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3 reasons there's a labor shortage, according to Mitt Romney
newyahoo ^ | 10/20/2021 | Juliana Kaplan,Joseph Zeballos-Roig

Posted on 10/22/2021 7:26:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lying about its causes, obviously.


21 posted on 10/22/2021 7:50:37 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MNJohnnie

Wow—you’re missing the vaxx mandates too?


22 posted on 10/22/2021 7:51:16 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MNJohnnie

The mask mandates aren’t very helpful either.


23 posted on 10/22/2021 7:51:41 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: lee martell

Mitty only trash talks his own side. He never fights the Leftists on anything.

I wonder what his Freeper signon is?


24 posted on 10/22/2021 7:52:31 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Alberta's Child

A good point


25 posted on 10/22/2021 7:53:03 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Give people who work and produce something that extra $300 a week and see what happens. We are subsidizing the wrong thing and have been for years !


26 posted on 10/22/2021 7:54:41 AM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nothing of course. He’s part of the problem. Big wig senator now and just sits back collect a pay check.


27 posted on 10/22/2021 7:55:30 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: 9YearLurker

Rough draft part 2

There a large number of issues here.

Here are the issues that I can think of. I am sure others can come up with additional ones

Aging workforce.

Lots of people pulled the trigger during Covid and retired. We have an inverted age pyramid. More older people at the top fewer younger people entering the workforce. Aborting 62 million babies since Roe V Wade was decreed has an impact on this issue.

Spouses leaving the work force.

Lot of families, due to covid, have re-assessed the two income family model. Covid forced them to make adjustments. They decided now that the positive gains of having 1 parent at home off sets the 2nd income .

End of the 2 job economy.

I think people would be surprised how many workers work multiple jobs. So a tight labor market and growing opportunities at their primary job encourage them to quit their 2nd job

The rise of the gig economy.

Covid forced a lot of people into using home delivery services. 10s of millions of them found they liked using them. Companies were forced to look at jobs to decide what can be done at home. It be interesting study to find out how many workers left the work force to do gig work or work at home.

Worker burn out

After dragging the economy forward for 19 months at a frantic pace while a large segment of the population coasted good workers are burning out. The mandatory OT, the stress, seeing what they worked so hard to build buying less and less they are throwing in the towel. They saying “Maybe I will not makes as much money but I will enjoy my life more.

The Vac mandates

What is the impact of the vaccine mandates on people choosing to leave the workforce?

Excessive Government handouts

I believe this is overstated since the unemployment benefits were scaled back without a large jump in people returning to work. But being over stated does not mean they do not have an impact. Raising the food stamp monthly benefit and the increase in the Earned Income Tax credit are having an impact


28 posted on 10/22/2021 7:56:17 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: No.6

Out in the real world I see the nation going John Galt, increasingly refusing to play the whore to the insane would-be rulers


Managing for what you don’t want takes you no where. It leads to a French style revolution.

Lets be CLEAR on what we want, not what we don’t want.

Our Founding Fathers were very clear on the final goal. Very few know the original documents.

Just like this document that was lost and then found.

2Ch 34:14 While they were bringing out the money collected at the LORD’s Temple, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD that was written by Moses.

Just like the warning in Revelation: Go back to your first love, go back to the basics.


29 posted on 10/22/2021 7:56:19 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: MNJohnnie

You’re burying the lede with it down toward the bottom like that, but at least it’s in there!


30 posted on 10/22/2021 7:57:23 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Rough draft part 3

There a large number of issues here.

Here are the issues that I can think of. I am sure others can come up with additional ones

Aging workforce.

Lots of people pulled the trigger during Covid and retired. We have an inverted age pyramid. More older people at the top fewer younger people entering the workforce. Aborting 62 million babies since Roe V Wade was decreed has an impact on this issue.

Spouses leaving the work force.

Lot of families, due to covid, have re-assessed the two income family model. Covid forced them to make adjustments. They decided now that the positive gains of having 1 parent at home off sets the 2nd income .

End of the 2 job economy.

I think people would be surprised how many workers work multiple jobs. So a tight labor market and growing opportunities at their primary job encourage them to quit their 2nd job

The rise of the gig economy.

Covid forced a lot of people into using home delivery services. 10s of millions of them found they liked using them. Companies were forced to look at jobs to decide what can be done at home. It be interesting study to find out how many workers left the work force to do gig work or work at home.

Worker burn out

After dragging the economy forward for 19 months at a frantic pace while a large segment of the population coasted good workers are burning out. The mandatory OT, the stress, seeing what they worked so hard to build buying less and less they are throwing in the towel. They saying “Maybe I will not makes as much money but I will enjoy my life more.

The Mask and Vac mandates

What is the impact of the vaccine mandates on people choosing to leave the workforce? The mask mandate does have an impact. For example, my older brother left his job and went back to truck driving because he got fed up having to wear a mask all day at work

Excessive Government handouts

I believe this is overstated since the unemployment benefits were scaled back without a large jump in people returning to work. But being over stated does not mean they do not have an impact. Raising the food stamp monthly benefit and the increase in the Earned Income Tax credit are having an impact


31 posted on 10/22/2021 7:59:04 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Conclusion......This would not be happening under President Trump!!!!!


32 posted on 10/22/2021 8:02:51 AM PDT by ontap
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To: lee martell

Judging from his Massachusetts governorship he completely agrees with the deems!!!!


33 posted on 10/22/2021 8:04:14 AM PDT by ontap
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To: MNJohnnie

I wish my students were as responsive with their writing drafts!


34 posted on 10/22/2021 8:05:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Has everything to do with pandemic loans. Companies are listing jobs but not hiring so they keep favorable loan conditions. Follow the money. Government ‘help’ is to blame.


35 posted on 10/22/2021 8:09:01 AM PDT by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: Newbomb Turk

Trump was reducing government bureaucracy and regulations, IT WAS WORKING.


36 posted on 10/22/2021 8:15:22 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why not have this discussion with someone who really needs a job? This guy is so FOS. I know plenty of people who really need a job. Mitt is not one of them.


37 posted on 10/22/2021 8:24:07 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Track9

Exactly.

Their are nearly as many jobs available as it would seem.

Middle Class type jobs that you can support a family on usually have 200-300 applicants per job. That is hardly a sign of a robust economy.

Plus as been pointed out many people are making it in the Gig economy rather than in a crappy low paying job.


38 posted on 10/22/2021 8:28:34 AM PDT by crusher2013
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To: Yo-Yo

“So many companies are offering hiring bonuses to net hires, but nothing to their existing workforce, so the rebuffed workers are quitting and going elsewhere to collect the bonuses.”
Cha-ching we have a winner.
My employer is paying experienced workers $15>.
They can go across the freeway and make $20 stuffing frozen meat in boxes. Can’t find new employees. Pay increase for new employees only just drives away older employees making less.


39 posted on 10/22/2021 8:38:29 AM PDT by 9422WMR (45 1. Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: Fresh Wind

Sign makers are considered critical workers.


40 posted on 10/22/2021 8:46:31 AM PDT by pas
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