If you were wondering why both parties embrace immigration (no fence agendas, no real fights, etc)...this is the basic reason. The system for social security and taxes....wasn’t built for a declining population.
In age, Boomers range from Sarah Palin at 51 years of age, to Donald Trump, at age 69.
More and more seniors continue to work after they retire from long held jobs. Don’t know how they are counted or if they are. My wife and I are self-employed. I’m 68. Don’t think I’m counted as employed. Of course, she might challenge that designation.
As an industrial electrician of 30 years now, our department can't even find a qualified candidate to fill the four open spots we have. They tried hiring some out of the military because of cost sharing programs, but they couldn't even wire up a starter, motor, program or edit plc programs, hot wire a starter coil, etc....
They are also dangerous, so they cannot work alone on shift. Most manufacturing plants keep one electrician on shift at a time. That means you must work alone and know exactly what you are doing and what the hazards may be. Such people are becoming very scarce.
You know, if they’d hire American citizens, there might just be a tad few more jobs filled. You know, those millions of people not counted in the ridiculous unemployment number?
Just a few.
That’s great news for Obama. Now the unemployemnt numbers will look even better. I said “look.”
That’s great news for Obama. Now the unemployemnt numbers will look even better. Not. I said “look.”
By the logic of the left I am sure they view us boomers as a negative to both their dream system and their economic goals. We are dealing with people who believe that there is no afterlife and no judgement, by their lights what is the difference if they take us out. We are just a drag on their perfect world. Expect the worse.
There was some Brokebackridge weirdo here that got the zot that constanlty railed on Booomers as the reason he could not get a job regardless of him (by his accounting) being a rocket scientist among other amazing things.
Never a hint that maybe the problem was with he being am azzhole.
This article is all about forwarding the lies in the Narrative of the Obama job “miracle” - that the labor force is smaller by choice.
This week, Stockman released these two summary facts:
* “the number of non-farm labor hours utilized during the most recent quarter was only 1% higher than in the spring of 2000”
* “The number of breadwinner jobs—–full-time positions in energy and mining, construction, manufacturing, the white collar professions, business management and services, information technology, transportation/distribution and finance, insurance and real estate—-is still 1.7 million below the level of December 2007; in fact, it is still lower than it was at the turn of the century”
Good News! The unemployment rate is headed for negative numbers....
Total BS. More older people are working than ever before because they need the money. The work force is shrinking because people are not working. 42% Unemployment and the work force is shrinking? No, what is shrinking are the number of people who will work. This is what happens when you put a record number of people on welfare...they stop working!