US job openings equal the number who are unemployed for 1st time in 2 decades! Links: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-us-job-posting-20180508-story.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/08/the...ual-unemployed-for-1st-time-in-2-decades.html http://www.americanpress.com/wire/u...cle_0846289e-431a-5d69-99eb-8d2161e7bfd8.html http://www.richmond.com/ap/washingt...cle_4d1a826e-38a0-50dd-baef-09228d32e156.html Interesting. NOW, what're the new excuses going to be for not getting up off the couch and getting a job instead of continuing to scam as much welfare out of the government as possible...? . "Meh... my clothes don't fit!" .
It doesn't make any difference how many jobs are available if people get used to not working why would they want to? Right now Democrats are looking to rush the voting booths in November to elect so many more liberals that Trump won't be able to do anything and they won't ever have to go back to work again in their lives. That is what living 8 yrs. under Obama taught them.
There is a disparity between the skills and expertise demanded and the skills and expertise of the unemployed. In fact, the last ten years of high unemployment has depleted the skill base as graduates worked in menial jobs because they couldn't get an appropriate job. The skills of those unfortunate people have been diminished.
We don't agree often on anything, but you are right! We started nosediving into the 'Great Recession' in August 2007 and because people (especially people in their early twenties) couldn't get jobs that they wanted, a lot of them simply set up permanent residence at Mommy and Daddy's house, signed up for every kind of welfare and/or government 'giveaway' available, and took up playing on Facebook with their little bust-out friends as an avocation. Now these 'adult children' are in their mid-30's. They're way too old to be on Mommy and Daddy's health insurance any more. The handout welfare feature of Obamacare "subsidies" are will be gone next year, and those who never went to college, or who went to college but majored in "basket-weaving" liberal arts studies will continue to have bleak prospects -- just as you suggest. The 'bottom-feeder', peanut-pay jobs are being fought over by poor people and illegal alien workers, and even more and more of those jobs will eventually be done by robots of one kind or another in the future. But, for the relatively few who used their heads, and got a worthwhile education, there are more good jobs available now than ever!
