When it comes to unemployment, Repuke and Repuke Lite blame the victim.

[European Socialist]

These stinking Globalists always are on the same page--"People need more education". There are plenty of educated people that can't find work and what is really needed is a ruling elite whose economic philosophy goes beyond "winner take all".

[European Socialist]

1. Sorry for the mini-rant, nobody from McPravda ever questions it.

[Nikia]

2. And they want employees to assume the risk themselves

Many employers want employees educated with very specific skills and a very specific degree. Some of these jobs in the past didn't require degrees because the skills were learned on the job. The problem with choosing a very specific degree program to get the right job is that the right job might not be there for you in the future.

[skids]

4. Bingo. There's more though.

Besides putting you in a job where you work your ass off with no time for "professional development" of any real consequence, unless of course you are one of the managerial ruling class, and then dumping you on the street a few years later and telling you to go pay for your own retraining, there's another reason they tow this line.

By consistently saying this, they build up political pressure to allow the import of more cheap labor from foreign labor markets via the H1-B visa program and other such con jobs.

[liberaldemocrat7]

3. Can some Democratic Pollster do an unemployment survey?

The Bu$h administration lies about the unemployment rate. They cut people off unemployment insurance after only 6 months and they do not count these people once they lose their unemployment benefits.

Some Democratic pollster should consider doing a survey on unemployment to find the actual rate of unemployment independent of the lies theat the Bush administration tells.



Call for Bush and Cheney to resign. Boycott Rush Limbaugh's advertisers and call them and demand that they get Bush and Cheney to resign or you never buy from them again.

[skids]

5. There is a phone survey...

...the idea that people disappear off the list is actually not quite correct -- there is a phone survey done to determine the number of people looking but off-benefits.

However the way they phrase the questions and the criteria they use do not give a good representation of unemployment, and underemployment (e.g. skilled professionals flipping burgers) is woefully unsurveyed.

I think a private polling company doing such a survey would be a good idea. For that matter, there are tons of things that it would be useful to have polls on which we do not do, because it isn't in the interest of any monied individual to pay for them.

[Nikia]

7. For some unemployed people, a phone is something that goes

As money becomes scarcer.
Probably the percentage of people not having a phone is higher for the unemployed, especially long term unemployed, than the employed.

[stranger81]

8. that's exactly what they do to hide the real numbers . . . . .

my Dad has been unemployed since being laid off in 2000. He's a Ph.D educated biochemist with publications in dozens of languages, and can't find a job to save his life (likely because of his age -- mid-sixties). He'd give his left arm to be working, but instead the government would prefer he be retrained as a greeter at the local Wal-Mart.

what a bunch of shit.

[Deja Q]

6. Education costs a lot. When you have no money, it's hard to get it.

Especially when these folks, who claim to be Christian, don't bother to teach people how to fish... :think:

I'm happy to work and make a contribution, but it's all about greed and dismantling the West (this goes well beyond America...)

Also, the people who ARE intelligent and more than those who read a book: How will they be seen? Surely as being wanted (desired) when we have too many nincompoops running around and shouldn't be allowed to breed or have jobs... Or will they be wanted (as in criminals)?

The new minimal IQ should be 120.

(yes, I know normal range is 90-110, but IQ vs monetary wealth; IQ will mean more in the long run -- if people are truthful about maintaining America's edge and humanity's collective intelligence...)

[InkAddict]

9. Good theory, but

instant-gratification will cause greed to prevail, hands-down. The bigger picture, the forest, disappears just outside ones "personal safety zone." Europeans zone (Greek, Italian) is much closer than the Brits'. Asians' personal safety zones are much more removed.

Brains may take time creating a strategy to grab that last bean, but sheer greater physical force will grab it first without a strategy and gobble it up before the brain cells can fire off "a plan."

True ignorance says, we don't need muscle or brains, even though a little of both is necessary, just pure belief - and *'s base is just that dumb!