Worse Than the Depression: 1 in 6 Working Age Males Has No Job Under Obama

Gateway Pundit ^

[Eagles6]

"the hookup culture gives you access to women."

Or other guys, these days.

[NEPA]

Good for you. I hate the phrase “thinking outside the box” but its true, even in employment.
I struggled to find full time permanent work for 3 years after I got downsized from my job of 17 years. At 58 years old I got a CDL and a good steady job driving truck. I only did it out of desperation but it turns out I like it.

[Daffynition]

I used this post earlier today..

On talk radio I heard the program host say: “But, but there were 150K jobs created last month.”

The guest said: “Yeah, I know, I have three of them.”

{{Silence....break to commercial}} .... :)

[faithhopecharity]

its far worse than 1 in 6, too

far worse

a lot of the socalled employed can get just a few hours work a week... a lot of others are working jobs FAR beneath their training or experience levels, just to have something honest to do

and of course the feds deliberately distort the data seriously by tossing out any unemployed who can’t find a job in a few months looking.... which is maybe 90 percent of the unemployed

[Theodore R.]

Hoover signed Smoot-Hawley; Jack French Kemp put forth the view that it worsened the depression.

[clearcarbon]

Four years ago comrade obama worried Romney would be elected in 2012 and then be able to take credit for the economic recovery that obama had started. He probably thinks the same of Trump.

[itsahoot]

It was Smooooooooooot. :)

[itsahoot]

The guest said: “Yeah, I know, I have three of them.”

Did anyone say that would not even cover the number of illegals and refugees.

[Daffynition]

{{{crickets}}}

Really. They went to a commercial break, and came back with a different topic.

[fulltlt]

I am in the same boat as you. I am 63 and just last week
got my CDL. I am now driving a school bus. So far it’s ok.
The HS kids are zoned out zombies with cell phones and earbuds. The middle schoolers are mostly ok. They haven’t been totally programmed yet though. The grade school kids
are like a bunch of untrained puppies all yipping at the same time. Gives me something to do while collecting retirement social security.

[Edward.Fish]

That’s because there is less downside for men who are not successful anymore.

There's also significantly less upside to being successful (in the traditional sense) —

1. look at how both farming and contracting (building) have been so distorted that unless you're "too big to fail" (megafarms) or hiring illegals you'd struggle to turn a profit in a lot of areas in the US
2. look at how a lot of companies are scamming the H1B visa system (especially IT and programming)
3. look at how the (civil) court-system is set up stacked against men (ie divorce)
4. look at how screwed up the progressive tax system is

IMO, there's an underlying thread of commonality here: lack of justice.
Now, tell me, what could be more devastating for motivation [for successfulness] than to internalize the notion that effort is unrelated/uncorrelated to payoff?

[Laser_Ray]

Beat me to it. Out of the remaining 5 of those 6, EASILY 2 and possibly 3 of them are ‘employed’ with temp/gig/contract/etc ‘jobs’ with no benefits and crappy pay that a decade ago that wouldn’t even be worth calling a job.

Either that or they’re work that is literally a hair above slavery - you have to take any kind of mistreatment or threats every day, you can’t leave (or you’ll be homeless and starving in a month), can reduce or delay your paycheck or worst of all make your pay commission based, your not-so-supervisor can tell you to do nearly anything including actions that range from unethical to illegal, you can’t impeach or otherwise remove incompetent/abusive people in charge and you generally can’t complain, ever.

Try working at a job like that for a year and you’ll no longer wonder why jaded young Americans are thinking socialism is the cat’s pajamas. What they have now is so rotten they have very little to lose by trying something different or at least feel that way.

[faithhopecharity]

Understood. And a major reason they are unemployed or have such limited jobs is because of the socialism / anti- business/ over- tax /anti- jobs policies of the current socialistic occupant of our White House. So it would be a tragic irony if those already aggrieved by them were to vote for more of the same