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I already mentioned the illegal labor thing, thanks.And as for outsourcing, that falls under the heading of "something we'd have to regulate that rich people would find immoral."
I am not saying that I am having troubles! I have been working remotely for a company in Boston, and before that I worked for 4 years for another e-commerce company in AZ. I just see a lot of friends out there that are having troubles.
Totally agree with that point Dauntless1;During the Clinton administration they went to the "birth-death" model. It's really a way to cook the books at the Department of Labor. Instead of just taking old tax receipts and extrapolating forward -- the assumption is that for every mass layoff from a big company, a certain percentage of those people become "entrepreneurs" at a small company. Some months ALL the gains in employment are based on "mass layoffs" and assuming they knit sweaters at home.Unemployment ONLY tells you how many people are lucky enough to COLLECT Unemployment insurance -- AND it tells you a bit of smoke and mirrors that are totally made up.The big problem in Unemployment and Homelessness, really started during the Reagan era -- and was totally ignored.I could go on about solutions and other intentional policies that were designed to make Americans work more for less money and stay too busy to deal with it. People used to be able to protest, because they had free time and their job wouldn't disappear as a result. So many costs are being shifted from companies and infrastructure to citizens that we don't notice that TAXES are minor compared to the burden. People just look at "lower taxes" at the Federal level, and don't balance that with paying more for insurance, utilities from a single source monopolies, and that their school is holding a bake sale for books. Volume costs of infrastructure is always cheaper than everybody getting a water purifier individually.
Dauntless -As society evolves there are new things created by technology that didn't exist before that creates millions of new jobs. Everyone has a cell phone now, so there are a lot people now working in the cell phone industry. There are countless other examples.Hell there are now millions of people working in computers, that has paved the way for digg and the opportunity to for you to type in completely retarded comments.
Michigan was a practice run to see if the federal government could abandon large segments of the domestic population while pumping money into large corporations to move overseas. It worked so well they decided to see if they could just abandon whole cities after natural catastrophes, by using New Orleans as a test run. Face it you pay taxes to Washington D.C. and they piss it away overseas and buy crap from China to feed our soldiers. The entire world is insane.
dauntless1Jan 14, 2010
I already mentioned the illegal labor thing, thanks.And as for outsourcing, that falls under the heading of "something we'd have to regulate that rich people would find immoral."
cheezy321Jan 14, 2010
I am not saying that I am having troubles! I have been working remotely for a company in Boston, and before that I worked for 4 years for another e-commerce company in AZ. I just see a lot of friends out there that are having troubles.
vitriolandangstJan 14, 2010
Totally agree with that point Dauntless1;During the Clinton administration they went to the "birth-death" model. It's really a way to cook the books at the Department of Labor. Instead of just taking old tax receipts and extrapolating forward -- the assumption is that for every mass layoff from a big company, a certain percentage of those people become "entrepreneurs" at a small company. Some months ALL the gains in employment are based on "mass layoffs" and assuming they knit sweaters at home.Unemployment ONLY tells you how many people are lucky enough to COLLECT Unemployment insurance -- AND it tells you a bit of smoke and mirrors that are totally made up.The big problem in Unemployment and Homelessness, really started during the Reagan era -- and was totally ignored.I could go on about solutions and other intentional policies that were designed to make Americans work more for less money and stay too busy to deal with it. People used to be able to protest, because they had free time and their job wouldn't disappear as a result. So many costs are being shifted from companies and infrastructure to citizens that we don't notice that TAXES are minor compared to the burden. People just look at "lower taxes" at the Federal level, and don't balance that with paying more for insurance, utilities from a single source monopolies, and that their school is holding a bake sale for books. Volume costs of infrastructure is always cheaper than everybody getting a water purifier individually.
whorunbartertwnJan 14, 2010
Dauntless -As society evolves there are new things created by technology that didn't exist before that creates millions of new jobs. Everyone has a cell phone now, so there are a lot people now working in the cell phone industry. There are countless other examples.Hell there are now millions of people working in computers, that has paved the way for digg and the opportunity to for you to type in completely retarded comments.
hoodlum54Jan 14, 2010
Since when is Vermont abbreviated VE?
harinezumiJan 15, 2010
You can't have both for long.
dauntless1Jan 15, 2010
@whorunbartertwnMy data is easily found by tracking the research outputs of several institutions such as MIT. How about yours?
joe8packJan 23, 2010
Living large on government greenbacks, what happens when the dollar crashes and the government goes t**s up? Got ammo?
joe8packJan 23, 2010
Michigan was a practice run to see if the federal government could abandon large segments of the domestic population while pumping money into large corporations to move overseas. It worked so well they decided to see if they could just abandon whole cities after natural catastrophes, by using New Orleans as a test run. Face it you pay taxes to Washington D.C. and they piss it away overseas and buy crap from China to feed our soldiers. The entire world is insane.
wallstreetgreekMay 13, 2010
Wall Street Greek has been reporting on underemployment rate since long before this. It has continued to deteriorate and we estimate it at 17.1% in April. <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/business_finance/The_Sad_Reality_of_the_Labor_Market" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/business_finance/The_Sad_Reality_o ...</a>