A job creation plan

No government plan will be a solution for people who can't/won't do the majority of the things on my list.

And, if you're waiting for a government plan to help you find work, you're probably not the kind of person who will be helped by it.

 

Your list has nothing to do with the subject in hand.

It's not "How does little Johnny find a job?" but about "How do governments come up with economic plans to create jobs?"

 

YankeeFan,

Can you get me a job at the Plain Dealer?

I'll write you a thank-you note.

Promise.

Oh, I don't have any practical skills (I am a journalist) but I can compensate by drinking heavily.

 

My parents have been small business owners, so I think there's something to the point about the quality of workers.

At the same time, companies often don't invest in the quality people.

Maybe the newspaper business serves as a poor example of this, but a couple months ago I returned to work at the paper where I had my first job after college. I had started working there the first time in 2003. Three years later I got a job in a bigger market and left in good standing.

One closed paper, and a layoff from another paper later, I returned to my first stop. The offer that paper made me in June was less than what it offered me, if you adjust for inflation, in 2003. I told them that, and asked for more money. I actually thought I had a good argument; their offer didn't take my experience into account. But they wouldn't or couldn't budge, and I took it anyway because I was freelancing and fed up with call center-type jobs.

YF seems to make the common Republican assumption that if you are worthy, you will have a good job and be a financial success, therefore if you don't have those things you must not be worthy.

There might be fewer quality workers now, but, if so, I think they people have been shaped that way by a lot of factors. An artificially inflated sense of entitlement is probably one. But so the experience of seeing friends and family members getting treated badly at work.

Ultimately I think that if the business world invested more in America and its people, they would get better returns from them.

 

This.

There are plenty of people who have done exactly what YF recommends. And they still ended up on the unemployment line.

 

I think you are one smart individual, Mr. or Ms. J Staley.

 

I disagree. You would be shocked at the number of people who can sit across the table from you in an interview and assure you that taking a pre-employment drug test is not a problem. And then that's the last time you see them.

What people do to put good jobs at risk would make your head spin.

 

I thought the problem was that Job Creators (save us!) were frightened into paralysis by our MarxistLeninist Socialistical Communism President and his anti-economic policies to risk hiring anyone ever again.

At least that's what we've been told on every thread here.

 

It's almost like, and I say almost because I know it can't possibly be true, but it's almost like they don't actually want to give people jobs at all. But again, that can't possibly be true.

 

Man, if only people would dress better, Gannett wouldn't have to lay so many off.

 

Wolverines!

Job Creators!

 

I understand. But, since governments have never shown an ability to come up with an economic plan to create jobs, it's far better for people to spend their mental energy on their own situation and not hope for a government fix to the problem.

Are there examples of successful "jobs bills"?