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Factors Causing High Unemployment
Topic Started: Feb 17 2012, 07:55 PM (738 Views)
Chris
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tomdrobin
Feb 19 2012, 12:41 PM
Stoney
Feb 18 2012, 08:13 AM
Jobs are available. Its a matter of how bad someone wants to work. To Eric's point I'd say that every new person produces new work and new opportunities for work. They need food and shelter. They have desires beyond food and shelter.

But to get the manufacturing jobs back we're going to have to compete for those jobs. We can subsidize them for a period, but we'll run out of money to do that eventually. If we have people who can stay home and earn more than they can in the labor market we'll have people stay home. If we have people who won't work here for less than $30 an hour (plus benefits) and then limit productivity so more than are needed are hired and people overseas will more for a third of that (or less) we'll be sending jobs overseas.
For every minimum wage job out there in our area there are many applicants. Even places like McDonalds it's hard to get in if you don't have a lot of experience. I often hear, well they could just move to someplace where their is a boom. Where are they going to find the money for bus fare, or to eat, or a place to live until the 1st paycheck? For many it's not as easy as those armchairing the situation like to think.
That's a nice emotional appeal, telco, really draws on the heartstrings, short circuits rational thought, and makes one jump to social democratic government solutions.

Such solutions only create problems.
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I certainly know the situation in my area. And, know many unemployed people. Most want to work, but finding even a minimum wage job isn't easy. It's easy to make armchair judgements if you aren't involved.
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Some folks just haven't experienced real life. They usually have simplistic flippant solutions to complex problems..
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Probably location. There are plenty of entry levels jobs for young people in our area, good for starting out while still living at home to get a feel of what life has to offer without some formal or technical training and what life might require to meet needs which is an education in itself.

Probably for many my age, it was the military out of high school, which was also a great education in terms of self discipline and life expectancies. You weren't allowed to "sit back."
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Feb 19 2012, 01:39 PM
I certainly know the situation in my area. And, know many unemployed people. Most want to work, but finding even a minimum wage job isn't easy. It's easy to make armchair judgements if you aren't involved.
How would you know? I'm still waiting for a link to the want ads. How many are out shoveling snow or delivering pizzas?

I guess it makes you feel good to take money from people against their will and give it to people who don't need it. But the fact is that that is not charity and it does more harm, causes dependency, causes laziness, cause a loss of self pride, self worth.
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Feb 19 2012, 07:44 PM
I guess it makes you feel good to take money from people against their will and give it to people who don't need it. But the fact is that that is not charity and it does more harm, causes dependency, causes laziness, cause a loss of self pride, self worth.
Isn't that where we are now, Stoney?
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A lot of it is location as banan says. During the .com bust IT jobs virtually disappeared in San Antonio, while there were plenty in Dallas and Houston. And you either moved to where the work was or changed careers.
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