There are good jobs, government workers want to be paid like the hard driven, educated, talented people who get good jobs, but they cannot perform like them.
Many industries are just out of range, as it costs hundreds of millions to even start, then hiring the cream, and Fortune 500 fail trying to broaden their business.
So things are made offshore so cheap there is no way to do it here.
So what is available? Local food service is up against national chains, Walmart and Big Box stores have killed retailing, and the available workforce failed to catch that train. They are unskilled at the things needed to launch most business, and way behind on the pattern of organization needed to pull something together.
That anyone can use them any time is amazing.
How to produce high pay, learn something useful.
They do not, they went to school and learned everything important.
Almost everything I use is less than ten years old, it makes ideas I had twenty years ago possible,
Workers might know the name of something, and think that is enough, but how to keep it running, make it productive, that is beyond them.
People want the old jobs, those were taken by robots, they want a small job, fast food is too complex for most, learning to cook fries is as far as they go. Ten people work there and only one can manage the place.
With that to work with, we will not create $40 an hour jobs.
Business is a skill, most do not have it, and for those that do, the big companies are hiring.
I, like everyone else in business am always looking. Better ways to do the job, holes in the market I can fill, and people who can open their mind to new ideas, because that is not taught in school,
There is a set limit to what I can invest, everything, I have limited time and telling someone what you told them yesterday does not last. How quickly I can get it done results in a profit or loss,
People went to school to learn how to learn, but I am not another school that is going to spend years teaching. As an employer, the first thing I notice is who treats me like a parent, a teacher, and tries all of their mopeing ways of avoiding cleaning their room or doing their homework. It is not like that out here, get to it or get out.
I am not allowed to give grades, like your paycheck for this week is minus $73. I have to stick to my side of the deal.
You have to get rid of them, or they will get rid of you.
People with drive, self education, learn to deal with the world. Mostly they find a way to make good money. Years ago I was a mechanic, a very good one, who fixed european cars. I learned by working on cars, reading books, had my tools, and knew what I was doing. I made money.
Twenty years ago it was computers, printers, and I applied the same skills, I read the book. I made good money.
I was selling my skills, and I have no idea what a lot of the workforce is selling. They act like they were assigned to my class, and I am stuck with them. They have no interest in what the business does, and what it takes to be profitable.
The old rule was it took one lead worker to keep three going, then one office manager to keep the lead workers going. Above that were higher managers who kept three office managers going.
Now it seems every worker needs constant supervision. It does not work.
The better people went with the big companies, or got their own thing going. A good deal of the current population is unemployable.
It is not an employer problem, try a Social Worker.
The return of good jobs comes after the return of good workers. People who learn what is being done, do it, are given raises and promoted. That is what it takes to make money, and any evil employer would want to keep workers who get the job done.
This same government that is saying employers must provide health care, well that will only be for the employed. That will be less, and the good of it is some fast food chains will be cutting hours, hiring only part time, or going out of business, as my last double wopper meal cost $9.
So the government can support them, give them health care, but after failing at education, you cannot make them employable.
I have spent years and much money learning to do something I think will be profitable, I am not going to be a baby sitter, means of lifelong support, when I can buy a robot cheaper.
So who will pay for unlimited health care? I can write off the robot, and make my own repairs, and when it needs a heart replaced, that is just a board. Healthy people who retire are expected to have a $200,000 health care cost. Non working are going to cost a lot more.
It is not the rich that produce, it is the productive. Tax high earnings, I know lots of productive ways around it. Burden me with babysitting, I will have less and only the most productive employed.
Seeing to the health, education, and welfare of all the people is why we have government. They went for Defense Spending. Spending fifty times what the whole world spends, has not made us safer. It has made us broke and deep in debt, with the worst schools, health care, and local economic development in the industrial world.
Government, Employees, and the non working, cannot make the productive people pay for what has been neglected for thirty years, It is just pointing the finger away from the parties that sold out the country, took bribes from defense contractors, took union votes in exchange for not demanding quality education, it can be done, lots of other countries do it, and universal health care, which Nixon proposed, and Congress refused, because Medical, Drugs, pay bribes. Now Cuba has better health care.
Back then it was called a Commie Plot, It was Un American to want National Health Care. Most women stayed home, raised families, and the economy was good, we lived well on one worker per family, and they were productive. Taxes were high on high earners, the debt was manageable, and new technology was being developed, producing full employment.
Wall Street was regulated, so were the Banks.
The country got what it voted for, what it deserved, $16 Trillion in debt, and now as Malcom X said, "The chickens will come home to roost."
17 Nov 2012, 5:32 am
some people cannot take "personal responsibility" which is just a horatio alger code word for "jerking oneself up by one's own bootstraps" which is physically impossible, btw.
