Almost 50% of workers laid off in past 3 months found new jobs

[marmac]

Since today's unemployment rate is around 10%, even if the article was true, that would mean 15% actually got laid off to start with.

[ddmhughes]

The article was removed before I had a chance to read it but I don't think it was true. Our economy has to be completely restructured at this point for the job market to improve that much. We need to make the Chinease revalue their currency and give the manufacturing and energy sector as much support as we possibly can.

[hindsight2020]

I've said it once and I'll say it again. This administration is betting on the idea that the proverbial engineer turned part-time cashier will be content and obedient about his economic deconstruction. You make this situation large in scale enough and you'll have a civil unrest hot potato on your hands in twenty years so bad it will make a costa rican expatriate retirement a freggin' vacation.

They need a bubble to sweep reality under the rug. Bio technology is not getting the traction they wanted it, fast enough to absorb these "college educated" masses. You can always deal with the disobedience of the hourly high turnover factory worker proletariat, but you fail to lock in the obedience of the "college dupe", ergo your sweat equity tax base, and them rich folk in the hampton's are in trouble. This article is yet another illustration of spinning the ugly truth to substantiate the myth that by thinking happy thoughts, good things happen to people. Attitude is a response to outcomes, not a determinant of one.

[CosmicWizard]

hindsight2020 wrote:

This article is yet another illustration of spinning the ugly truth to substantiate the myth that by thinking happy thoughts, good things happen to people.

Mark Twain said it best…

”If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the paper you are misinformed.”

Twains idea could be expanded to include television and radio news as well.


In regard to your comment about thinking happy thoughts: Althoough thinking happy thoughts may not influence what transpires in our lives, a happy state of mind sure makes it easier to deal with whatever comes to pass in our lives. We can choose to think happy thoughts, worrisone thoughts, angry thoughts, etc...so why not choose happy thoughts! No one is forcing anyone to focus upon the lies and half truths perpetuated by the media. No one is forcing us to focus upon all of the crap that is transpiring right before our eyes. We can do our own happy thinking.

[Rei]

Originally Posted by subsound

Is it similar type occupations? Say if a civil engineer is now working as a secretary it's not quite as sunny as this makes it seem.

Are you a civil engineer?