[Will88]

First off the Great Recession hasn’t ended and secondly we do know the cause of the job losses.

I expect supply and demand might have something to do with it? For many years employers have made every effort to increase the supply of labor at all levels by lobbying for more legal immigrant labor, and by luring illegal immigrant labor, and by outsourcing to cheap labor every sort of job that can be outsourced, and exporting manufacturing jobs.

We do know what's been causing job losses, and stagnant job growth in many types of work, for years we've known. There are still many with an economic and/or political reason for not acknowledging the reason for the losses, and for the shrinking middle class.

The article mentions the main causes.

This would be a good one to post during the day when more would see it.

[ari-freedom]

This has nothing to do with manufacturing. MBA’s aren’t going to suddenly decide to make toys and gizmos.

[TopQuark]

"For many years employers have made every effort to increase the supply of labor at all levels by lobbying for more legal immigrant labor, and by luring illegal immigrant labor, and by outsourcing to cheap labor every sort of job that can be outsourced, and exporting manufacturing jobs."

And why were they doing (some of) the things you allege? Is it not because the labor you mentioned has failed to stay competitive?

[dennisw]

Gonna give you a clue. (grin) The same people who sabotaged America by open borders, by letting industry move offshore, by not imposing tariffs... This same class of parasites blew up Wall Street (and America) with mortgage backed securities and derivatives. Off course they took home billions doing all of the above while the average American and Freeper swallowed their bullshit about>>>>> free trade and free unfettered markets on Wall Street

I never fell for any of the above and have been observing all of the above since 1988.