[CSM]

Shouldn't the unemployed person be responsible to ensure that their skills match the available jobs? Or is it the corporation's responsibility to ensure that they can offer a specific job to a person with specific skills?

[Mears]

Sure it's up to the employee to have the skills to match the jobs. You aren't telling me that these call center jobs that are being outsourced couldn't find anyone here in the USA that have the correct skills.

Baloney!

[NormalGuy]

Sometimes, the unemployed's problem is attitude, not lack of skills. They won't take any job that would have them. They have marketable skills in proven technologies. But they refuse yesterday's technology and will only accept positions on the bleeding edge where a company can make no profit.

I could be a case in point. There are jobs in Chicagoland. But I don't want any of them. So I work 120 miles from home in a company that is killing funded projects faster than it is sending them to India because it cannot find enough people like me who will take the jobs available.

[beelzepug]

"Shouldn't the unemployed person be responsible to ensure that their skills match the available jobs?"

If it is only a matter of skills training, the companies can train their own workers right here in America more easily than they can train workers in India. It's all about larger profits at the expense of American jobs, plain and simple. Guess I'm a commie as well.