LET'S TALK ABOUT "YOUR" JOBS

Nealz Nuze ^ | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 | Neal Boortz

[The Mayor]

Relocate, start your own business or complain.

Complain? hardly- starting my own business again.

[Condor51]

"The jobs belong to the employers .. not the voters!"

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Aha, but not in a COMMUNIST country. And that's what the demoncRATS are pushing for. A Marxist state where 'they' control everything.

[MacDorcha]

i like your logic!

[smith288]

random question. isnt your colour scheme the third option?

Yea...I was working with John Robinson.Im famous. ;)

[Taliesan]

That paragraph just repeats what you already said.

Again, there is no economic law concerning the equilibrium between profits and wages. Obviously, no company will produce a product that no-one can buy. This mythical america where rich companies are producing products that no-one can buy is just another fantasy from those who, for some mysterious reason, HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO GRASP THE BASICS OF ECONOMICS.

[FITZ]

These economies reflect the lack of legal protection for private property

In some areas there are record rates of foreclosures --- there is not a lot of legal protection for private property when people have no jobs. You can even lose your private property when job loss prevents you from paying property taxes --- the government will just take it away from you.

[MEG33]

We were lucky and managed to always stay in Texas and have a good job..then disaster hit,two kids in college and no job.We moved to California because that's where he finally found employment .We got to come home again because of a job offer here in Texas.Its sometimes the only way to go..where the job is....

[beaureguard]

I worked my way through college much the same way you appear to be doing. Paid my own way, no loans, and just a couple of small ($500 or so) Pell Grants.

Didn't have to worry bout the loans to be paid off after I graduated. Listened to several counterparts complaining about having to pay off their loans and was glad it wasn't me.

Course it took me longer (5 1/2 yrs) to get through...

[FITZ]

There is a certain equilibrium --- health insurance and other benefits were provided when competition for labor existed. Health care is one of the biggest part of the economy --- but is becoming more and more government subsidized because of high numbers of uninsured.

[Taliesan]

Mexico's problem is a lack of a middle class?

OK, then following the logic of the protectionists, go ahead and explain to us how Mexico's error was unfettered capitalism and insufficient protectionism.

[MacDorcha]

"Obviously, no company will produce a product that no-one can buy."

on a similar note, a Blue Angel is on Ebay starting bid is 29 million. what was that about providing what noone can buy? there may not be a stable equalibrium, but there is an equalibrium. you give someone money for a job, they spend said money. you give them too little money, they leave said job for another to spend more money. you give them to much, you lose profit, they spend money, and lose job when you lose your business by spedning to much. trouble keeping up?

"extreme, middle, extreme" with the "middle" working is called an "equalibrium"

[Taliesan]

There may be a RELATIONSHIP between benefits for workers and corporate profits, but there is no law concerning their equilibrium.

There is an equilibrium wage in the labor market, where the supply and demand curves intersect.

[kaylar]

If you do not have the particular set of job skills that an employer needs, of if you have priced your labor out of the marketplace, guess what? It's not the employer's fault. The fault lies with you.

American IT workers may have been the best...But they are not willing to live on $10,000-20,000 a year. And even if they were willing to do so, how can they,in virtually any part of the USA? Even in the rural midwest, those wages would not cover the normal living expenses-rent, food, car, utilities, emergency money...Not to mention the loans to pay back for college, where s/he learned the skills that are now too high for a labor market that includes the worst of the Third World.

Either develop a new set of job skills that are actually in demand, or adjust your pricing. The employer knows what he's looking for you. If you're not it .. it's your problem, not his.

Regardless of our "skill" level, the employer will prefer to outsource to people who want $10,000-20,000 a year-regardless of any fall off in quality that may result. Our skills and experience and knowledge are irrelevant-the CEOs will go for the cheapest worker.

Do you want companies to stop outsourcing IT jobs to India?

We have not yet begun tosee what a disasterous mistake outsourcing is. That she-dog who threatened to put confidential patient information online unless she was given a $10,000 bribe? I'll bet she's the tip of the iceberg. I wonder how many Americans are going to lose their credit-their savings-their identities, when the Third World helps itself to their financial data-and we've seen a ton of articles at FR re: financial data being outsourced-including IRS info.

Ditto for manufacturing.

This guy ends his screed with a WW IV reference...Does he ever stop to wonder just how we are going to be able to fight wars when our armaments, ammo, uniforms, etc, are being made by countries that hate us,including one that has threatened more than once to bomb LA?

...because you've made some pitiful jobs choices.

Like the "pitiful" decision to become a nurse-when native nurses are fired and Filipinas hired in their place at $7.00 an hour. Ditto doctors. Or the pitiful decision to become an accountant-when corporations are outsourcing their financial work. Or the pitiful decision to major in IT or CS-ditto. May I remind the author of this screed that those are the sort of jobs we were SUPPOSED to get when the factories went overseas? Good grief, there is NO degree we can get, no skills we can perfect, that cannot be done elsewhere for 1/10th the cost, NOT because we're "greedy" , but because the cost of living in this country-even the cheap sections-is high.The US government helps itself to 40% of the average taxpayer's earnings! Never mind housing, food, car payments, utilities....

People like this won't be happy till no one in this country can survive unless they're a hooker, drug dealer, nude dancer, or massage parlor girl-and what's to stop illegal aliens from doing THOSE jobs for less? OK, there's still cop, firefighter, prison guard, hotel and restaurant staff, cashier...But it should be remembered that some of those jobs are quota/AA jobs, and if you're the wrong color/gender for that area, you're SOL, and the remainder are more and more "reserved" for illegal aliens. We're "too proud and lazy" to do the jobs we were doing right up to the day they fired us and hired illegals (I could tell some real horror stories of what was done tol ocal-black and white workers at the poultry processing plants.) And smug SOBs like the author of this screed need to remember...even in your job seems safe and unoutsourceable (eg,lawyer), how does that help you if-because of the loss first of manufacturing jobs, then of customer service jobs, then of white collar/professional jobs-no one can afford to buy your services?

[eyespysomething]

Boortz is voting for President Bush, and says so repeatedly.

[traumer]

Welcome to Walmart !

Do you want fries with that.... ?

[Taliesan]

Yes, I am having trouble keeping up. Please use a spellchecker and write in complete sentences as you instruct me in the laws of economics.

[FITZ]

The 10% at the top are exceedingly wealthy --- Mexico has as many billionaires as does Great Britain and Germany --- but it's a very unstable country due to no middle class ---- they do not promote a middle class. They've enjoyed a large peasant class and abundant cheap labor to exploit --- more servants per family than you can imagine --- but now their servant class has seriously outnumbered their elite class --- that's a Revolution waiting to happen.

[MEG33]

He can't.

[eyespysomething]

I am not for government action. I *am* for people staying informed and, where appropriate, boycotting companies that operate unethically.

That's the way to do it. Market forces, market forces, market forces.

[MacDorcha]

uhm... why does it look like you're attacking me? i uhm, said stuff against socialism....

and whats this about "needing to keep people fed"? that isnt the Governments job, thats our own jobs.