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The Devastation Of America's Working Class
After years of exposing, month after month, the truth about the US labor market - its conversion into a part-time (in 2010!), low-paying job market where Millennials refuse to work (as the job market reality is gruesome so instead they opt to load up on record amount of student loans) and where older Americans, instead of enjoying retirement are forced right back into the labor force leading to record numbers of workers over the age of 55 (thanks to ZIRP crushing the value of their savings and a refusing to participate in an HFT- and central-bank rigged stock market), the mainstream media, having grown tired of spinning the bullshit optimistic propaganda, has finally moved to the "tinfoil" side, and has done something it normally wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. Tell the truth.
Enter the NYT with a shocking dose of truthfulness, one which goes to show just one thing: how over the past decade, notwithstanding the tripling of the S&P from its post-Lehman lows on the back of $11 trillion in central bank liquidity, America's working class has been not only skewed beyond recognition, but is now absolutely devastated. And all thanks to the Federal Reserve skewing the value of money so much that those who should be working aren't, and those who should be retiring, are serving you Starbucks.
Here are the facts, long overdue but facts nonetheless, from the NYT:
- At every age, the chances of not working have changed in the last 15 years.
- Teenagers are far more likely not to work.
- Older people are retiring later and working more.
- In the late 1960s, almost all men between the ages of 25 and 54 went to work. Only about 5 out of every 100 did not have a job in any given week. By 2000, this figure had more than doubled, to 11 out of every 100 men. This year, it’s 16.
- About 13 percent of the increase in prime-age nonworkers, including a substantial fraction of the younger ones, comes among people who say they are in school.
- Much of the school-related rise in nonwork, at least since 2007, appears to be less about staying in school than it is about not being able to find part-time jobs (don't tell that to the trillion+ in student loans though).
- Some men in school say they would like to be working part time but they’ve given up looking for a job. Others may stop going to school entirely if they could find a job, or if the college wage premium were smaller.
- About 20 percent of the new nonworkers say they are disabled, a category whose numbers have risen particularly for workers above age 50.
And the really important part, the one that goes to the entire debate about the collapsing labor force. Bottom line: it's not because baby boomers are retiring (as we have shown time after time). In fact, quite the opposite:
- Among prime-age workers, early retirement has increased slightly since 2000. Far more drastic changes have occured among workers 55 and older, who have been doing the opposite and putting off retirement.
Of course, this being the liberal NYT, spin was once again unavoidable:
- The decline of traditional pension plans and rising education levels, which are associated with less physically demanding jobs, may both help explain why the elderly are working longer.
A token pretty chart that shows everything said above:
That's the NYT's version. Here is our far simpler chart that says all that and more.
And here, with a 2 year delay, is the NYT admitting what we said back in 2012 in "55 And Under? NoJob For You"
Some countries have developed policies that encourage older people to leave the labor force, so they do not “crowd out” younger workers. But studies across countries and time suggest that crowding-out may not actually be a problem. Economies do not appear to have a fixed number of jobs. When more older people are working, they are earning money that they will then spend in ways that may create more jobs for young people, for example. Even if this is the case, though, the rise of elderly employment in recent years has not provided enough of a lift to put more young people back to work.
And so on.
We won't waste your time on the rest (you can read it here The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind) for the simple reason that once again, we said all of the above and much more years in advance. That said we commend the mainstream media, especially those who are ideologically alligned with the current administration, for finally daring to tell the truth.
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Reinstate conscription, ASAP.
Better idea: All wars should be put to a popular vote. All who vote in favor of going to war must immediately report for basic training and proceed to head to the front lines. This includes any/all government officials who push for wars.
I'd la-la-love to see that happen.
> Some men in school say they would like to be working part time but they’ve given up looking for a job.
It used to be that if you didn't have a job, you didn't eat. Surprise that once you took that motivator away more and more people opt to not work.
"are forced right back into the labor force leading to record numbers of workers over the age of 55"
A bunch of people will really be pissed when women "over 55" end up working in strip clubs!
ADA was way out in front of this with mandated wheel chair ramps up to the dancer pole
welcome to the new slave class sheeple. Oh you doubt this is planned? hehehehe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21
Forget about 'a day late, and a dollar short.' For the NYT it's 2 years late, and a fe Tr. $$s short...
Interesting that the millenials are at fault for the job market they inherited ("refuse to work") while the author provides nothing but excuses for the boomers that cant retire because the rigged market screwed them (the same market that they helped rig and reaped the benefits from for decades).
Uh, dumb fuck... war HAS been put to a popular vote. You volunteer you have voted with your life and limb. It doesn't get any clearer or freer than that. Since Viet Nam, if you don't like war, just stay home.
True dat, + 1
It used to be that if you didn't have a job, you didn't eat. Surprise that once you took that motivator away more and more people opt to not work.
That's true, but the article points out:
There are about 10 million prime-age men who are not working, but there are only 4.8 million job openings for men and women of all ages
45 percent of men who said they had looked in the last year, large majorities said that to get a job they would be willing to work nights and weekends, start over in a new field, return to school or move to a new city.
Heads up zh'ers:
The poll found that 85 percent of prime-age men without jobs do not have bachelor’s degrees.
“I lost my sense of worth, you know what I mean?” Mr. Walsh said. “Somebody asks you ‘What do you do?’ and I would say, ‘I’m an electrician.'”
“But now I say nothing. I’m not an electrician anymore.”
Bleak stuff, but that's only going to get more common...
Yes, and that is what happens when crony capitalists are able to export and sell every factory out of the US and into China.
Yes, and that is what happens when crony capitalists are able to export and sell every factory out of the US and into China.
And why shouldn't they be able to? Crony or not, in a free society that doesn't care too much about the welfare of foreigners, companies should be able to send their manufacturing to whatever hell hole they wish as long as it's profitable.
Everyone who's looked at this since the dawn of time is aware that capitalism breaks down when it stops operating on a local / community benefit basis. When profits are derived in large part from labour arbitrage & operating in 'flexible' regulatory environments your population is in trouble. But until people recognize their livelihoods are ultimately based on their neighbours welfare, this will get worse. Easy to blame those at that top, but everyone is responsible. /rant
Make no mistake: The American middle class is in trouble.
The first decade of the 21st century produced two recessions and two “jobless recoveries,” and when it was over, the vast majority of Americans found themselves no better off than they were a quarter-century ago. Median income kept falling for several years, even after the Great Recession ended.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2014/12/12/why-americas-middle...
"crony capitalists are able to export and sell every factory out of the US and into China. And why shouldn't they be able to? Crony or not, in a free society that doesn't care too much about the welfare of foreigners, companies should be able to send their manufacturing to whatever hell hole they wish as long as it's profitable.
wtf?
Everyone who's looked at this since the dawn of time is aware that capitalism breaks down when it stops operating on a local / community benefit basis. When profits are derived in large part from labour arbitrage & operating in 'flexible' regulatory environments your population is in trouble. But until people recognize their livelihoods are ultimately based on their neighbours welfare, this will get worse. Easy to blame those at that top, but everyone is responsible."
This.
confusing little ole comment there JC
Isn't that what happens when corporate taxes become excessive? All costs including labor have to be considered to be reduced to offset the cost of government? Also, it would help if control of the company was returned to shareholders instead of gangster bankers.
IMHO, corporations should not be taxed beyond the local community. In other words, as usual, it is the Federal government that is the destroyer.
Youre referencing one part of the article where an ex-union employee is quoted. If you read the whole article, he has gotten fired from multiple jobs and has had an excuse for each one. It seems to me, the union used to cover up for his lazy, incompetent ass.
Lol... yeah the reason why employment has been eviscerated is because were giving people 100-200 a month for food stamps... sounds good
I also think all members of Congress should be required to do active tours of duty in the combat zones annually.
We can call them "Legislative Soldiers" and they can report back(if they survive) to both Congress and the American people what they have experienced first hand, and if this is really worth it.
I like it. And on the front line with the grunts.
After 55 it would be harder to carry that gear.
Fossils like Hatch and Pelosi would have to find a real job or go to retirement acres.
All the people have to do is NOT VOLUNTEER. War ends tomorrow.
Fuck yeah; and none of that hiding in the bunker bullshit. Make each of those pricks take point for a couple of patrols.
Send McCain and Feinstein first. I think there will be a lot of fragging in the ranks. Not fracking but fragging.
McShitStain already served you fucking moron.
Then that torture ravaged, brain damaged, poor excuse for a human being needs a reminder of war's horror you fucking moron (since you like to use the ad hominem).
simple fix...reinstate the draft with no EXEMPTIONS and peace will break out fucker
Yeah? Well that fucker should serve again because he did THIS:
http://www.topix.com/forum/who/cnn/TIPHLLITR99DU2OKV
He needs to make amends, not only for his mistakes but for every single person who DIES because of ISIS or whatever the hell they are called these days.
Front line that mofo...
to Freddie: lets not send McCain, he night be captured and squeel on his buddies.
Make the politicians recruit and pay for their troops with their own money. The most powerful Imperial Forces would be commanded by the likes of Kerry, Pelosi and Feinstein. CHARGE!
The wars could pretty much be eliminated if we eliminated Israel and the worldwide Jewish Rat population.
and we are attacked we push the corwards to the front? Or use them as collateral for hostages.
Of course the definition of war changes. Its all in the semantics. If what you say was implemented the definition of "front lines" would change to a desk in DC.
John 3:16
The youngsters need to work off some of those EBT Cheetos before they're fit to become cannon fodder.
When I "served" in the 70's I actually watched a very good technician get drummed out of the Marines for a weight problem. Today he would be classified as thin compared to the EBT Cheeto crowd.
Private Pyle got the same shit but he got even with gunny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzSsLiBPX38
Docuhebag gunny voted for Obama in real life like a dumb ass.
You Tube running army recruitment videos. Poor American kids. No jobs, no future just the chance to get blown up for banksters in some god forsaken place.
The Broder Plan
seriously. David Broder a few years back pitched the idea of going to war with iran as a means to give young people a job.
nothing amazes me anymore
"Reinstate conscription, ASAP."
Actually they will/are. It is called the ReadyReserve.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2485607/posts
They will probably have brown shirts as a uniform.
An American, not US subject.
And you better know your evangelical Christian rhetoric well: Forgive, but avenge. Love, but hate. Don't kill, send others to kill. Israel über alles.
ReadyReserve aka DHS/TSA
OT, but check out Gordon Duff speaking at the Damascus Conference on Terrorism! Holy shit does this guy have balls! Completely calling out the US Gov't and Israeli control over congress. John McCain gets tagged as the father of Al Nusra and ISIS. Great stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2_qmlKFVU&list=UUaMH8-gD-ZYyC93vY6GlnCQ
My biggest beef with John Brennan and the CIA isn't that they used torture (which is bad enough in it's own right).
It's that they spent billions fighting imaginary al Qaeda terrorists in every corner of the globe supposedly to protect the US. Thanks for nothing.
In the mean time, congress has been thoroughly usurped by a foreign power - Israel - which also wields undue influence in our judicial branch and the FBI. Worse of all, the CIA has failed to detect and failed to warn of the threat of Israeli influence in the senior Department of Defense ranks.
Therefore, the CIA has failed miserably to protect the U.S. constitution at its core. It's either gross negligence, utter incompetence or they, themselves, have been infiltrated by agents of Israel. We know the NSA has been owned by Israel for years. That makes our entire intelligence community part of the problem, not part of the solution.
People can cry about political influence in the intelligence community as much as they want. Nobody cares. History will remember that people like John Brennan were asleep at the God damn switch before the train went off the tracks. He sold out both the CIA and the USA to Zionist oligarchs - he's a filthy traitor to his country.
Gordon says some good things but he is still (like chomsky) a disinformation distributor leading the controlled oposition.
> Reinstate conscription, ASAP.
Be careful what you (maybe subconsciously) wish for. If Sergei Lavrov's correct re. "European future". you might be seeing your wish become reality soon enough.
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20141014/194055094/Lavrov-EU-Supported-Ukrainian-Party-of-War-Regardless-of-Their.html
Day late and a dollar short.
Fuck the bought and paid for MSM!
has the Smithsonian decided on what artifacts to put into its "middle class worker" exhibit?
Fuck the Smithsonian, they will teach future generations that the middle class never existed and people have always been poor.
They should just have the "curators" of the Holohoax museum run it. They're good at telling huge lies.
Yup. Those fuckers burn every skeleton in our/their closet (especially if it's over 8 feet tall). They tell a version of 'history' that has been cleansed of anything REAL.
Please tell me you are being sarcastic.
Why would Germany apologize for a hoax? What do they get out of it? Certainly not their gold..
For those that know about and understand the machinations and desires of Zionism and the Zionists:
"Feed and maintain the cow so long as you can milk the cow. Slaughter and eat the cow when the milk runs dry."
"Care, milk, slaughter, eat."
An American, not US subject.
Orwell warned us, with "Animal Farm." Some say that book was a warning about Zionism...
Traitorous Administration, from NAFTA to the present.
Traitorous Administration, from December 15, 1791 (Amendment X) to the present.
Why start at NAFTA? How about Nixon/Kissinger opening China and running a dagger through the heart of what was left of the gold standard?
Nixon? OK, but only if we include LBJ.
"The decline of traditional pension plans and rising education levels, which are associated with less physically demanding jobs, may both help explain why the elderly are working longer."
ROFLMAO! Which means there will be an impoverished and starving senior generation with framed PhD's, no pension, and Social Security garnished to pay off student loans!
that giant sucking sound has been ringing in my ears for years
CNBS hasnt thrown in the propaganda towel yet. The theme for the entire day is how great low oil prices are for consumers. Can't wait to tune in when the markets finally breaks to watch these charlatans squeal!
haven't watched cnbc in years
but i watched a lot in 2008
summer of 2008 Kudlow would take on all bears and how great things were ... didn't throw in the towel till september ... 10 months after recession started (NBER official arbiter doesn't make recession call till deep into or afterward)
Let's not be too sure lower oil prices won't have a positive effect. According to bears and ZH, high and low oil prices both destroy the world. One of those has to be wrong. Let's use some brain power here.
You may want to look in the mirror with that suggestion of using brain power.
What do you know about Stability and Boundary Conditions? How well did you perform in your Differential Equations class?
When all boundaries have been violated so that the Three, Four, and Five Sigma events are more common, currently, than what used to be within the norm, then the predictive modeling is no longer applicable as it no longer FUNCTIONS.
Furthermore a stable environment is required when building, or repairing, any structure, whether it is a building, or an economy.
Thus Oil Prices, when either too high, or too low, have VIOLATED THE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS which leads to INSTABILITY, which in turn leads to STRUCTURAL FAILURE and SUBSEQUENT COLLAPSE.
However the shallowness of your posts demonstrate your total lack of understanding of the RUDIMENTARY.
And since you lack the understanding of the rudimentary it is no surprise that you fail at understanding the depth of the DYNAMICS of the more complex Partial Differentials which are employed in the modeling.
Now you can be assured that mayybe, there might be just one in fifty, in the General Population, that may understand what I have authored. My wager is that more than one in fifty on this forum will understand it. It is a much elevated ratio here.
But I am certain that you do not. I do not even think that you can define functional. (And that makes this delivery even sweeter.)
SO TAKE A GOOD FUCKING LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
What a maroon!!! (Thanks Bugs)
"We unretired some folks."
'Millennials refuse to work'
Hey, that's a rerun... 'Blacks refuse to work'
We should all refuse to work "official" jobs since most of it goes to Jewish rats and their pets like niggers and wetbacks. I'm sick of it and I'm sick of their nanny-state tyranny.
"About 20 percent of the new nonworkers say they are disabled,..."
Where do I find the list of "doctors" who gladly rubber stamp Social Security Disability forms for able-bodied people? What does one get paid for not working while taking from others? Ahhh... the stress-free life of an Obama voter.
"Voting matters I'm a fucking retard"
- Stupid Creepy ass Dude
Exceptionally brilliant and lucid reply, sweetie.
(LOL! You can't make this stuff up!)
Don't you claim to be a rocket scientist?
...Talking about not making stuff up.
Faggot.
And for every "win" the lawyers are paid by the Social Security Admin.
to creepy: you know those commercials where some lawyer asks if you have been denied disability benefits? They receive approximately 25 percent of what is awarded to their clients. Gee I wonder if those lawyers have anything else in common besides a J.D. degree. Perhps they worship at the same facility. Maybe they have some common ancestry.
Fucking Baby Boomers........
The greatest generation I hear...
Hey fuck you. We baby boomers are considered and respected "consumers".
Aren't you a pig lover?
"Seriously, obey the law and shut the fuck up."
-This faggot above
baby Boomers, the generation of babies that blew up the united states. Never had a real day in reality land , "hey i worked my way through college and bought this house and car and had 6 kids with my job i got out of high school you lazy fucks go get a stiff handshake and tell a guy your an honest worker like i did"
Ya, most entitled generation ever. Can't wait till all their "investments" turn to ash. I'll be there to sell or barter their daughters for long pork.
Our daughters have their own kids now. You're probably one of them. Gotta Plan B?
birth controls for suckers, obama got our back , free phones and mo money for each one i get carrying my seed, no chance of work let the boomers raise em.
Whiney vagina boy, shut up and finish waxing my car. I can easily replace your non skilled ass with an illegal if you get to snippy.
You mean your spoiled princesses? I would never marry an American woman. 99% of them will lose their shit when the crash of our debt ridden, service based economy hits.
Do you have parents or are you a petri dish baby?
Now you know what happened to the baby thrown out with the bathwater.
Saved the money just like they said, then they took interest to zero and destroyed the value of the money,,, I'd recommend you take your anger to those that caused this, namely Auntie Yellen and the Bernak.
Oh, by the way,,, I work for a 'very large' telephone company. Half of the force (20-30,000) is now gone, many through retirement,,, To my knowledge they have not replaced one of those retired.
And hey, how did re-electing Obomber work out for you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ASlIUIW_uk
Fuck'en Dopes...
Good thing all those good paying oil jobs saved us.
Especially those shovel ready ones......Still waiting.
Before WWIII gets underway, will we all be entertained with Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon in a duet crooning "My Way"?...
....nonsense, I see green sprouts, sharts and shits everywhere...
do tell!(my favorite gay remark) if the nyt is trying to tell its formerly erudite(and wealthy) readership(the key to the old sat) something about the starving masses the setup is in for a cash drop. the tell is the "not enough jobs for old people to create young people jobs" argument. wtf! the old people are taking young people jobs because the millenials are useless. baby boomers are the last of the old school work ethic and our parents worked twice as hard as we do/did.
they have to have some rationale to present to the political class that will convince them a beggar nation is a good nation. let the cash spigot open.
The millenials are useless if they want to be. My son has his masters in engineering, bought a house cash, no more student loans bla bla fucking bla.
The truth is, YOU ARE WHEREVER YOU PUT YOURSELF.
He bitches about trying to help his comrades with his other businesses, those with DUI's. Ron White had nailed, you can't fix stupid.
If you want to be at the bottom of the barrel, then you can own that condition. Or give the cops in Ferguson a hard time and see what happens next.
You sound like a spoiled brat who has had a full-time job his entire life.
Student loan forgiveness (income-based repayment) was introduced in 2011, first time in history, due to millions defaulting on their loans. That has never happened before.
To chalk up what's going on to personal lack of motivation just makes you an ignorant prick.
edit: I don't know why I dignified a troll with a response. Won't do that again.
His lazy entitlement attitude is exactly why illegals do so well here. It's beneath little princesses like them to work hard. They've been told their whole life they were special little snowflakes. The truth must hurt.
I know people who started out with no college degree and started out doing dirty, sweaty work for low pay. They stubbornly kept at it for years until they proved their worth and gained skills. One is vice president of the company where he started at the bottom. Another stated a business and made millions.
Losers like this will never succeed like that.
Not having work is crippling the entire generation of white men. Believe it. The blacks are ok with it and the Mexicans are getting paid to move here. They are fine, trust me. It's the white guys who cannot move out of their mom's basement, that have to go wheedling to mom & pop for spending money, who don't have cash for the clothes and cars to attract women, who are finding the conditions here in sold-out ZOG'd out Amerika to be oppressive as Hell. No wonder they turn to medical marijuana, meth and riding skateboards around. It would suck being of HS or college age at this time in Amerikan history.
NYC and the left coast may be doing a little better but that is regional. It's flyover-Amerika that is suffering. Rant off.
It has nothing to do with race or region. The losers are sitting on their asses, leeching off of mom and making excuses. The winners found jobs, probably not the ideal job, but worked hard and moved up the ladder.
The losers are fucked for life. Even if the economy comes roaring back, nobody is going to hire a shit headed 35 year old with no work experience. The college degree spoils like lettuce after a year of inactivity.
The crash will wipe rhat smirk right off your face.
Talk about pessimism to the extreme.
At some point, those employers will all but have to.
We Third Worlded some folks and we're working on Third Worlding the rest of the 99%.
The day the MSM "tells the truth" is the day I shit in my hat.
when the MSM start speaking a little bit of truth, it means we are Fucked and something big is cooking around the corner
Here's one campaign promise Obama kept - "wealth redistribution" because he never said how the wealth would be redistributed
I think that 5.8% unemployment rate is missing a (1) in front of it.
"it was an accident"
insincerely,
The Syndicate
“America is bleeding herself dry so that corporate executives and shareholders can live the high life on bonuses and capital gains resulting from exploited foreign labor and the destruction of the American middle class.” – Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts, who often cites Tyler Durden, writes for those “who do not want to be deceived by lies” as does ZH.
Writes Roberts:
Everything we hear from the US government, the puppet governments of its vassal states, and the presstitute media is a lie. Truth is the declared enemy of the West. Those who try to tell the truth do so at cost to themselves. These costs can range from exclusion and slander to watch lists to prosecution and imprisonment. Brave people like Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, William Binney, and Bradley Manning have paid an extremely high price for standing up for truth against evil.
The question is: Is truth more powerful than the sword or is truth just an inconvenience and a threat to a reassuring life of delusion?
But lies and deception do serve a purpose, just as they did in the U.S.S.R. In his December 7 jobs report analysis, Robert nails it:
“In the 21st century ‘democratic’ Western policymakers have brought about an extraordinary concentration of income and wealth in elite hands, while subjecting the vast majority of Western populations to financial stress.
“The ladders of upward mobility have been taken down. A new aristocracy of wealth has been created along with a militarized police state to defend the aristocracy’s interests. A political-economic-social system has been created in the West in which only the elite have a stake.
“This stake is based on a house of cards. The utterly corrupt central banks of the West, a collection of gangsters, have kept the house of cards standing longer than I thought possible. But it will be a historical first if a house of cards stands forever. The derivatives exposures of four American banks exceed by several times the world GDP. There is no way these exposures are covered by the banks’ capital or by their depositors deposits.
“Wall Street and the presstitute media have manufactured the impression that all is well, and those fools driven by greed have gone along with the manufactured impression. But the facts are otherwise.”
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/12/07/another-fabricated-jobs-report-paul-craig-roberts/
So when do we turn isreal into a sheet of glass and begin hunting these rats all over the globe ????? Who wants to start a crowd funded new army ...now thats a worthwhile investment, the returns would literally be astronomical (disclaimer: critical thinking involved to reallize the power of the "investment/ return")
We devastated some folks.
I wish we could just get to the part where the rest of us can finally say, "We guillotined some folks."
We skewered a few folks.
The only time the corporateers and their hired legislators will hear the truth of their doomed scam is when Mr. Market tells them its over, like maybe starting now:
http://www.investing.com/indices/us-30-futures-advanced-chart
We demasculated a few folks.
But don't worry, we're not done yet. We are here to help.
we looted some goyim
Ah, to live up in the first cars of the Snow Piercer Train.
When "you" had that "boating accident" wherein you lost your "cargo" did you make an insurance claim or police report?
Truth is long, long gone in America. I found that out November 1963 when my father, a lifer Marine, said he didn't think it was a single shooter. Ol' dad grew up poor and knew how to shoot. The Marines taught him the rest...via Korea and Vietnam. So when "the dad", who KNOWS ALL is confused and upset I knew the truth was dead.
The daily NYSE game of catch-the-falling-drillpipe never even got started today, and here we are down 300. Hey Tyler - Mr. Market is starting to talk.
I know times are rough.. that's why I make 150 dollars a day working my ass on the corner with a sign that reads "To lazy to work, can't find job. need money for hookers and blow" people roll down their window and chunk $ at me laughing and yelling "yeah man, rock on, you da man, get sum, i like your style, hell yeah!!! etc We are screwed as a nation...lol
You're on a slippery slope. Next thing you know 'working my ass on the corner' will take on a whole new meaning...
Bullish ?
We currently have a bricklayer shortage in Western Australia. It's a great job for a young man to get a start in life. Plenty of young Irish men have already made the move over here to find employment. Do the American men have the balls to do the same?
Australia's future main export is going to be real estate. So the demand for construction workers is here.
I don;t think there are many bricklayers left in America that are not illegal? You take illegals?
I know Americans are stupid, but surely they are not too stupid to learn to lay bricks? Here in Aus we have bricklaying schools. The minimum IQ entrance score is 80, which I know cuts out most Americans, but because the shortage is so severe they may be willing to waive the entry requirements.
This stupid Southerner American learned one thing. Word to the wise, you are better off laying your own damn bricks.
...not sure why they think that some poor old 55+ year old guy would work to give any of those (not all of them) thankless lazy Ikids with overblown egos a paycheck?
I started reading it and then stopped while reading about the electrician that sits on his ass all day with his lazy fat-assed wife waiting for his union to dole out a job. Pathetic.
sorry, younger generation, the public school system lied to 99% of you, for 1-16 yrs..
1% is how many make it in professional sports, other occupations, and useful political, or crony govt. jobs, where you can get rich doing what you want.
oh, and once you leave school your not all equal, your suppose to be different, everyone legally has a right to obtain equal work, for equal pay, your participation medal isn't worth anything in real life.
pre-school, and kindergargen, this is where americas facist govt. agenda, of socializing americas labor force starts, unionize every worker, every worker is equal, every workers gets equal pay, this is the agenda.
sheep are easier to herd than eagles.