Lost Jobs

[Sam]

Well, in a few weeks we'll have another election so we're being inundated with political ads and political talk. A lot is being said about "lost jobs." What are these jobs that have been "lost"? and are they coming back if we vote in the correct candidate?

[CC1]

Well, in a few weeks we'll have another election so we're being inundated with political ads and political talk. A lot is being said about "lost jobs." What are these jobs that have been "lost"? and are they coming back if we vote in the correct candidate?

I can tell you of one lost job. My son that worked on an offshore oil rig was a victim of our Socialist Presidents attempt to cripple the oil industry by imposing that six month moratorium.

Of course he and his advisors were informed enough to know that this was in reality a multi year moratorium as once the six month one was anounced the rigs accepted contracts in other countries and are moving the rigs there.

I really hope the polls are correct and America votes to end this experiment in socialism from the Community Organizer in Chief.

[coadie]

Well, in a few weeks we'll have another election so we're being inundated with political ads and political talk. A lot is being said about "lost jobs." What are these jobs that have been "lost"? and are they coming back if we vote in the correct candidate?

If Obama worked 6 weeks and vacationed the rest of the year, jobs would return. Housing construction is very low. Population creates more housing demand every year. With rock bottom interest rates, people don't build because they don't trust the regime. Many jobs will return if economic growth interference is cut back.

[canam]

And now he wants to fix another jobs problem by throwing more money at it.Unbelievable ,the stupidity of this man.You CAN NOT spend your way to prosperity, or we would all be billionaires,Can someone get this through his thick skull?

[coadie]

And now he wants to fix another jobs problem by throwing more money at it.Unbelievable ,the stupidity of this man.You CAN NOT spend your way to prosperity, or we would all be billionaires,Can someone get this through his thick skull?

Bad news. There is a vacum inside the skull.

[commonsense]

And now he wants to fix another jobs problem by throwing more money at it.Unbelievable ,the stupidity of this man.You CAN NOT spend your way to prosperity, or we would all be billionaires,Can someone get this through his thick skull?

Amen.

(at a recent family gathering in another state, my Dem relatives actually think our pres is great.:razz And suggested the smartest pres ever...(????----how can I be related to these people?) )

[Walks_in_islam]

They probably are not coming back no matter who you vote for.

Put in simple terms:

They are jobs making things and products. Manufacturing things that people want to or will buy. Due to regulation, tax code, and spiraling healthcare costs, those things cost less to make in other places. Businesses work on a difference between costs and value of their product. SO: For constant value businesses produce products at lowest cost possible.

So businesses are making products elsewhere. The people who have the jobs making them are not working in the US.

If you could make a product in China for a few dollars a day with little to no paperwork to keep up with or navigate your business through the staggering amount of financial, personnel, and healthcare related regulations in the US what would you (or any sane person) do?

Even I remember when everything in the household was made in the US or you could find a brand made in the US and the quality was second to none. How many of the things you buy are made there now?

Once these companies move and spend capital to set up, they don't come back. Our best export at this time? We will soon join Mexico and Nepal and Bangledesh and other countries where our people go to work somewhere else and send the money back home OR we will just tax foreign products and create an idle welfare working class.......

Well, in a few weeks we'll have another election so we're being inundated with political ads and political talk. A lot is being said about "lost jobs." What are these jobs that have been "lost"? and are they coming back if we vote in the correct candidate?

[Sam]

well, looks like we still have hope.....


help is on the way.....

[TrmptPraise]

Capitalism (if you can still call it that) today is not what it was in the past. Many of the entrepreneurial pioneers of the early 20th century would not be successful doing the same today. Call it bureaucratic red tape, too much government intervention or simply extreme litigation. Americans feel they need an agency or division of government to protect them in the case that they use a product incorrectly or fail to read the instructions. If a kid falls off a bike, the manufacturer is scrutinized since there must have been a defect.

It's amazing we all survived growing up :) I even drank from a garden hose once and lived. Truly a miracle!

[Sam]

... I even drank from a garden hose once and lived. Truly a miracle!


drank from a garden hose?

That may explain some things about you....

:ursofunny

[missourimary]

If a kid falls off a bike, the manufacturer is scrutinized since there must have been a defect....
I even drank from a garden hose once and lived.

Just once? We drank from garden hoses in the summers and ate icecycles from the roof and snow straight from the yard in the winters. Our bikes were so old that no one remembered who the manufacturer was, so scrutinizing the manufacturer when we fell off a bike wasn't a possibility. We were healthy and happy.

As a nation, our prosperity may be our death.

[geekette]

Lost jobs...All of the jobs I'm talking about here are well-paying tech jobs that start at around $50K and go up.

It used to be, back in the day (as in "only a few years ago") information security positions were not allowed in our company to be sent to India. That has changed. Some of the people I share an office with are not so happy about this development. And, as I told my manager yesterday, if they can offshore information security, what about my job?

The one thing that mitigates against our jobs being outsourced is that our senior manager HATES India with a passion. This is a woman who went driving around central Europe with her husband for her vacation this summer, so she likes to travel. But her beef with India was that, as a woman, even as a senior manager, she was basically told to sit in a corner and shut up unless spoken to. That did not go over well with her. If she has her way, we're not going to be bringing on any more folks from India beyond the one guy who works with the India division.

If they keep doing this to us, we're not going to have the money to keep buying all the junk that China keeps sending our way.

[Scott Hutchinson]

In my area,plants have closed and they have not been replaced.

[dizzyde]

A lot of the jobs that have been lost are due to a trickle down affect of our country living way beyond it's means for a long time.

I am going to be without a job at the end of the month, and it is directly the result of the economy.

It has been a tough couple of years for churches (I work at a church) anyway, the loss of revenue that has occurred because of so many losing jobs, having to move away for other jobs. But our church had managed to pull through, then the state of California went bankrupt. All non-essential services were cut, and that included state funded preschools.

One of the major ways that our church has received funds for the last couple of years is from our leasing a portion of our facility to a Head Start preschool during the week. So, long story short, our church will be fine, but we are having to cut all of our running costs dramatically, and I and some of the janitorial staff were the most expendable.

It is a little humorous to me that the more politically conservative among our church members moan and groan about how much money the government was giving to "those people, and those programs" but we were benefiting directly from them. And now, it is hurting us because funding is being cut to "those people and programs," and they want to cry about that... Ironic.

Can't have it both ways!

[Liberal]

A lot of the jobs that have been lost are due to a trickle down affect of our country living way beyond it's means for a long time.

I am going to be without a job at the end of the month, and it is directly the result of the economy.

It has been a tough couple of years for churches (I work at a church) anyway, the loss of revenue that has occurred because of so many losing jobs, having to move away for other jobs. But our church had managed to pull through, then the state of California went bankrupt. All non-essential services were cut, and that included state funded preschools.

One of the major ways that our church has received funds for the last couple of years is from our leasing a portion of our facility to a Head Start preschool during the week. So, long story short, our church will be fine, but we are having to cut all of our running costs dramatically, and I and some of the janitorial staff were the most expendable.

It is a little humorous to me that the more politically conservative among our church members moan and groan about how much money the government was giving to "those people, and those programs" but we were benefiting directly from them. And now, it is hurting us because funding is being cut to "those people and programs," and they want to cry about that... Ironic.

Can't have it both ways!


Oh, you haven't heard? Liberals cause every single problem that exists in America. I'm surprised you didn't know!:lol

[dizzyde]

Oh, you haven't heard? Liberals cause every single problem that exists in America. I'm surprised you didn't know!:lol

Well, really, don't the liberals cause all the problems everywhere??? :toofunny