Report: More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force

washington.cbslocal.com/2014/05/02/report-more-than-92-million-americans-remain-out-of-labor-force/

What is really holding us back? Why are nearly 10 million Americans doing without while our countrymen go global helping everybody else who has problems and struggles to survive like we do?

Why are others lives more important than ours?

Would it get our Politicians and President's attention if we united together and protested against their diversionary tactics like all the other people are doing by revolting against their governments?

In the last few months I've been putting in apps, looking for work, and being interviewed here in my rural county. But I'm turned away too being told the job market is for the young and healthy.

I can't believe my life is pretty much over at the age of 52, not to mention my bad back. Being unable to lift, twist, or stand for long periods is working against me.

My doctor says the current system isn't designed to help women in my category to have a successful life. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only female whose been sidelined, considering how high the jobless rate is.

So what are we Americans really supposed to do?

How are we supposed to meet our daily living expenses without jobs and money?

Man Arrested For Threatening John Boehner Over Unemployment Extension

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/09/john-boehner-threat_n_5297327.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

This is how our leaders handle those of us who are hungry and angry enough to speak up.

Mr. Thompson of Indiana made a couple of "threats" to get their attention, they are written and verbal, but not at gunpoint.

I totally understand the feelings of aggression that comes over us when we the people are mired in trying to survive and those in positions who could help us simply turn their backs to our pleas and problems.

Like our lives don't matter while they live in luxury.

There aren't enough jobs for everybody in this country, this is a fact, and if unemployment and other government run benefits are cut off too, how are we expected to live?

Eating out of dumpsters? Sleeping in the streets? Begging hand to mouth?

What's the deal?

The deal is that a liberal congress lets the corporations and banks regulate and write the laws of their monopolized industries, killing small business competition and the backbone of American enterprise and prosperity.

Small business (the "former" majority of jobs in America) can't prosper or even start under the regulations killing the competition to crony capitalist mega-corps and the lobbyists in DC.

If you're not on the "world" market, Wall Street, a political campaign bundler or multi-million dollar start-up (basially, a liberal, living off the sweat and hard work of the majority), you have no chance of succeeding any more thanks to our criminal reps in congress.

If you want jobs you have to end the two party control in gov't or America will soon become like our jobs and rights.....non-existent!

The Shadow (in the WH ) knows!

Unemployment Extension 2014: Is The GOP Right About The Unemployment Rate Dropping Due To Ending Benefits?

www.inquisitr.com/1246382/unemployment-extension-2014-is-the-gop-right-about-the-unemployment-rate-dropping-due-to-ending-benefits/

How stupid do they think we are? Unemployment rates don't prove anything other than 10% of the workforce fluctuates back and forth while the other 90% have no real options.



The unemployment extension debate in 2014 has divided Republicans and Democrats, with the former arguing that the unemployment extension should be dropped in order to encourage Americans to seek jobs, while Democrats believe unemployment benefits should be renewed indefinitely, or at least until the United States economy has improved significantly.

But what does the recent unemployment rate numbers tell us about who may be right?

In general, unemployment benefits are intended to be a trampoline that bounces back workers into a job without losing everything.

But some people fear that the unemployment extension has caused these benefits to become a hammock where some Americans have chosen to be lazy rather than actively seek a job.

For example, economist Fred Giertz of the University of Illinois believes "tough love" is necessary and dropping the unemployment extension could force the jobless to work harder at finding work.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) agrees with this assessment, saying that an unemployment extension could cost $26 billion over 10 years and they say job-seekers may "reduce the intensity of their job search and remain unemployed longer."

At the same time, the CBO also points out that US economy would be helped by the unemployment extension since the unemployed would spend the money received from benefits in their local economy, although critics of this position say that's like borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."



HOW DARE THOSE THAT SIT COMFORTABLY fed, clothed and housed while still being employed without fear of losing their incomes judge the unemployed who aren't being lazy by choice.

TOUGH LOVE they spout as they terminate the means for families to eat and stay off the street. While their incomes keep flowing.

It's always those who have no idea what life is really like when we have to rob Peter to pay Paul just to make our monthly bills who sit in judgment looking down their noses while telling us to tighten our belts as they loosen theirs.

And that's all we need to fill the void in our bellies is for Republicans and Democrats to doubt our integrity and talk, talk, talk about anything and everything while doing absolutely nothing that puts us back to work!

Seems to be pretty self explanatory and can't say they would really be wrong.

Well, they did vote in the lyinkenyan twice.

Purty duckin fumb, no?

There is no limit to the depravity of man, especially those refusing to think for themselves,

Hmm. Let's see ...

1) There is a mismatch between the skills, experience and knowledge needed for the jobs available and the the skills, experience and knowledge of the people who are seeking employment.

2) Instead of moving to other parts of the USA where available jobs are, Americans tend to want to stay living in their current communities/states.

3) American workers tend to become so specialized in their field of work, that they lack the flexibility needed in order to change careers.

4) Americans who find themselves unemployed after moving up the economic ladder often seek jobs that will pay for the higher standard of living that they are accustomed to.

5) Employers are reluctant to hire more workers in response to the regulations that the federal government requires employers to conform to.

These are all contradictions, one invalidating the other. Here we start off with no skills, experience or knowledge but we must move outside our support base and beware of developing specialized skills, experience and knowledge while also being careful not to qualify for promotions or increased standards of life in the face of employers reluctant to hire because their may be or could be regulations the government imposes.

Why don't you just state the obvious, the government hasn't a clue as to how to provide anything positive about creating jobs but is tremendously effective in killing the efforts of those that do in order to protect the donors that keep the psychopathic statist delivering some delusional authority to the masses that are too ignorant to know any different.

And personally I would suggest you move nowhere unless it is closer to a support base and that you use your energies learning how to care for yourself and your loved ones. Because as the old saying goes, "May you live in interesting times". But you haven't seen anything yet, these times are due to get very interesting, very interesting indeed.

1) And access to learning has been so outrageously priced that the majority out of work can't afford the cost of lessons and living at the same time.

2) It takes money to move, and most out of work have to prioritize how they spend what they have until the next paycheck starts rolling in again.

3) I guess now young people will know they better become Jacks of all trades early on because they'll never know when the rug will be pulled out from beneath them and they'll have to move on.

4) Nobody likes to go backwards in life. It can be very demeaning and ego deflating.

5) Not having regulations to control the wild spending and advantages being surreptitiously taken is what caused this widespread problem to begin with. So employers and workers are going to have to acclimate to the changes if they want to make a living and eat.

For all the judgmental and well cushioned folks who think others need to struggle harder as they clip the strings to support.

I say STOP THEIR PAY!

Let them experience just three months without a dime to meet their obligatory monthly debts along with extras like food, gasoline, medications, doctors visits, etc.

Let them experience first hand not having another job available to them in their area of expertise or physical location and see how they handle things.

Then they'll be able to tell the rest of us what we should do because they will be the shining light in a dark place for us to follow.

Until then, judge not lest ye be judged.

The masses are too ignorant to know exactly how they are being mined by the elite gold diggers, but they do in fact feel it enough to complain and ask why.

To ask, "Where's my piece of the pie?" too. As hard as we work we deserve our due!

And its the very elite who don't want to share the wealth that are keeping the masses ignorant by making access to any useful ladders damn near impossible to reach, let alone climb.

I think it's making a mockery of true world progress when the powers that be intentionally price the cost of living above the mass majority's head so the elitists can be extremely choosy about who they rub shoulders with.

Just calling a spade a spade.

Well, if protecting your ego is more important than having a job ...

Oh, forget it. You are a Human, and ...


Thankfully I am a Melmacian.

Da-dee Da-dum

Come on now David Melmacian... Of all my responses you chose the one you could spin back on the unemployed as if we shouldn't expect to be able to continue maintaining the lifestyles we earned originally and prefer.

Besides, regardless to how it may affect us humbling ourselves, when we and our families get hungry enough we'll do whatever it takes to keep us all fed.

So it's not really about pride when the chips are down.

The truth is, the US economy has changed drastically since manufacturing was all sent to China, et. Al. Places like Detroit have become wastelands but in other areas, like Texas, the economy has done well. Houston has an excellent job market.

The politics of our economy is another story. There is no sane approach to jobs in Washington. There is a lot of talk to win elections with no knowledge of what actually has to be done.

How about big corporations bringing our jobs back home?

I'd like to believe at least 65% of the millions that are out of work long term would appreciate getting their foot in the door.

How about on the job training for those without experience and skills?

If we can't get into schools to earn a degree that might not have any real value when it pertains to actual hands on delivery of services than why can't employers offer training courses specifically targeted at those they need?

I live in a rural community and haven't been in the mainstream workforce due to a bad back in almost 30 years, so I don't really know what's available for someone like me.

Only now at 52 I'm given the excuse that I'm too old and infirm to perform manual labor. Which is basically all that's available close to home.

But I'm a quick study and can do anything I put my mind and what's left of my back into because I like to pay my bills on time. So why couldn't an employer that needs someone for let's say something like office work train me in house?

I'll tell you why.

Because it's all about who you know not what you know that matters.

And if you're an outsider in an environment that caters only to their own you don't stand a chance. Doors are intentionally held shut. Ways and means are intentionally denied.

And there's no way for people in Washington D.C. to change the way everyday folks run their affairs. No matter how many laws they create to regulate conduct. People find avenues and loop holes to get around everything.

Even though people balk at what they call racism, or a better word would be bigotry, it very much exists in all forms and subtlety and is the means by which people are being deprived of their opportunities to thrive.

And yes, I agree, there's plenty of talk and scrambling when it comes time for elections because those with steady jobs and great benefits know how lucky they are and want to keep them.

Dog eat dog...

Calling a spade a spade, not really, just a cop out blaming others for their own lack of action. One always depending on another to do what they refuse to do themselves. This nation almost as a whole takes no responsibility for anything. It's always somebody this and somebody that. Well if you would like to know who that somebody would be, I would suggest looking in a mirror.

Personally I am retired and happy but should I desire to make additional monies, I could write a business plan and be ready to implement my Monday using less cash that a single person would receive on food stamps. It's all a matter of mind set, I don't need another to be responsible for me, that is my job, always has been ever since I was 14.

Welcome to Unemployment: College Grads Face Tough Job Market

www.youtube.com/watch?v=geHsK3M7IEw

1) Many college grads that were unfortunate enough to have graduated in 2012 got a hardy welcome to unemployments-ville

2) On average people that graduated in 2012 spent longer looking for their first job and once and if they got it they'd be getting paid less money than their predecessors.

3) It has changed for the worse even in just the past few years.

For those who graduated in 2006 to 2008, 14% have no first full time job.

4) For those who graduated in 2009 - 2011 their unemployment rate is at 45%.

5) Everyone from 2008 - 2012 are still trying to get the jobs that are available.

6) Those that do get work will get paid less than the average income made in 2000.

7) Starting at a lower base pay the younger graduates will never catch up to their older counterparts.

8) More students, about 2/3, graduate with more student debt at around $25,000.

9) How can graduates live and pay off their education's debt with low paying jobs?

10) Everybody's being told to go to college but the jobs and pay aren't there when the rules for getting ahead are followed.

11) This is a shake down and regulations are needed to stop it.