The Real News: High Unemployment Due to Lack of Demand, Not Lack of Skills or Education

[geefloyd46]

[Skittles]

1. lack of demand is due to offshoring

HELLO!

[cartach]

2. Right on. Sure wouldn't send work offshore because education/skills are lacking here.None

of that needed there,just cheap labor.

[ctsnowman]

3. Everyone knows that it's because of Unions.

[dotymed]

4. I got a robo-call from the

Carpenters Union last night.
Canada is hiring 10,000 American UNION carpenters and millwrights NOW. Our highly skilled, Unionized carpenters cannot findwork in the U S.
I do not know if it is for the keystone pipeline. Canada has employed it's (larger than ours) Union carpenter work-force and is pleading for ten thousand Union American carpenters.
If I were healthy I'd move my family there immediately.
When I was still working, I earned $30 + an hour and great benefits, overtime, etc..
Canadians were earning 1 1/2 times that.

[ctsnowman]

5. Went to Montreal a couple years back.

I envied the public transport and just basic infrastructure improvements I saw that they had in place or were putting in place. Buncha commies though.