and was moaning about it. It was pointed out to him that there were firms in the Twin Cities (about 150 miles away) offering jobs with pay equal to what he had been making to anyone who applied. He said he wasn't interested in moving. In short, people have to go to where the jobs are. Either be so skilled that companies seek you out, go into business for yourself, take the jobs that are available, or be prepared to move to where they will hire you.

[hchutch]

Take THAT, Lou Dobbs.

[kaylar]

If you do not have the particular set of job skills that an employer needs, of if you have priced your labor out of the marketplace, guess what? It's not the employer's fault. The fault lies with you.

American IT workers may have been the best...But they are not willing to live on $10,000-20,000 a year. And even if they were willing to do so, how can they,in virtually any part of the USA? Even in the rural midwest, those wages would not cover the normal living expenses-rent, food, car, utilities, emergency money...Not to mention the loans to pay back for college, where s/he learned the skills that are now too high for a labor market that includes the worst of the Third World.

Either develop a new set of job skills that are actually in demand, or adjust your pricing. The employer knows what he's looking for you. If you're not it .. it's your problem, not his.

Regardless of our "skill" level, the employer will prefer to outsource to people who want $10,000-20,000 a year-regardless of any fall off in quality that may result. Our skills and experience and knowledge are irrelevant-the CEOs will go for the cheapest worker.

Do you want companies to stop outsourcing IT jobs to India?

We have not yet begun tosee what a disasterous mistake outsourcing is. That she-dog who threatened to put confidential patient information online unless she was given a $10,000 bribe? I'll bet she's the tip of the iceberg. I wonder how many Americans are going to lose their credit-their savings-their identities, when the Third World helps itself to their financial data-and we've seen a ton of articles at FR re: financial data being outsourced-including IRS info.

Ditto for manufacturing.

This guy ends his screed with a WW IV reference...Does he ever stop to wonder just how we are going to be able to fight wars when our armaments, ammo, uniforms, etc, are being made by countries that hate us,including one that has threatened more than once to bomb LA?

...because you've made some pitiful jobs choices.

Like the "pitiful" decision to become a nurse-when native nurses are fired and Filipinas hired in their place at $7.00 an hour. Ditto doctors. Or the pitiful decision to become an accountant-when corporations are outsourcing their financial work. Or the pitiful decision to major in IT or CS-ditto. May I remind the author of this screed that those are the sort of jobs we were SUPPOSED to get when the factories went overseas? Good grief, there is NO degree we can get, no skills we can perfect, that cannot be done elsewhere for 1/10th the cost, NOT because we're "greedy" , but because the cost of living in this country-even the cheap sections-is high.The US government helps itself to 40% of the average taxpayer's earnings! Never mind housing, food, car payments, utilities....

People like this won't be happy till no one in this country can survive unless they're a hooker, drug dealer, nude dancer, or massage parlor girl-and what's to stop illegal aliens from doing THOSE jobs for less? OK, there's still cop, firefighter, prison guard, hotel and restaurant staff, cashier...But it should be remembered that some of those jobs are quota/AA jobs, and if you're the wrong color/gender for that area, you're SOL, and the remainder are more and more "reserved" for illegal aliens. We're "too proud and lazy" to do the jobs we were doing right up to the day they fired us and hired illegals (I could tell some real horror stories of what was done tol ocal-black and white workers at the poultry processing plants.) And smug SOBs like the author of this screed need to remember...even in your job seems safe and unoutsourceable (eg,lawyer), how does that help you if-because of the loss first of manufacturing jobs, then of customer service jobs, then of white collar/professional jobs-no one can afford to buy your services?