A job creation plan

Of course. That way she can create tons of jobs. Everybody will have to work three jobs. What a country!

Then the corporate big wigs can rake in six-figure bonuses for reducing costs.

 

To be sure, this country needs more drunks and stoners!

 

You've latched on to this as the primary reason for high unemployment? There is a structural element to our unemployment numbers, but it's not the primary reason for those numbers.

 

Nope, unemployment is strictly the fault of the jobless, or that's what the Kochs and others funding tea party groups want the oppressed white middle class to think.

 

Oops. Fucked that one up.

Companies want to grow.

Employees are an investment. In some cases, a company can grow by investing money elsewhere -- automation, technology, outsourcing, etc.

But employees are still part of the equation. Too often, it's very hard to find employees worth investing in.

And, you don't have to take my word for it. Talk to business owners. Talk to hiring managers.

 

Hey rice is nutritious. Just because there's some mildew in it, well, that's natural ingredients too.

 

Coolies?

 

Outside of that typo, I could have written that list, myself.

Also wish (without pining for or requesting a shred of charity) that business/worker loyalty was
more of a two-way street than it is, now.

 

Yes I know your mantra. You've repeated it ad nauseam.

But businesses also want customers. It makes no sense to add staff if there are no customers. You have to address those issues first and foremost.

I agree with you that the structural aspect of unemployment must be addressed. But as a solution, it is slower than even infrastructure development because it involves re-education of adults and fundamental shifts in the education system to prepare future workforces for demand.

What impact will that have on unemployment in 4Q 2011 and going into 2012? Nadda, nothing. Not unless part of it includes stimulus for schools and financial incentives for unemployed workers to go back to school to acquire skills they currently lack...but that's your dreaded education spending and you're against that.

 

Describe the plan & I'll tell you if I'm for it or not.

Too often, it get's wasted.

Many of these schools do not achieve the stated goals of training people for current jobs.

 

It's not a matter of drafting a plan here, rather it's how would you achieve the goal otherwise? And even if you don't encourage education of those who lack it and relied completely on people doing it out of their own initiative, it's still a painfully slow process, again, slower than even infrastructure development (and I'm talking infrastructure development from the planning stage, not money to hasten existing projects).

 

At least those people in Tampa are learning jobs that can't be outsourced to India.