Joe Biden and Team Heres How To Get In Touch with the Jobs Reality

Joe Biden and Team Heres How To Get In Touch with the Jobs Reality Yesterday I commented on Joe Bidens advice for job seekers: hang in there, stop smoking and cut out the junk food. That is good advice, but I think its too out of touch with what todays reality for job seekers is. You, Biden Co, seem out of touch with whats going on out there. Its been said people in the federal government (yes, the ones weve elected, and the ones we are paying for through our taxes (including their pension (which well never have) and lifetime health insurance (which we probably wont have)) have said that job seekers are lazy.  Job seekers are gaming the system, living off of unemployment (have you seen how pidley unemployment checks are?  Not enough to sustain a household for most people). Unfortunately you are caught up in the hype about the unemployment rate going up (sad! hide!) or going down (yippee!  Celebrate!). I dont believe in those numbers.  They are fraudelent (at the very least, they dont tell the whole story). You also get caught up in the reports that say companies are going to hire more this year.  More than what?  More than last year?  That was bottom-of-the-barrel stats anything is going to be better than last year!  Those reports are speculations based on surveys they are not necessarily going to happen.  Anything can change the strategic direction of a company and cause them to not hire. Unfortunately you have this far-fetched idea that it the governments right, and role, to provide or create jobs.  The stimulus didnt work.  The jobs created for the census were fake, and are now gone.  How has that helped? It was a bandaid, it was not sustainable, and now its over. Ill tell you how to get in touch with reality. Ive been doing this for a few years and its been quite an exercise. Go to job search clubs where professionals and executives meet. Go undercover, so you arent the celebrity there that steals the show. What you want to do is ask questions, and then listen.  There are some very, very smart people there.  There might even be some 99ers (you know, the ones you think are lazily sitting on the couch, smoking and twinkieing and cashing those unemployment checks?). Find out WHY they are unemployed. Find out WHY they havent been able to get jobs. Ask them what they think about the economy (they have a very realistic perspective). Ask them what they think would solve some of these economic problems (the answers will be less selfish than you might think). Ask and then LISTEN.  Just listen.  Dont make promises, dont give advice (because you arent really in a position of giving advice to them). LISTEN, and then think about it, and internalize the problem, and then try and come up with real policy that might help our country, and the world, during these rough economic times. Stop blaming past administrations, stop whining about who controls the House or the Senate, and how hard it is to work together. Stop coming up with overreaching federal policy that is more of an expensive bandaid than a sustainable solution. The reality you see, from reports and percentages and numbers and speculation, is far from the reality that we are living in. I challenge you to spend a few days on the road, attending these meetings, talking with these people, and getting a real perspective on whats happening and what could happen to fix it. Joe Biden and Team Heres How To Get In Touch with the Jobs Reality Yesterday I commented on Joe Bidens advice for job seekers: hang in there, stop smoking and cut out the junk food. That is good advice, but I think its too out of touch with what todays reality for job seekers is. You, Biden Co, seem out of touch with whats going on out there. Its been said people in the federal government (yes, the ones weve elected, and the ones we are paying for through our taxes (including their pension (which well never have) and lifetime health insurance (which we probably wont have)) have said that job seekers are lazy.  Job seekers are gaming the system, living off of unemployment (have you seen how pidley unemployment checks are?  Not enough to sustain a household for most people). Unfortunately you are caught up in the hype about the unemployment rate going up (sad! hide!) or going down (yippee!  Celebrate!). I dont believe in those numbers.  They are fraudelent (at the very least, they dont tell the whole story). You also get caught up in the reports that say companies are going to hire more this year.  More than what?  More than last year?  That was bottom-of-the-barrel stats anything is going to be better than last year!  Those reports are speculations based on surveys they are not necessarily going to happen.  Anything can change the strategic direction of a company and cause them to not hire. Unfortunately you have this far-fetched idea that it the governments right, and role, to provide or create jobs.  The stimulus didnt work.  The jobs created for the census were fake, and are now gone.  How has that helped? It was a bandaid, it was not sustainable, and now its over. Ill tell you how to get in touch with reality. Ive been doing this for a few years and its been quite an exercise. Go to job search clubs where professionals and executives meet. Go undercover, so you arent the celebrity there that steals the show. What you want to do is ask questions, and then listen.  There are some very, very smart people there.  There might even be some 99ers (you know, the ones you think are lazily sitting on the couch, smoking and twinkieing and cashing those unemployment checks?). Find out WHY they are unemployed. Find out WHY they havent been able to get jobs. Ask them what they think about the economy (they have a very realistic perspective). Ask them what they think would solve some of these economic problems (the answers will be less selfish than you might think). Ask and then LISTEN.  Just listen.  Dont make promises, dont give advice (because you arent really in a position of giving advice to them). LISTEN, and then think about it, and internalize the problem, and then try and come up with real policy that might help our country, and the world, during these rough economic times. Stop blaming past administrations, stop whining about who controls the House or the Senate, and how hard it is to work together. Stop coming up with overreaching federal policy that is more of an expensive bandaid than a sustainable solution. The reality you see, from reports and percentages and numbers and speculation, is far from the reality that we are living in. I challenge you to spend a few days on the road, attending these meetings, talking with these people, and getting a real perspective on whats happening and what could happen to fix it. Joe Biden and Team Heres How To Get In Touch with the Jobs Reality Yesterday I commented on Joe Bidens advice for job seekers: hang in there, stop smoking and cut out the junk food. That is good advice, but I think its too out of touch with what todays reality for job seekers is. You, Biden Co, seem out of touch with whats going on out there. Its been said people in the federal government (yes, the ones weve elected, and the ones we are paying for through our taxes (including their pension (which well never have) and lifetime health insurance (which we probably wont have)) have said that job seekers are lazy.  Job seekers are gaming the system, living off of unemployment (have you seen how pidley unemployment checks are?  Not enough to sustain a household for most people). Unfortunately you are caught up in the hype about the unemployment rate going up (sad! hide!) or going down (yippee!  Celebrate!). I dont believe in those numbers.  They are fraudelent (at the very least, they dont tell the whole story). You also get caught up in the reports that say companies are going to hire more this year.  More than what?  More than last year?  That was bottom-of-the-barrel stats anything is going to be better than last year!  Those reports are speculations based on surveys they are not necessarily going to happen.  Anything can change the strategic direction of a company and cause them to not hire. Unfortunately you have this far-fetched idea that it the governments right, and role, to provide or create jobs.  The stimulus didnt work.  The jobs created for the census were fake, and are now gone.  How has that helped? It was a bandaid, it was not sustainable, and now its over. Ill tell you how to get in touch with reality. Ive been doing this for a few years and its been quite an exercise. Go to job search clubs where professionals and executives meet. Go undercover, so you arent the celebrity there that steals the show. What you want to do is ask questions, and then listen.  There are some very, very smart people there.  There might even be some 99ers (you know, the ones you think are lazily sitting on the couch, smoking and twinkieing and cashing those unemployment checks?). Find out WHY they are unemployed. Find out WHY they havent been able to get jobs. Ask them what they think about the economy (they have a very realistic perspective). Ask them what they think would solve some of these economic problems (the answers will be less selfish than you might think). Ask and then LISTEN.  Just listen.  Dont make promises, dont give advice (because you arent really in a position of giving advice to them). LISTEN, and then think about it, and internalize the problem, and then try and come up with real policy that might help our country, and the world, during these rough economic times. Stop blaming past administrations, stop whining about who controls the House or the Senate, and how hard it is to work together. Stop coming up with overreaching federal policy that is more of an expensive bandaid than a sustainable solution. The reality you see, from reports and percentages and numbers and speculation, is far from the reality that we are living in. I challenge you to spend a few days on the road, attending these meetings, talking with these people, and getting a real perspective on whats happening and what could happen to fix it.