Is this the new normal?

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Yes well....but the education level in the EU is much much MUCh higher than it is here in the US.

I don't know if it would ever work here.

That will only happen if you get all the absentee parents to actually involve themselves in their childrens education.

Then again... there is a whole segment of our culture that subscribes to the dumb as dirt and proud of it mindset.

To them education is detrimental and unwarranted because they ain't ever gonna use all that book lernin anyhow.

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I'm relatively young (30), so take my observations for what they are worth (short term). But it seems from my experience at least with my last two jobs which were in two different parts of the country that unemployment is more linked to an increase of people being "unemployable" than it is a shortage of jobs. I understand that at one time we had some high paying unskilled factory jobs that have moved overseas, but its time to adapt. The days of making $40/hr to sit on an assembly line are over.

My wife is in charge of hiring at her job, and I literally sit in amazement at the stories she tells me every night. Finding anybody that wants to actually work is next impossible and those folks are usually in such high demand that they won't settle for a low paying unskilled labor job.

We've been trying to find another person to work alongside myself at my job. We've received hundreds of resumes but most people don't even hold the license required to do the work, let alone have the education level/and or little experience we require. The interviews we've given for the few folks that actually meet those requirements are laughable at best. AND, I'm in a career field that is supposedly suffering right now.

There are some really sorry people out there, and they're breeding at much higher rates than the moderately competent folks are. With my experiences I simply can't understand the unemployment situation with it being almost a year now without finding anybody qualified to hire for my line of work. My last job did do a massive layoff, but there was no coincidence in the folks they choose to cut. If you want to get paid, you have to work.

Good help is tough to come by, and I see that as much higher factor to our current unemployment crisis, than I actually see a shortage of jobs.

Its a problem I see only getting worse with time because it just seems that the population of people that want to just self-destruct their lives is growing at a frighteningly scary rate. Then agian, like I said earlier, this is a relatively short term observation based on my age.

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I'm relatively young (30), so take my observations for what they are worth (short term). But it seems from my experience at least with my last two jobs which were in two different parts of the country that unemployment is more linked to an increase of people being "unemployable" than it is a shortage of jobs. I understand that at one time we had some high paying unskilled factory jobs that have moved overseas, but its time to adapt. The days of making $40/hr to sit on an assembly line are over.

My wife is in charge of hiring at her job, and I literally sit in amazement at the stories she tells me every night. Finding anybody that wants to actually work is next impossible and those folks are usually in such high demand that they won't settle for a low paying unskilled labor job.

We've been trying to find another person to work alongside myself at my job. We've received hundreds of resumes but most people don't even hold the license required to do the work, let alone have the education level/and or little experience we require. The interviews we've given for the few folks that actually meet those requirements are laughable at best. AND, I'm in a career field that is supposedly suffering right now.

There are some really sorry people out there, and they're breeding at much higher rates than the moderately competent folks are. With my experiences I simply can't understand the unemployment situation with it being almost a year now without finding anybody qualified to hire for my line of work. My last job did do a massive layoff, but there was no coincidence in the folks they choose to cut. If you want to get paid, you have to work.

Good help is tough to come by, and I see that as much higher factor to our current unemployment crisis, than I actually see a shortage of jobs.

Its a problem I see only getting worse with time because it just seems that the population of people that want to just self-destruct their lives is growing at a frighteningly scary rate. Then agian, like I said earlier, this is a relatively short term observation based on my age.

what you see is a problem that is real, so many parents protected thier kids from the evil world and let them have whatever they wanted and then they graduate from college with no work ethic or an actual degree in a field they can work in. the first thing that alot of younger people want is to sit behind a desk checking out facebook and make 60k plus a year. The parents should have made little johny get a job at burger king or cut grass for the nieghborhood instead of playing xbox. The cars that teenagers drive should be paid for by the kid not the parent. the gas and insurance should be paid for by the kid also.

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When I was living and working in Europe, I recall the unemployment being higher than it was in the US but the peole never feard that they would loose their homes nor go hungry due to the support of the state.

Oh those evil socialists.... how dare they wish to have a better life for their people.

Well.....it's also a very smart way to help their economy recover.

You see when you are not worried to death of going hungry or loosing your house odds are you will continue to spend money to keep the economy going.

Funny thing, my taxes there were 40% my taxes here in the US? Are about the same. So go figure?
Such is life i guess.

Seee there ya go... At least there you get something for your 40%

Most of the rubes herre have not figured out they are not getting value for all the money they are paying for taxes so they wish to pay less.. until you tell them its going to cut into THEIR favorite way to get money..

Yes they do -- the value for the $$ that the rubes you speak of get is the ability to boast about how they can turn any other country into a parking lot, because we have the biggest and baddest nukes. And the largest number of them that taxpayer dollars can buy.

Be humble, ask questions, listen, learn, follow the golden rule, talk when necessary, and know when to shut the fuck up.

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what you see is a problem that is real, so many parents protected thier kids from the evil world and let them have whatever they wanted and then they graduate from college with no work ethic or an actual degree in a field they can work in. the first thing that alot of younger people want is to sit behind a desk checking out facebook and make 60k plus a year. The parents should have made little johny get a job at burger king or cut grass for the nieghborhood instead of playing xbox. The cars that teenagers drive should be paid for by the kid not the parent. the gas and insurance should be paid for by the kid also.

I couldn't agree more. The issue I speak of has no social boundaries. There are as many poor uneducated folks out there, as there are are highly educated kids coming out of college with absolutely no idea of what "work" is. We've interviewed some recent graduates that think a bachelors degree with no experience somehow makes them qualified to run the company, and expect to make more money than any of us who will be training them for several years. That is sure way to get a quick "thank you for your time, c ya later", in an interview.

I grew up in a low income family <25,000 year, so I started out with a paper route in 4th grade. I bought my first car, all gas and insurance. Perhaps that's the difference, I dunno. But as much as parents think they are giving their children a headstart, with a few expections, it seems they are only hurting their futures. Kids need to understand the sacrifice that goes along with all the stuff they've had handed to them including their $80,000+ college education.