Comments on: Employers Cut Jobs For 6th-Straight Month

62,000 Employees Slashed From Payrolls; High Energy Costs Blamed For U.S. Labor Woes

[harpoot]

"Funny how the headline didn''''t say anything about the Unemployment rate staying at 5.5%."

Hey smogbrain, that''s because when your unemployment benefits run out you are no longer carried as an unemployed person. Nice trick to fool the brain dead.

[element51]

jamesm12341....Hold on there little buddy. Your statement that ''libs don''t work" is just a little over the top. I am a liberal and I have worked every day of my life. I worked my way through college and became a teacher and taught for 26 years. How can you make a blanket statement like that knowing it is an out and out lie? Do you think you''re cute? One of the reasons that I am a liberal is because I would be so embarrassed to be like you. I don''t know why it is that you people think you have to make snide snotty remarks all the time. Why don''t you learn to make your arguements in a rational way. Maybe it''s because most of your comments come from Limbaugh and Hannity and Coulter and they are masters of deceit. If you want to argue and discus something, fine...but keep your snotty remarks to yourself.

[naucoming4u]

Posted by ibsteve2u at 12:01 PM : Jul 03, 2008
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Good response steve!

As I have said, it is an extremely simplistic mindset to think that if only we Americans just get educated, then the companies will hire us.

Clearly, corporate "America" wants one thing and one thing only...

...skilled(enough) labor at a bargain-basement wage.

[missingamerica]

DonLB said:

"Even if Bill Clinton vetoed NAFTA, jobs from the United States would still be outsourced. Skilled labor in other countries is cheaper and better educated, a winning combination."

Cheaper is right, better educated is wrong.

DonLB further said:

"For example, align your occupation with the core compentiencies and dynamic capabilities of an organization."

True, but not for the surface reasons.

The fact of the matter is our MBAs are now our weak point - witness George W. Bush. In a nutshell they determine their organization''s "core competency" based upon a "Do I understand it?" test - and if they don''t understand what it is that you do, you become an irritating mystery ripe for outsourcing/offshoring.

America''s biggest problem is our MBAs have two major failings: They are dumb as rocks, and the only thing that motivates them is money.

You are just an expense that deducts income directly from their pockets in their eyes, and "big picture" perspectives like the necessity of having an economy that provides labor with sufficient money to be consumers never enters their minds.

They''ve gone and cut their own throats...unfortunately, on their way to economic suicide, they butchered America, too.

[irliberal]

Over SIX years of war. Civil rights breached by our commander in chief. Internationally recognized torture sanctioned by the White House. Two invaded and currently occupied countries. Hundreds of thousands dead, including OVER 4500 American soldiers. Billions of our tax dollars spent, and yes, are still being spent to this very moment.

Iraq, which had NOTHING to do with 9/11, is now an occupied country which will implode when we get out of it, whether that happens one, two, ten or five hundred years from now. A society that CHOOSES to be ruled by religion cannot become a democracy; it can only be a theocracy with voting cards.

Bin Laden still lives. The mastermind of 9/11 still walks free.

The one, simple word for this is: failure. No amount of deception, indignation or wailing by republicons can change these facts.

Failure of Bush. Failure of Cheney. Failure of the republicans.

Time for a change.

[naucoming4u]

Posted by DonLB at 11:26 AM : Jul 03, 2008
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Some companies have gotten the taste of cheap labor as a huge profit driver, and no matter how educated we (Americans) become, these "American" companies will NEVER go back to paying 5 to 10 times more for the same (supposedly) educated work force... never.

It is a very simplistic thought that if we would "just get educated to the level the companies want". No, what Americans have to do to satisfy corporate "America" is to lower our standards to live and work at a wage level they want to pay... at or below minimum wage.

[piercetheval]

SUPPORT COTTAGE INDUSTRY AND YOUR LOCAL CRAFTSPERSON/TRADESPERSON...
AND VOTE LIBERTARIAN IN ''08
BOB BARR!

[donlb-2009]

Even if Bill Clinton vetoed NAFTA, jobs from the United States would still be outsourced. Skilled labor in other countries is cheaper and better educated, a winning combination. Thus, the way to keep a job is to learn principles of economics, and then apply them to your own life. For example, align your occupation with the core compentiencies and dynamic capabilities of an organization. If you cannot do so quickly, then do so over time, but do it. Second, get an education and be prepared to be flexible. I am sorry that people cannot find work and must suffer, but that is reality, and we all need to understand how to cope with bad situations. I hope that this helps.

[timdgrim]

Funny how the headline didn''''t say anything about the Unemployment rate staying at 5.5%.
Posted by ritewingman
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And how much has the population in the work force increased? Even though the precentage may be about the same, more people are out of work by the hundreds of thousands. 5.5% of the workforce in the 90''s is a lot less than 5.5% of the workforce today, not counting the undocumented illegal aliens that are taking jobs away from citizens.

[sgtrds-e4]

This is the end result of the trickle down theory of economics as practiced first by Reagan and now by Dubya. It''s SUPPOSED to happen this way. Congratulations, you''re being trickled down upon by the rich. Kinda wet huh?

[naucoming4u]

Economist John Williams of Shadow statistics puts the real unemployment rate at close to 14%, that sound a lot closer to the truth than the 5% nonsense spewing from the administration.

Posted by omega39 at 10:49 AM : Jul 03, 2008
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Yes, that is true, because the government statistics, (meant to be artificially low), only counts those currently on Unemployment. Those whose unemployment benefits run out, are NOT counted, but they could still be unemployed! (As many of us already know).

And of course, there are those who take a low-level retail job just to make ends meat...

...and there is no statistic to count people who lost their high-tech engineering jobs to, (Costa Rica, India, China, etc.), and then forced to work at WalMart!

[piercetheval]

...what''s to worry? I hear the military will be hiring for the next 100 years.
VOTE LIBERTARIAN IN ''08
BOB BARR!

[naucoming4u]

Was it BILL CLINTON?

Posted by gunshack1 at 10:39 AM : Jul 03, 2008
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...Created by and pushed by a Republican congress... supported by both Bill Clinton and Al Gore, (who actually debated Ross Perot on "Larry King Live" where Mr. Perot said his famous quote you mentioned).

[omega39-2009]

Economist John Williams of Shadow statistics puts the real unemployment rate at close to 14%, that sound a lot closer to the truth than the 5% nonsense spewing from the administration.

[sleepyric]

I see the comments here, and I just can''t believe that there are still morons out there who blame everything on past presidents. It was the moron Bush YOU voted for who has driven this country into the state it is currently in. Eight years of his policies are to blame, not anyone who was in office 8 years ago. Let me remind you, that it was Bush Sr., who embraced "globalization". Well, see what globalization has gotten us. Zero! Yet there are still idiots who think "our president right or wrong". Well, you chose wrong!

[gunshack1]

Does anyone remember the warning Ross Perot gave us about NAFTA? "That great sucking sound of our jobs going away". Who gave us NAFTA? I forgot. Let me think. Was it BILL CLINTON?

[whitemale08]

Folks, as much as I''m angry with Republicans for taking us to war etc. in reality we should stop calling each other names and recognize who the real enemy is.

The enemy is the private Federal Reserve System.

It runs both parties and has destroyed not just our country but nations around the world.

We should stop calling these Federal Reserve Notes dollar bills and call them for what they are ''counterfiet''

We should demand our leaders to host another Bretton Woods conference and go back to the Gold Standard.

It''s what Republican Barry Goldwater would of done. "he hated the Federal Reserve System" and it''s what FDR would of done "he made sure the Federal Reserve System was anchored by gold and silver.

It''s our only hope folks.

[Vinman]

Imagine that. Enployers cutting jobs. And in the same story, its reported that oil is up again. Well now, let''s see.....price of oil rises, energy costs go up for everyone including businesses, employers cut jobs in order to have money to pay the bills. Yep, the economy is in the tank and getting deeper.

[aldon61]

This country''s economy is in the tank. Brace yourselves folks, cause it''s going to get much worse!
In business, we''re taught to lower expenses and raise revenue. What''s this mad man doing? Spending at an all time record, giving tax money back to the citizens to "buy" things. That is a bail-out for american business, not a "gift" from Uncle Sam. In the meantime, the S.O.B. has mortgaged our nation to the hilt, now 9.5 TRILLION dollars. Our grandchildren will be paying for this folly. Get a grip now: McCain has admitted that the economy is not his strong suit, but he will definately keep our war effort going, he will continue to fund the "unnecessary war" in Iraq. This is madness people, it''s too late to impeach the bass/***, but for God''s sake, don''t vote for McCain!

[edgardebbins]

Better be stashing some silver and learning to grow your own potatoes.