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Want to know why there are no jobs in America?
Topic Started: Nov 23 2011, 06:43 PM (797 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
Axtremus
Nov 24 2011, 06:07 PM
Jolly
Nov 24 2011, 06:00 PM
Obama.

Specifically, Obamacare.
Which part(s) or aspects of Obamacare?
The 1099 mandate that has since been repealed?
It's failure to extend Medicare to people as young as 55 years old?
The individual mandate not strong enough to make the deal profitable?
It fell short of single-payer universal healthcare that was originally expected by the would-be dealmakers?
Too many variables.

When you commit that kind of money, you want stability. There is a very good chance parts of Obamacare will be stricken down as unconstitutional.

Even if not, everybody knows Obamacare is unsustainable as written.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
ivorythumper
Nov 24 2011, 11:59 AM
Axtremus
Nov 24 2011, 10:07 AM
ivorythumper
Nov 24 2011, 09:59 AM
In a population of 110 people, you think it is a healthier economy for 10 people to be phenomenally wealthy and everyone else to have virtually nothing, or all 110 people to have more even distribution of the wealth?
This is a different question than the last one you asked; this one has more potential for vigorous and fruitful intellectual debate, but still has nothing to do with my question on what measure to use to determine the "size" of companies.
It is not a different question, it only uses different words and distills the first question down to its essence since you did not understand what I was getting at.

I agree that the metric is important for the rhetorical purposes, but I care more about what builds healthier economies.

Which would be healthier?
So which do you think is healthier, Ax? Which would be conducive to a stronger, more robust, and more enduring economy?
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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George K
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Finally
Custom Car-Maker David Kirkham writes to Glenn Reynolds:
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“Your WSJ link is (depressingly) more accurate than you may realize. I would hire 5 more guys right now if I could. However, it is virtually impossible to find anyone with skills anymore. The number one skill we are missing as a society is a work ethic. I speak to employers all the time and we all are looking for the same potential employee–someone who is honest, hard working, and who has reasonable intelligence. In other words someone who willing and able to learn new things and admit it when they screw up. Notice education is not on the list.”


The link he's referring to: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204190704577024510087261078.html

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The Non-Green Jobs Boom

So President Obama was right all along. Domestic energy production really is a path to prosperity and new job creation. His mistake was predicting that those new jobs would be "green," when the real employment boom is taking place in oil and gas.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported recently that the U.S. jobless rate remains a dreadful 9%. But look more closely at the data and you can see which industries are bucking the jobless trend. One is oil and gas production, which now employs some 440,000 workers, an 80% increase, or 200,000 more jobs, since 2003. Oil and gas jobs account for more than one in five of all net new private jobs in that period.

The ironies here are richer than the shale deposits in North Dakota's Bakken formation. While Washington has tried to force-feed renewable energy with tens of billions in special subsidies, oil and gas production has boomed thanks to private investment. And while renewable technology breakthroughs never seem to arrive, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have revolutionized oil and gas extraction—with no Energy Department loan guarantees needed.

The oil and gas rush has led to a jobs boom. North Dakota has the nation's lowest jobless rate, at 3.5%, and the state now has some 200 rigs pumping 440,000 barrels of oil a day, four times the amount in 2006. The state reports more than 16,000 current job openings, and places like Williston have become meccas for workers seeking jobs that often pay more than $100,000 a year.

Or take production in Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale formation, which the state Department of Labor and Industry says created 18,000 new jobs in the first half of 2011. Some 214,000 jobs are now tied to a natural gas industry that barely existed in the Keystone State a decade ago. Energy firms are also rushing to develop the Utica shale in eastern Ohio, and they are expanding operations in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, among other places.
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