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Why Your Kid Can't Get A Job
Forbes.com ^ | March 29, 2013 | Michael S. Malone

Posted on 03/30/2013 9:48:37 AM PDT by giant sable

The Department of Labor estimates that some three million Americans with Bachelor degrees work in jobs that don’t require an education at all–janitors, barristas, bartenders and retail clerks.There are a lot of obvious reasons why junior is now living in your basement at age 25.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: application; bhoeconomy; employment; generationy; resume; youth
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To: TArcher
"To bee or not too bee, that is the ity bity question."
--Hamlet 3/1



181 posted on 03/31/2013 3:06:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Marie

“All of that section was under “Intelligence Operations Studies”. Cochise College by Ft. Huachuca offers these classes to help the MI soldiers to further their careers.”

Okay, Ft. Huachuca, that makes sense. The CT classes could be fun.


182 posted on 03/31/2013 4:19:47 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Elsie

“Which one’s your drawing hand”

lol


183 posted on 03/31/2013 6:11:28 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: dennisw

As I suspected - WE are paying these non-value-added fools to spread their ignorance to our own children. We should stop it.


184 posted on 03/31/2013 6:53:27 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: giant sable

In 1966 I worked in a gas station for fifty cents an hour. The summer before that I worked 7 days a week at a swimming pool and got paid five bucks.


185 posted on 03/31/2013 7:04:12 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: Flick Lives; stylin19a

Plus us old farts have this bad habit of showing up for work day after day, working past 5 p.m. and not taking sick days off . . .


186 posted on 03/31/2013 7:17:40 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: WVKayaker
BUT, those two are not equitable comparisons, as the entire cost of the car labor is UNION.

Actually, except for the "big 3", most cars are made with non union labor thanks to Reagan's foresight and protectionist policies in the 1980's. If he had not done that then no cars would be made in the USA. Which free traders would not object to anyway. You guys don't really care about the USA and are bottom line people. I believe in free trade WITHIN the 50 states, with foreigners, not so much. I guess I have a lot in common with President Washington.

Karl Marx was a Free Trader. Look it up.

187 posted on 03/31/2013 7:36:55 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Yes to the libertarian ideal of free trade within our borders. Free trade among our 50 states. The mistake of our post WW2 era is free trade between America and other nations that don’t play fair. Today this is complete anarchy. At least in the past we allowed allies such as Japan to decimate our automobiles and other industries. These days we let our enemies (like China) do it


188 posted on 03/31/2013 11:24:35 PM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing--- Joe Pine)
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To: central_va
Karl Marx was a Free Trader. Look it up.

You guys don't really care about the USA and are bottom line people.

So, in other words, you are a strict protectionist, willing to accept whatever you can find in the market, as long as it is made within our borders. You don't buy much, do you?

You also try to insult those of us who are realistic about modern life, and spend our money wisely. You must have an excess! As for trading with foreigners, we are all foreign somewhere! The "big three" are called that because they are BIG. They employ UNION WORKERS (as I said. Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, and all others from foreign soils have built plants here only to keep from paying ridiculous import costs, which the consumer is always the one paying. They also look for Right-to-work states. Price sells!

I am from the South (North Carolina), and despise dealing with "Yankees". There are exceptions to every rule, but the brashness and "get lost" attitude leaves me with little in common. I will not do business with them, for that reason.

I was a General Building Contractor in NC for years, and after dealing with a couple, I always priced myself out of the picture. Never say "no", but you can always get people to shop elsewhere.

FWIW, I am now moved to the Philippines. They are extremely protectionist here, but I can buy anything I want to, from anywhere in the world. Plus, it is a whole lot cheaper to live here without the unions fowling up the marketplace.

As for "looking up" anything, I could care less about your ideals. I live in a free country. I moved from one that is no longer so free (unless you want an Obamaphone or some free Obama Money!)!

As for your Marx crap, I give you a just reply!

"I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment" — George Washington

"I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty." -Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1785

189 posted on 04/01/2013 1:36:09 AM PDT by WVKayaker ("...once a bell is rung by a biased media, itÂ’s impossible to un-ring it."-Sarah Palin 11/7/12)
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To: WVKayaker
Tariffs in United States history have played important roles in trade policy, political debates and the nation's economic history. The 1st United States Congress, wanting a straightforward tax that was not too onerous and easy to collect, passed the Tariff of 1790.

Signed into law by President George Washington.

If you define a nation as being free as having open borders and free trade then remove all your doors and windows and be free.

190 posted on 04/01/2013 3:47:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: WVKayaker
Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, and all others from foreign soils have built plants here only to keep from paying ridiculous import costs, which the consumer is always the one paying.

Who did that?

191 posted on 04/01/2013 3:48:24 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: WVKayaker
FWIW, I am now moved to the Philippines. They are extremely protectionist here, but I can buy anything I want to, from anywhere in the world. Plus, it is a whole lot cheaper to live here without the unions fowling up the marketplace.

So Joe how much you pay for boom boom?

192 posted on 04/01/2013 3:49:22 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
So Joe how much you pay for boom boom?

Well, I now know the level of maturity I am dealing with... NONE!

You can whine all you want, but it will not change the realities of this world!

193 posted on 04/01/2013 4:00:15 AM PDT by WVKayaker ("...once a bell is rung by a biased media, itÂ’s impossible to un-ring it."-Sarah Palin 11/7/12)
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To: WVKayaker

Insults from an ex-pat Free Traitor do not sting.


194 posted on 04/01/2013 4:18:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Insults from an ex-pat Free Traitor do not sting.

Nor do your puerile attempts to ridicule and insult me!

I have some big shrimp to eat, so I will not be back to respond to your trivial bigotry! I know better than to argue with a troll!

195 posted on 04/01/2013 4:22:47 AM PDT by WVKayaker ("...once a bell is rung by a biased media, itÂ’s impossible to un-ring it."-Sarah Palin 11/7/12)
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To: WVKayaker

Enjoy the surrounded by squaller living round eye.


196 posted on 04/01/2013 4:32:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
FRiend (and I use the term extremely loosely), you have obviously not been out of the country for a while (or to Ormoc City, Leyte). I live in a 4 bedroom air conditioned house, with satellite tv, two bathrooms with hot water showers, with an ice maker in the reefer, and eat some fabulously fresh seafood as often as I want. I have neighbors with similar lifestyles and amenities.

Do all have it the same? Of course not, but then I am here as President of an NGO to try and bring up the standard of living for the poor here. My life is rich and full with God's love. My goal is not to please a troll like you. I just toy with the trash sometimes.

You bitch and bitch, but probably spend your time sucking down a brew and watching the tube. I admit, I am watching FoxNews now with steve, Gretchen, and Brian. Donald Trump was on earlier. It is one of my simple pleasures. It also happens to be almost 8pm here.

Your prior reference already tells me your mental state and lack of maturity (no matter your age) and also your ignorance of correct spelling (squaller/squalor) and language usage, allow me to say gracefully.

Get a life and get lost!

197 posted on 04/01/2013 4:55:48 AM PDT by WVKayaker ("...once a bell is rung by a biased media, itÂ’s impossible to un-ring it."-Sarah Palin 11/7/12)
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To: central_va; WVKayaker
Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, and all others from foreign soils have built plants here only to keep from paying ridiculous import costs, which the consumer is always the one paying.

How DARE they come up with ways to make their product cheaper to sell!!!

198 posted on 04/01/2013 5:16:47 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WVKayaker
Those people love you for your money.

I find the third world depressing after a while, could never live there long. I visited 20 or 30 third world countries while in the Navy. I lived in South Korea for a month, a relatively advanced third world country, and it was still depressing.

At 6 AM squaller/squalor is all the same.

199 posted on 04/01/2013 5:19:50 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Elsie
How DARE they come up with ways to make their product cheaper to sell!!!

Thank God Reagan was a protectionist.

200 posted on 04/01/2013 5:20:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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