Reply #8: Do we have a tracking of people who hold MULTIPLE jobs? [View All]

[HughBeaumont]

What are the quality of said jobs? I noticed a lot of jobs being created in low-paying sectors, but manufacturing lost 7 thousand jobs this month, once again highlighting our continually weak industrial sector under Lancelot Link. Strong economies have strong industrial/manufacturing bases. You got to have good paying jobs to accommodate those who cannot get a college degree for whatever reason.

How are those wages holding up to inflation? Pikkety-Saenz survey says the wages for the lower 90% of earners have been stagnant since 1970 (and, nothing against our 70s counterparts, while working longer overall hours), while the upper-echelon not only has increased their wealth in the past 10 years by anywhere from 29 to 1444%, they've also gained government privileges hand-over-fist to maintain and even increase their wealth further. A job's not a job's not a job.

Understand that I don't want the economy to be bad on purpose because I loathe this backwoods pigfucker and his oily neo-con cabal. What I'm failing to grasp is why no one calls their continual goalpost moving, not tracking ONLY the number of full-time-with-benefit jobs created. What I'm failing to understand is how they're consistently in the black when all I see in the paper is how (insert MNC here) is laying off (insert single or double digit number here x 1000) jobs. When are THESE accounted for and addressed? It seems they never are. Nor does anyone address the fact that in 60-something months, this economy has only met the birth-death rate (150,000 jobs needed to accommodate new workers going in and coming out) I think, 11 of them. That's not a good percentage by any stretch. Why also does no one address the amount of workers considered employed under dubious circumstances?

I'm just angry that these people continually praise how this smoke-and-mirrors economy is going when all I see in Northeast Ohio are dead ghost towns with closed factories, lots of vacant office space, malls that have now turned into makeshift flea markets, not ONE notice of job creation and job cuts to Ohio's plants almost daily. My cousins are about to lose their jobs at Packard. Where do they go? I'm sure it's this way around America, but why is no one but us stepping up to the plate and calling these assholes on their lies?