OT: US Jobs - what recovery?

It's even worse than that.

It takes creating roughly 180K jobs per month just to _break_even_ with attrition.

Take into account the _non_counting_ of those job seekers who have given up (*) finding work, and you end up with a net loss.

(*) Look up how the "Labor Participation Rate" has declined. ...Jim Thompson

Yes, and the jobs created in the last 10 years or more even, have been low-wage, zero-hour contract/part time ones: burger flippers, pizza tossers and coffee house baristas. Where are all the high skilled, high paid jobs for life we had back in the 50s/60s/70s? I'll tell you where: China and the rest of the far east where they're happy to work for a bowl of rice a day (or in prison for mere "privileges"). This is all thanks to the one-world, border-burners like Sloman and Snowflake. And Snowflake is so *dumb* he can't even see how he's been f***ed over by the very system he praises!

In the mid 70's James Burke made his great ten part "Connections" series for the BBC. There was an episode that started with an examination of the 747 air freighter, to compare it with 17th century cargo ships. Burke made the extremely prescient observation that the 747 could carry the guts of a factory anywhere in the world in a day, and he asked, "What effect is that going to have on the developing countries and their relationship with us."

So it's a natural development and not the result of policy, except that we have mostly free trade policies. If we had free trade with Germany and Japan 90 years ago WWII wouldn't have happened. You can try to imagine where we would be headed with the newly industrialized countries if we didn't allow trade with them.

At the same time the left has ensured that no US teenager can ever get a job again. The local Burger King has a help-wanted sign "Up to $15/hour."

Remember the "gentle giant" thug who was shot dead in Fergusson after he attacked a cop. Al Sharpton pointed out to the crowd that he was just about to start college. After 5 or 6 years he might have risen from a

In the 80's when people were yelling about Japan monopolizing the RAM market, I thought there was no problem. We had the CPU market and they require more creativity.