Posted on 06/07/2006 9:51:31 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
"Bush is a Terrorist."
PCR can stick his head back into the sand. Newsmax ought to be ashamed to have this buffoon on staff.
That graphic, along with another that I used to have for Fall 2005, has killed every thread where it has been posted. Unfortunately, Mr. Roberts has more staying power.
I am still waiting for the DOW to crash to under 5000 like he promised in 2004.
1956 or 2006 ???
"Manufacturing lost 14,000 jobs. "
Unions ask for more money, management can't give it to them because it will result in a loss. Unions don't care. Management moves business. Union sues. Company eventually shuts down after union milks company for all it is worth. Union bosses make money, Union attorneys make money, Union members get screwed. Owner moves to West Palm and retires with a tax writeoff.
Vote Democrat.. Yeah, that's the ticket.
I have seed that graphic before also, but the perception among parents of youngens is as the article above suggests. Many are advising those going to college to avoid engineering and computer related professions because of the outsourcing/h1b turmoil. To suggest everything is looking up is just as wrong as to say it is all bad.
Manufacturing jobs have been on a down-slope (world-wide) for decades. But, as Dick Armey once said, “Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.”
Maybe those parents spend too much time reading Paul Craig Roberts. You don't want to send your kids through an Engineering program? Fine. The salaries of those that remain will just go higher . . . until the perception changes.
Civil engineering seems lame for a major, but it will get a career on a silver platter, and when the PE is added a few years later the civil eng will have the world by the short hairs. If there is a pipeline or road or any other civil construction to be built there will be several civil eng present, and pulling overtime. The base salary is no indication of what the civil eng can make.
I think it is due to the fact that the parents are going through the layoffs themselves and are having to settle for short-term contract work, not because of what they read.
I don't know what I'd call him now, he's certainly not a Republican nor Conservative.
The economy is creating new jobs. This is a good thing, unless you are a Democrat Party thug who wants to score cheap political points at the expense of the American worker.
"PCR lost his marbles long ago, as evident of his writing President Bush would nuke a small city to justify a war with Iran."
That is over the edge! He should know we could just send in a small destroyer that takes small arms fire a lot cheaper (Gulf of Tonkin)...hehehe
Hey PCR - 4.6% unemployment. Bite me.
What's a degree worth?
Not much in my book- I earn twice that with no college degree and an electrical contractors license.
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