The Job Market

[Yo Mama]

I just saw this video on the news and looked it up. yes, it's a satire, but it ought to be a good jumping off point for a real conversation on the state of the US job market. (For those not in the US the video is hilarious anyway).

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Where I live, there are zones in each city where the hispanic day laborers wait for jobs, just like the people in this video. If you drive past them in a pick up truck or other large vehicle, they will crane to look in your windows, hoping that you're hiring. It's actually quite sad to see these people who want jobs not able to find any. And even if they do, they are prone to being robbed or not paid for a day's work (much the same thing, really). No health care, no guarantee of an income, in one of the most expensive metropolitan areas in the country.

Is the scenario on this video too far off the mark? Does anyone else see that this might actually be a feasible scenario?

[mojo]

Thats cazy.

I'm obviously biased, and my country has a much smaller population than the US, but if you want to work here you can get a job. It may not be your first choice but you can find work if you really want it.

It is heading towards being a meat market though.

[Yo Mama]

The hispanic guys are all illegal immigrants, so they can't get a job aboveboard.

It's quite a mess, in this state at least.

These folks come here to work and send money home to Mexico and points south. Sometimes their families join them. While the mom and dad are out slaving for any buck they can get, their kids are out running the neighborhoods being gang shitheads.

[Foxtrot Oscar]

Ok... So it's funny! But i think it is also not that far from the truth. The way things are going for the US economy there are going to be a lot of highly qualified people finding themselves up the creek without a paddle.

The IMF is calling resession and Bush is calling for the check "errr can I get this to go (in to hiding)"

FO