RE: Ever since Clinton walked into the Whitehouse they’ve methodically increased the number of people they list as “no longer in the workforce” which dramatically alters the numbers of unemployed they report.
So, you are in effect saying that the low unemployment rate we are seeing now under Trump’s policies are not really producing the conditions that create jobs?
I look forward to you posting something similar every time someone posts a thread inn FR touting how historically low unemployment is under this administration.
RE: crying out for workers and finding workers who can pass a drug test and/or have the equivalent of a ninth grade education are two different things, both of which have in large measure caused by corporations no longer caring about a US workforce because for fifty years they could just ship jobs overseas where the government would make sure they had what they wanted.
I don’t understand how not being able to pass a drug test in order to find employment is the fault of China. If they can’t pass a drug test now, how are they going to find employment even if those manufacturing jobs come back?
RE: That, in turn, means people can see by the time they’re fourteen that they’re on a dead end track if they aren’t in the top 10% of the class instead of facing the fact that they’ll have to work in a manufacturing job which requires that they be clean and able to meet a minimum standard.
Even as we speak, transportation companies are crying out for truck drivers. All they require is you be punctual, responsible, healthy and drug free and they’ll train you to drive a truck. I can give you a link with the details if you wish.
This is just one of them. There are jobs right now for electricians, HVAC workers, plumbers and many other skilled tradesman. You don’t need to be a t the top 10% of your class to learn these trade.
RE: ou obviously believe Americans are mostly stupid and incapable of competing with the rest of the world when the reality is that Americans aren’t walking Tootsie Roll Pop suckers who can’t see down the road a few years in their own lives.
I’m afraid it is you who think that Americans are too stupid to learn new skills and all they’re good for are assembling toys, appliances and the like and if they can’t find jobs doing these things, they’ll be depressed and then do drugs.
I don’t believe any BS. I am still waiting for you however, to convince me that many of these manufacturing jobs from clothing to toys to appliances which have moved overseas ( not necessarily to China ) are NECESSARY to be made here in the USA, and those who can’t find jobs doing these things can’t retool and learn new skills.
Let me ask you this — we have thousands of openings for truck drivers right now. Let’s say in 10 years, self driving trucks become a reality, are you going to then complain that this technology should be banned because they will cause mass unemployment in the trucking industry?
“Let me ask you this — we have thousands of openings for truck drivers right now. Let’s say in 10 years, self driving trucks become a reality, are you going to then complain that this technology should be banned because they will cause mass unemployment in the trucking industry?”
That will be ten years away ten years from now, too, although it is closer than net positive controlled fusion energy, which has been 20 years away for the last 60 years.