[Opinionated Blowhard]

This has been a long time in coming, but has been accelerated under Obama. I know there are a lot of unemployed men looking for work and who want to work. But our culture has conditioned a lot of others to not care about working anymore. It started witht ever-expanding Welfare State giving men the ability to live while not working. Then the shame associated with not trying to find work was eliminated — in the 50s and 60s, if you were a man, you had to work and you tried your hardest to find a job. Now, not so much. A lot of men no longer view it as their place to earn a living and think its OK to sit on their asses basically doing nothing.

[cloudmountain]

This has been a long time in coming, but has been accelerated under Obama. I know there are a lot of unemployed men looking for work and who want to work. But our culture has conditioned a lot of others to not care about working anymore. It started witht ever-expanding Welfare State giving men the ability to live while not working. Then the shame associated with not trying to find work was eliminated — in the 50s and 60s, if you were a man, you had to work and you tried your hardest to find a job. Now, not so much. A lot of men no longer view it as their place to earn a living and think its OK to sit on their asses basically doing nothing.

So true and well put.

[kabar]

A lot of men no longer view it as their place to earn a living and think its OK to sit on their asses basically doing nothing.

So there are plenty of jobs, but people are just too lazy to fill them? If there is a shortage of labor, why are wages declining and not increasing?