#98 | Posted by Prolix247 at 2009-07-02 01:43 PM
you never answered my question above, what would you offer the structurally unemploed?
Come on Prolix, get real. There are people who are unemployable because they are disabled, physically or mentally or emotionally. This hard core is difficult to employ except in sheltered workshops if at all, and their employment is often more costly than just providing them with support.
The remainder of the so-callled "structurally unemployed" are those who are "transtionally unemployed" for reasons of their own, and who are between jobs, will be getting another job when they return to the labor market. The core of employable unemployed consists of a constantly changing population.
Then there are the underemployed, those capable of and interested in acquiring skills that enable them to secure more remuterative employment.
And of course, there are those not interested in employment, some of whom rely on welfare, community support for successive generations, and the scammers and criminals.
There usually is no "hard core" of structurally unemployed. some 5% or 6% provides flexibility to both job seekers and employers. Where I reside, retailers and fast food operations could not find sufficient help to staff their facilities with unemployment at that rate. Jobs are available with that unemployment rate.
What is it, Prolix, that you are indicating. The so-called "structural unemployed" are not a core of the same people. Work on that idea.
There is certainly a problem now that Obama's initiatives are destroying the system that provided employment. There are trained, able, ready, and willing people seeking work, but Obama's Marxian outlook ignores the necessity to create wealth through employment, and makes its priority redistribution of wealth according to the priorities of a man who is a profession aggrieved street agitator, and the product of a corrupt political machine whose program is to distribute inordinate wherewithal to those who help maintain them in power. Unemployment may reach 30% when the second whammy of Obama's inflationery policies hist us.
