hey guys I know the US Economy is shrinking, but people are losing jobs, and they need to support their families. How do you think the US can create millions of jobs? Also, what would the workers do?
Invest in alternative energy infrastructure. Put full throttle on domestically-manufactured solar panels (along the highways for minimal environmental damage) and biofuel. Since these replace products currently being imported, this will reduce the trade deficit as well as reduce carbon and pollutants. I also favor nationalizing ailing corporations and rebuilding them rather than handing them a blank check. Some would call that socialist, but they would be wrong.
I like the idea with the solar panels. I wonder why they havent done that yet...? But those jobs dont take 5 million people. Another thing is the water sources. Many are becoming very polluted (Chesapeake Bay) How about some jobs in restoring water sources?
I was working on a job posting (yes the company I work for is growing and hiring) so I check to see what kind of job postings were out there already. I was shocked to see so many good jobs posted in a so called hard hit area. You mention the Chesepeake Bay, there are over 300 new jobs posted on Craigslist in Baltimore today. This seems to be the case in a lot of places I checked. Don't mindlessly repeat the "times are tough" garbage the media feeds you, look around and see what the job market really is.
Another thing to think about is where all the bailout money is going? Someone is making it. Simply creating jobs and creating workfare jobs to give people money isn't going to work. People need to work harder and improve their skills. To make the same $600 a week, people may have to work 60 hours instead of 40. An interesting factoid is that during the 1992 recession the unemployment rate was 4.7% for college educated people. Another thing to think about is that the military is having a hard time recruiting. If times were really tough, people would be lining up in front of recruiting stations trying to get into the military.
Certainly, the same principle can apply to other public need projects. The nice thing about energy is that there is a virtually infinite need for it, so there may indeed be five million jobs in the long run...especially if the US becomes a world leader in this area and other countries turn to us for their renewable energy needs. The biofuel industry could become as big as petroleum...and that's what made the sultans rich. @bogart: why won't workfare patch the economy until it recovers, if the jobs produce actual wealth in the form of energy?
You reminded me that the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department is advertising training and jobs on Laker's radio. Law enforcement in So Cal commonly pays in the six figure range with the best benefits around. In a sense, this hurts the economy through taxes and talent drain from the private sector but it certainly demonstrates that the job market is stronger than the available qualified candidates.
US government must keep americans' money for them and not for Israel. American people must fight the government that steel them and spend their money outside the country.
American big business has been importing cheap migrant labour for years, that must cease while so many people are unemployed and big business must be told if it can't find the workers to do their jobs they need to pay more money instead. The US also need to close the gap between rich and poor, many people don't have any disposable income and no disposable income means they don't shop which leads to recession and job losses.
Yes, I agree! Hell, half the great paying jobs in the IT department at Sprint are indians imported because they are cheaper and they know how to program. 500,000 workers are imported across America for high tech jobs each year. 500,000 per year times ten years is 5 MILLION tech jobs. You want to close the gap? Get an education! Close the borders! Tons of blue collar jobs that used to pay $20.00 / hour (40K per year) now pay $12.00 solely because of the cheap labor! I get emails every single day from recruiters looking to hire .NET programmers. Yes times are tough, but there is a way out. What we DON'T need is 600,000 more goverment jobs as Oblama has planned. While his heart is in the right place, government workers are paid with tax dollars. Government workers are never accountable to the people. Ever see a minority person get fired from a government job? You can't believe the documentation that it takes to fire a government worker. If you don't have the documented paper trail, you'll get sued for discrimination!
I thinks by not taking low price labor and spend more on increase community life is great idea. It already enough to spend all the money for "others" and focused more on alternative energy like biofuel.
You know, at least when it comes to the auto industry(and maybe others in the manufacturing sector) I've been leaning this way. I'm somewhat ashamed about it but I don't see how the auto industry can survive in a global economy. Even if the businesses were operating near maximum efficiency they are at a competitive disadvantage being in the US. It's another reason I'm leaning more towards universal health care. Because it takes burdens off of businesses. I watched the outgoing CEO of walmart on Charlie Rose last night and he's for universal health care. @1:50 : http://www.charlierose.com/view/clip/9975 full episode
they are already creating jobs, I work for the city and within the last six months they have hired 25% more staff in each department. but unfortunately for each opening so many people are applying and you would be surprised how educated some of them are. For example last week there was 5 new opening for a clerk,which pays, starting $14 perhour, but its parttime, Which is okay job for someone who is a student, but for that five position there was 170 people applying for it and most of them had bachelors and Masters. When I was looking at the applications it was so depressing that so many people with all these education applying for a job like that.
I've heard that Americans are going to India to work in call centers. There's a demand for programmers but people don't work hard. You hear people talking about education but programming is learned by spending long hours coding projects. Not paying a diploma mill $15,000 for some night classes that you don't study for.