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2019-09-04 Economy

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Posted by Bobby 2019-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 Verging on Bee-style satire.

Are these morons seriously arguing that Americans can't cobble and stitch and weld and bolt and, you know, make stuff?

Or that we have a shortage of people willing to work for a living? Really?

Stop importing illiterate peasants from Central America and the fourth-world parts of Mexico.

Start training Americans to do skilled jobs, and pay them a living wage.

And cease with your f---ing lies and fairytales about how "we need" illegals' shit labor for shit wages.

Posted by Lex 2019-09-04 02:10|| 2019-09-04 02:10|| Front Page Top

#2 If a skilled labour deficit is really the case, it's even better news. More trade-school applications than college loans. More American workers top to bottom. More jobs and less activism. The wins should just keep adding from there.

Until the left strikes with unionism ! But blow that bridge when you get to it.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-04 04:08|| 2019-09-04 04:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ^LOL

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2019-09-04 05:11|| 2019-09-04 05:11|| Front Page Top

#4 More trade-school applications than college loans.

Times 10, please.

My now 32 year old son, the baby, got a small scholarship to Emerson College from our local auto dealer because it was the closest thing to a trade school that they could find.

Posted by AlanC 2019-09-04 08:01|| 2019-09-04 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 "We now have had two generations in the U.S. who don’t know how to sew," he said. BS. Nearly every woman of age who has arrived in the United States from Central America knows how to sew.

Posted by Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-09-04 08:12|| 2019-09-04 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Toys r Us hit hardest. Oh, wait, never mind.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-04 09:00|| 2019-09-04 09:00|| Front Page Top

#7 The cosmic-level chutzpah is amazing when you see a seamless pivot from sneering at "underbred 'Deplorables' shopping cheap Chineses knock-offs at WalMart" to "Gracious! Tommy won't get his ~~Christmas~~ 'Holiday Season' plastic truck!!!11!!!"

Posted by magpie 2019-09-04 10:15|| 2019-09-04 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe we should take the hint as a country to quit buying great quantities of $h!t every December and calling it Christmas.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-09-04 12:59|| 2019-09-04 12:59|| Front Page Top

#9 It is disgusting the way the department stores and other retailers have hijacked and perverted Christmas. And, for the past several years, the Chicoms have hitched a ride on Santa's sleigh. It's time to kick 'em off.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-09-04 15:04|| 2019-09-04 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 First of all, Christmas sales should be much smaller. It is a ridiculous, disgusting trend that encourages people to spend six months of their annual income in a single month (hopefully with credit cards from various stores).

Second of all, I'm sure it would be much worse for Christmas sales if the American workforce had lower wages and lower employment levels.

Third and finally, addressing the issue of sewing, there are plenty of people who can sew. A number of my middle class friends can sew (perhaps not well enough to be a seamstress, but they can still sew). But they aren't going to do it for a living because they have much better jobs already. I have a sneaking suspicion that businesses who say "I can't find anybody to hire" almost always mean "I can't find anybody to hire at the poor wages/inadequate benefits I plan on offering them".

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-09-04 15:45|| 2019-09-04 15:45|| Front Page Top

#11 If a job has been open for three months in an area the size of greater Dallas, it is the employer's fault, not the labor pool's.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-09-04 15:46|| 2019-09-04 15:46|| Front Page Top

#12 What Au said.

The irony that a country which demolishes churches and jails christians sells the most christmas merchandise is lost upon the 'christian' world.

Not that Christ is bothered in the least.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-04 16:10|| 2019-09-04 16:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Nohz not da cheep dizzy knee noise makers!

Who will irradiate muh girlz jewelry?

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-09-04 16:35|| 2019-09-04 16:35|| Front Page Top

#14 I have to throw the bullshit flag on that one. Lots of sewing machines still being sold.
I know a little store in Indiana that has several seamstresses to make their custom historical clothes and they have to keep expanding and hiring more to fill demand.
There are lots of 3rd world people already here that can sew just fine.
Sewing isn't that fucking hard. Just takes practice.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-09-04 17:32|| 2019-09-04 17:32|| Front Page Top

#15 ..used to be part of Home Economics in junior high school (and the boys got shop). Not aligned with the college track installed by, guess who?, the College of Education at most universities. So guess what's been cut. /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-04 20:35|| 2019-09-04 20:35|| Front Page Top

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