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Since 2007: 1.4 Million Manufacturing Jobs Lost; 1.4 Million Waiter/Bartender Jobs Gained
Who says America has a jobs problem? As the chart below shows, the "New Economy" may pay abysmally, but at least it promises a little to everyone (or to paraphrase a famous phrase "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"). Nowhere is that more obvious than in the chart showing the monthly change in waiter and bartender jobs.
Here is the bottom line: in the past 65 months, or nearly five and a half years starting with March 2010, or when the jobs "recovery" really kicked in, jobs for waiters and bartenders (aka food service and drinking places) have declined just once.
This is a statistically abnormal hit rate of nearly 99%, and one which we assume has everything to do with the BLS' charge of not so much reporting reality as finding loopholes in the goalseeked model to report that the US keeps adding over 200,000 jobs every month or bust.
Putting this number in context, the US has allegedly added 376K bartenders in the past year, and 3 million since March 2010.
And here is another, even more disturbing way of showing the "New Economy" - since December 2014, the US has lost 1.4 million manufacturing workers. These have been replaced almost one to one, with new waiters and bartenders. Win, win for everyone, especially the welfare state and of course, China.
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What are the numbers on booze consumption?
Hmmm could that be because 1 waiter working 2 part-time jobs = 2 employees to the BLS...
Who has money to go to bars and out to eat? Must be all those welfare people, because I work and I cannot!
People paying with that plastic money. "If you can afford the monthly payment you can afford it" kind of nonsense.
^^^^^^This^^^^^
This country would be better off at this point if credit did not exist.
saints51,
Debt isn't a bug; it's a feature. Without credit, we'd have to work a lot harder and learn to conserve. I don't think most people want that. So be careful what you wish for.
The work ethic was killed off long before the jobs went elsewhere. Unions are for higher wages and job security. They will still endorse democrats despite TPP etc.
True dat!
"You deserve it!"
"Show your neighbors who you are!"
"Buy a XYZ and look like a King!"
"Buy Moar, Save Moar!"
"When you shop, you save!"
"If you call right now ...."
"This deal won't last forever!"
"Don't be priced out of the market."
Oh, "We deserve it!" alight...it's all over but the crying and gnashing of teeth....
Retirement money living on borrowed time.
Retirement money is SO 20th century. Now all of the cool kids are planning to live on benefits forever.
Old farts making huge cash for knowing how to drive manual transmissions and make calls with rotary phones and use punch cards.
IN the land where Automobiles were invented the automatic transmission are optional and few people order them.
People here still like to drive their cars. (Germany)
My S4 has an 6M tranny with a short throw shifter.
Dat tranny got a nice ass.
Government employees.... Civilian and Military.
We have several military bases here and it looks like boom town usa.
You'd be surprised to find out just how many parasites there really is!
EDIT: Government Employee,,, Welfare...... same, same.
@ Synergize...exactly.
What? Next thing you know, you will be blaming it on ObamaCare. Oh wait....
Soooo......is it since 2007 or 2014?
Bring me a sandwich and a whiskey neat.
I even think these numbers are faked. I really don't think that many new restruants and bars have been opened. Even in tourist spots like South Florida, Lee county beaches, Broward Area, etc, dosen't seem like there are a lot of new places AT ALL.
I think everytime I give my friend a beer they are counting me as a bartender for the month to get these numbers.
In hindsight, Obama's Beer Summit early in his first term should have given us a clue on where things were headed.
and all those waiters and bartenders do not pay taxes on their tips...they do not report all of them by a big margin....and many live on the dole too...its a scam life and they are good at it....they see all the cash and want part of it...
My wife was a waitress earning that great $2.13 per hour minimun wage for waiters/waitresses.
You tried making it on $2.13?
Most I seen her come home on a good day with in tips was about $25 dollars. That works out to about $42,,, about $5 per hour.
She is one of the hardest workers I ever met. Took pride in her work even though most sneered and made passes at her.
And kind sir,,, she was never on any welfare of any sort.
So,,, kindly shove it!
EDIT: This was BEFORE we were married, and she had one child. You try it...
She sounds like quite a catch! Gotta pic?
Wow. So now apparently, it is open season on people making tips. I often wonder when I read stupid shit, how the government and the IRS were so successful in brainwashing an entire society into believing that making tips or engaging in barter or unreported cash income- was somehow shady.
The only shady practice is the one where the IRS seizes your money and gives you nothing in return- ya know- like that fantastic representation we get in DC.
For a second there I thought this was the worst "work from home, earn monies" spam ever...
Anyone who avoids, doesn't, hides taxes is a patriot.
And anyways, taxes are so last century. Print print print to the moon!
Most waiters I know claim they get few cash tips. Most are on the credit card slips.
Is it possible that the number of jobs have increased but the number of hours per job has decreased? To sidestep Obamacare?
The American Dream - you have to be asleep to see it.
so, obamacare is working. reduce hours, so full time becomes part time and hire some folks to work those hours so companies dont have to pay benefits. cant do this with manufacturing, so those people lose their jobs and are the part time fill ins at starbucks, mcdonalds and chipotle.
Bingo! Not 3 million new bartenders. One million bartenders now forced to work 3 jobs and being counted as 3 million. Common Core new math.
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That's my surprised face!
Hey people need to eat and get shitfaced also. More bartenders.
Finally! A post I can drink to!
Trump will negotiate better trade deals.
These are all the great jobs Obama takes credit for. That's the change we can all believe in!
And the biggest income of Bartenders and Waiters is black money, tips. The amount of money collected is nowhere near the amount reported for tax. So the Government is once again going to have to borrow an insane amount of money to pay for the 1 in 7 people that now work for the US Government.
When Reagan was president, the IRS first started using a restaurant's gross receipts to determine if there was under reporting of tips. Restaurants have to file a report designed to highlight any shortfall of reported tips below 8% of gross receipts from food and beverage sales. Further, most tips at full service restaurants are paid by credit card, enabling restaurants to keep track of tips. In the good old days, in the 1970s and earlier, when cash was king, waiters could hide most of their tip income and declare what they want. Back then, the IRS would send undercover agents in to monitor the amount of cash tips service employees received. Very labor intensive. Now, wait staff have restaurant managers taking a cut of their tips illegally when they can and the IRS pressuring restaurants to report all tip income or else.
Meh. Nothing the TPP won't fix!!
Make me - no change that to - Manufacture me a sandwich and a Scotch and water -
Just reclassify these jobs as manufacturing - problem solved.
AND I STILL NEED TO WAIT 20 MINUTES BEFORE THEY BRING ME MY FUCKING BEER!!
NOW YOU SEE WHY I'M UPSET??!!!
Good! I need someone to serve me at the bar when I use my SNAP card.
America should start manufacturing the things used by bartenders and waiters: plastic trays, highball glasses, and long metal spoons. Then, if the US consumer can just start consuming more booze---a LOT more booze---it's a win-win. Problem solved.
Make less things, eat & drink out more, support your local bartender and greasy spoon.
More and more you have to believe that there is no way in hell that these job numbers for food service is not made up. You have to understand who your dealing with in Washington, D.C. right now people.
But more important is the burning issue: why does the Donald hate womyn?
If you new the womyn that I know, you wouldn't be asking that question...
A new drink called "The Johnny Paycheck" made with rut-gut mixed with the tears of the un- & underemployed.
https://youtu.be/EzGoDtmTllg
A throwback to better times when we had a blue collar, middle class Empoyee's market--days that I'm afraid are gone for good.
Now we've got an Employers' bifurcated market where the generational song will be "Beg for a job and suck it".
Ah, reference yet again the benchmark gilded age of 2007.. . . .
I'm sure dutchies pine for the tulip days of the 1600s.
Sounds like we are shifting from a manufacturing nation to a service jobs nation...I will drink to that. And when China starts losing manufacturing jobs and goes to a service economy...wow..that's going to be alot of shitfaced people crying in their beer...
Seems the waitresses sell something els then food
THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING IN AMERICA ...
Pretty soon there will be more bartenders than there are customers.
At least we manufacture the fries served....do we?
People need to eat. And here in Amerika, they also need to be served their food. ;-)