[FreedomStar3028]

President doesn’t gotta work.

[Arm_Bears]

In my case, nobody seems terribly interested in hiring a 60-year old White, conservative, Christian.

[KC_Conspirator]

Because of the administrations economic policies. Thats the answer.

[backwoods-engineer]

They really don't know?

So many are on the dole, so they don't have to. And feminism has ensured that children aren't taken care of by their own mothers, causing double damage: the next generation of men are raised by single mothers, and women take the jobs the men used to have.

This country deserves every bit of wrath God brings down on it.

[Old Sarge]

Because it’s Bush’s Fault and you’re a racist, that’s why!

[Crucial]

The real question is what are the womwomen doing? Are they more savvy about the skills needed, more savvy about how to keep their jobs or is it the fact that they will take less for the same work?

[theBuckwheat]

Short answer: because in too many jurisdictions, not working gets sufficient “benefits”.

It turns out, despite what leftists say about capitalism, that a lot of people don’t want to keep earning more and more. They just want to earn enough, and even government “in-kind benefits” are a form of income.

After all, according to several sources such as the Heritage Foundation, the average poor person in the US lives quit well.

The following are facts about persons defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau as taken from various government reports:

80 percent of poor households have air conditioning. In 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.

92 percent of poor households have a microwave.
Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks.

Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite TV.

Two-thirds have at least one DVD player, and 70 percent have a VCR.

Half have a personal computer, and one in seven have two or more computers.

More than half of poor families with children have a video game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation.

43 percent have Internet access.

One-third have a wide-screen plasma or LCD TV.

One-fourth have a digital video recorder system, such as a TiVo.

see:

Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America’s Poor

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/09/understanding-poverty-in-the-united-states-surprising-facts-about-americas-poor

And just a few months ago:

Obama Pledges to Bring Broadband Internet to Poor Households

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/obama-pledges-bring-broadband-poor-communities-n392836

Place to live, food to eat, medical care, air conditioning in the summer, heat in the winter and high speed internet. Why work at all? Yes indeed. Why work at all?

[Iron Munro]

One reason - Because the federal government pays members of liberal victim groups for not working.

Another - Government rules and regulations have practically eliminated many entry level jobs or made them prohibitively expensive for employers.

[Noumenon]

A lot of people are now working as they say in Russia.

[tbw2]

This is the result of:
* discriminating against boys in school, seeing masculinity as toxic, so fewer finish high school and go on to college
* discriminating against young men in college admissions and doubling down on it by bias against them in scholarships, so that many who try drop out due to lack of funding
* last hired, first laid off, per federal diversity mandates at many government contractors, built into the contract and flowing down into HR policy
* some staying on the dole with SSDI received when the kid was classified as learning disabled and continues into adulthood
* many men working under the table, both as illegal immigrants and the incentives to make less to get more benefits

[kabar]

Immigration. We have a surplus of labor.

Government data collected in December 2014 show 18 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the United States who arrived in January 2000 or later. But only 9.3 million jobs were added over this time period. In addition, the native-born population 16 and older grew by 25.2 million. Because job growth has not come close to matching immigration and population growth, the share of Americans in the labor force has declined dramatically — a clear indication there is no labor shortage. Despite this, Congress is considering proposals to increase legal immigration even further; and during the last Congress the Senate actually passed the Schumer-Rubio bill (S.744), which would have doubled legal immigration and legalized illegal immigrants.1 Congress's disregard for the absorption capacity of the U.S. labor market has profound consequences for American workers.

[DungeonMaster]

They vote for a living, it’s really hard.

[9YearLurker]

A research analyst who didn’t have Word and Excel skills?

And the guy with $100K meds—wouldn’t that be covered under Obamacare, and wouldn’t he still be eligible for subsidies on it, since $15-18/hr wouldn’t put him at whatever times the poverty level the threshold is?

Since when did men decide it is more emasculating and shameful to take a job at what the market will bear—rather than not working at all?

If the men with criminal records can’t get hired, we should have government jobs for them of some sort.

[trebb]

Per Petula Clark - "It's a sign of the times"

Per Dylan - "The times they are a changin"

Society has degenerated where nothing embarrasses or humiliates even the most venal folks.

God said it would happen and it's only gonna get worse before Jesus comes back ...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Because hipster slacking is now cool. You can always find a woman online who is willing to sleep with you, so no need busting your hump to pay the bills to support a wife.

[bert]

knowing word and excel is sort of like being able to read and write and cipher........ just basic knowledge

the date cited is 1965, before women’s lib and the massive entry of women into the market. women displaced men

the retail banking business was taken over by women displacing all the men in that occupation for instance. earning EEo credit, black women displaced many black men in the work force . A capable woman was cheaper than a man and therefore preferable

[KC_Lion]

Ping for your Interest Megan Dear.

[ßuddaßudd]

I work, I make my wife work and earn more than me . . .
is that double dipping ?

[PATRIOT1876]

Not enough jobs.

Too many illegals.

Anti-Capitalists in Washington.

The EPA.

[Carthego delenda est]

“Men are dropping out of the labor force in large part because they can’t find positions that pay decently or they don’t have the education and skills to land employment, experts say.”

Of course having all the illegal invaders sucking up the jobs that typically don’t require having done 4yrs in one of those liberal indoctrination centers couldn’t possibly be part of the problem....