What did you have for dinner?Job Openings Rise to the Highest Level in 14 Years - Real Time Economics - WSJI'd like to see us dramatically reduce the need for welfare. It will always be needed for those who fall and for the disabled. For the able-bodied, it should be temporary. I am alarmed at the number of people who are doomed to end up on it because they are neglecting to learn skills to get them through life. With 5th generation welfare recipients, you can see that the lack of ambition and discipline being taught by parents. I am so sick of the left insinuating that people are doomed because of skin color or because they are growing up in the wrong place. When will the left start telling individuals that they have potential to become anything they want to be and that blaming your lot in life on racism or wealthy people is nothing but a cop out? Of course, the left encourages government dependency. They always have and each year they find new ways to recruit new dependents and use lies to convince people that it's not their fault that there is no other choice for them. Must rely on the benevolent liberals for a meager life with the promise of more. Decades have passed without improvement.
In order to get people back on their feet, or to just make sure they "launch" when they become of age, we need available opportunities and people who are ready to accept them. Government doesn't create jobs, but can sure create policies that are either friendly toward job creation or detrimental to employment opportunities. Billions poured into our schools haven't improved conditions in too many of them and that is highly suspect. Would love to see a break down of where the money was spent.
With Obamacare, crony capitalism and other oppressive policies, small businesses are barely surviving and many see each employee as a huge liability. And many companies are forced to meet quotas for minorities, which means they aren't able to choose the best people to run and work in their businesses.
This relationship has still not returned to where it was in the mid-2000s. The last time there were as many job openings as today, the unemployment rate was under 4.5%. This suggests that, for whatever reason, workers are not filling the available jobs as easily as in the past. This could be a sign that workers lack the skills for available openings or that employers are unwilling to pay sufficient salaries to get workers to accept the positions.
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We can't even get the GOP to pass a highway bill. You know they cut education. Too "liberal".
Yeah, because we're not completely irresponsible like the leftists, whose policies have destroyed Greece.
What part of "$18 Trillion in debt" did you fail to grasp in your tiny little brain?
I love how you highlight stuff... and ignore the rest.
This is like a 4-year-old "Mommy can I go out and play" And the response is "Maybe you can after dinner".
Then after dinner "You said I could go out and play after dinner"
No, I said "maybe". You have homework to do.
You highlighted...."workers lack the skills for available openings"
but failed to read the words just before that "This could be a sign".
Meaning that it's possible that's a reason, and it's possible it's not.
What if government health care mandates have made hiring people unprofitable? What if minimum wage laws that are going up at the state level, are holding employment down? What if the corporate tax rate is driving investment out? What if out of control government spending, that you moronically support, is making business wary of operating in the US, knowing that when the debt comes due, they will be on the top of tax hit list (especially when you support attacking business already)?
There are dozens of reasons.
And not only that, but it's also possible that students are not learning the skills needed, by choice. How many art history majors do we have, when there is a dire need of electrical engineers?
Now notice the difference between you an me? You declared something as though it was fact. I asked questions, without assuming the answer.