Lumpenproletariat
Veteran Member
- Joined
- May 9, 2014
- Messages
- 2,563
- Basic Beliefs
- ---- "Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts."
It's not that the jobs aren't there, but rather that there's a shortage of workers taking the jobs available. Maybe this is due mostly to the pandemic, which isn't over, and which is making employment less attractive.
Companies are even cutting back production for lack of needed workers. Who's to blame for this? And why basically is this bad?
What's wrong is not high unemployment, but that needed work is not getting done. There's a need for more truck drivers, dock workers at the ports, and some skilled workers like plumbers and electricians. Also firefighters, and many other kinds of workers -- but job-seekers are staying home rather than taking the jobs that are open.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/08/joe-biden-brushes-off-second-poor-jobs-report-in-row/
Unprecedented high-job-openings to number-of-unemployed ratio.
What's the solution?
Take in more immigrant workers!
There's obviously no shortage of potential workers.
Most of the vacant jobs could be filled, in a short time -- only 2 or 3 or 4 months -- by letting in an extra million immigrants who could take them. Only a few jobs are so high-skill that no immigrants could do them. Probably the whole problem would be solved in less than a year, if all the migrants needed would be taken in. And it would be easy to get all of them vaccinated, so that cannot be the obstacle.
So, what is the obstacle? Why can't Biden admit a half million or million migrants to take the jobs needing to be filled? Only because:
The American people are crybabies, who hate immigrants who might compete with them, and/or
they are crybaby-panderers who demand that companies pay workers more than their real competitive market value and not be allowed to hire them at low labor cost which would make it profitable to hire them. Maybe the labor cost is higher now, for domestic workers, because of the pandemic. But the simple solution to that is to take in a half-million or million immigrants, to meet the labor shortfall.
But the fear is that immigrants will drive down the wage level or steal jobs from red-blooded Americans.
Which means basically that we're a nation of crybabies and crybaby-panderers. And Biden and Trump are among the crybaby-panderers, not essentially disagreeing with each other, but united in their leftist employer-bashing philosophy to pander to the crybabies who hate competition and insist that work has to be done only by high-paid red-blooded native-borns who are entitled to the American Dream no matter how much it costs and are unable to compete against the newcomers.
The economy -- 330 million Americans -- are suffering because of this.
So both Reds and Blues think it's better to let the economy suffer, let the production be lower, so less wealth is created, and so American consumers -- ALL Americans -- must have their living standard reduced, because of our need to pander to the crybabies who feel threatened by competition from immigrants.
What other reason could there be for not taking in enough migrants to fill the vacant jobs?
Companies are even cutting back production for lack of needed workers. Who's to blame for this? And why basically is this bad?
What's wrong is not high unemployment, but that needed work is not getting done. There's a need for more truck drivers, dock workers at the ports, and some skilled workers like plumbers and electricians. Also firefighters, and many other kinds of workers -- but job-seekers are staying home rather than taking the jobs that are open.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/08/joe-biden-brushes-off-second-poor-jobs-report-in-row/
But the new report showed the US added just 194,000 jobs in September — far short of economists’ expectations of about 500,000.
The shortfall compounded a hiring slowdown in August, when the US added 366,000 jobs, according to revised figures released Friday — far below economists’ expectations of 720,000.
“President Biden is now a whopping 944,000 jobs short of what he promised from his last stimulus and worse, has lost the confidence of the American people to lead the economy.”
Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said, “Over 300,000 FEWER jobs created than expected in September – further proof Biden’s economic policies are hurting our country.”
Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial Network, explained the lower unemployment rate, noting that “the declines in the unemployment measures and the participation rate show that the movement of people back to the labor force has paused.”
Harvard economist Jason Fruman tweeted, “Job openings: 11.7m Unemployed: 7.7m The 1.5 openings per unemployed is the highest ever recorded.”
Unprecedented high-job-openings to number-of-unemployed ratio.
What's the solution?
Take in more immigrant workers!
There's obviously no shortage of potential workers.
Most of the vacant jobs could be filled, in a short time -- only 2 or 3 or 4 months -- by letting in an extra million immigrants who could take them. Only a few jobs are so high-skill that no immigrants could do them. Probably the whole problem would be solved in less than a year, if all the migrants needed would be taken in. And it would be easy to get all of them vaccinated, so that cannot be the obstacle.
So, what is the obstacle? Why can't Biden admit a half million or million migrants to take the jobs needing to be filled? Only because:
The American people are crybabies, who hate immigrants who might compete with them, and/or
they are crybaby-panderers who demand that companies pay workers more than their real competitive market value and not be allowed to hire them at low labor cost which would make it profitable to hire them. Maybe the labor cost is higher now, for domestic workers, because of the pandemic. But the simple solution to that is to take in a half-million or million immigrants, to meet the labor shortfall.
But the fear is that immigrants will drive down the wage level or steal jobs from red-blooded Americans.
Which means basically that we're a nation of crybabies and crybaby-panderers. And Biden and Trump are among the crybaby-panderers, not essentially disagreeing with each other, but united in their leftist employer-bashing philosophy to pander to the crybabies who hate competition and insist that work has to be done only by high-paid red-blooded native-borns who are entitled to the American Dream no matter how much it costs and are unable to compete against the newcomers.
The economy -- 330 million Americans -- are suffering because of this.
So both Reds and Blues think it's better to let the economy suffer, let the production be lower, so less wealth is created, and so American consumers -- ALL Americans -- must have their living standard reduced, because of our need to pander to the crybabies who feel threatened by competition from immigrants.
What other reason could there be for not taking in enough migrants to fill the vacant jobs?