Prospects for Good Jobs for All Americans in Decline

Pragmatic job quality considerations should apply in regarding the realistic value of the opportunities for employment in the U.S.A. The prosperous not uncommonly have a 'let them eat cake' attitude toward job availability in the U.S.A. instead of anywhere globally returning highest personal profit. Like a sardonic pimp they may say that job quantities are more numerous than people available to fill them. People are real however, while mind and ideas about work for others possible in distant locations outside locality that the prosperous might imagine are easily accessible are not restricted to real, physical actualization.

I looked for a job in Anchorage Alaska for an entire year and could find nothing at all-not even in the seafood processing business. Sleeping in a tent in January I was supposed to go to Dutch Harbor to process fish for a Japanese corporation but the Seattle office kept telling me that they could not give me the itinerary to fly out via email like the had everyone else. Eventually they sent the itinerary to Wrangell Alaska about 700 miles away-completely useless. I spent the rest of the winter sleeping on the ground in a tent in Anchorage walking ten miles to the employment office and library on job searches without luck.

Possible numbers of jobs do not correlate to numbers of jobs that would actually better the situation of the unemployed.

President Bush said;'I have opinions of my own-strong opinions-but I don't always agree with them'. The prosperous may have strong opinions with or without understanding. Sometimes they need to reverse those opinions.

Some jobs at minimum wage in inner cities can realistically be filled only by those that don't need to pay rent. Some jobs can be filled by people living rent free with others, or perhaps by members of a given race living in ghetto housing paying very low rent that would be off-limits to other races.

The costs of travel and relocation to minimum wage jobs can bring immediate front-loaded increases of risk and loss of peripheral quality of life factors. It is also dubious that a family should relocate across the nation to an unfamiliar area to take one minimum wage job.

I personally rode a bike about 30,000 miles in the U.S.A. between 1994 and 2008 looking for regular, quality employment that I never did find. Instead I eventually transitioned into self-employed sporadic house painting and writing while continuing to search for some quality work. Not even 'dirty jobs' unless, one means illegal or immoral positions were commonly available . I have even worked recycling bottles in the Alburquerque plant-and that can be a very dirty job, and am not put off by working with trash of low or high quality. Being alumni of the Army chemical corps at least instructs one in cleaning up messy places.

One can scour the nation for work for years and find not even minimum wage jobs during good times as rare as bottles of ice water in the Mojave desert (a truck actually stopped and gave me several bottle of those when I was resting with my bike on a guard rail in the desert one hot August day). There are numerous factors that can make finding and keeping minimum wage work very difficult, and the reception that workers of different backgrounds, races, ages, education and health get can vary radically.

The U.S. economy today has an increasing element of decreasing money multiplier values from the people with concentrated wealth. In fact the U.S. economic structure today increasingingly exits simple to concentrate wealth amongst materially non-productive classes without passing reaching the hands of the poor. Banking, finance and Wall Street managers typically do not employee Americans directly when they have capital as might a prosperous farmer hire more hands in the 19th century. Instead they invest the capital abroad in foreign production. Wall Street corporate earnings today are at the highest level since 2001 yet real net job losses continue in the U.S.A., and only 57% of working age Americans are employed.

The immaterial, high paid sector charging fees on everything besides breathing creates only jobs in a service sector to itself at low wages. They may create these jobs only as a way to mollify the restive public. The Government administration of economic investment of effort has been lousy since the end of the cold war.

Before the 2008 banking-mortgage-insurance crisis and federal bailout the financial sector took 40% of Wall Street profits. The non-materially productive sector that dominates the U.S. economy is creating a two-class society of those insiders with easy money compounded through investment and financial networks, and everyone else.

As economists have pointed out machines and electronic technology have made it possible for very few people to produce all of the material needs required to sustain life. In fact a few inventive scientists may create an entire industry. Capital investors may need to merely finance a new technology corporations soon bought in to by other insiders to create more product output-probably in a nation abroad with cheapest labor globally. The local economic multiplier values of the dollar changing hands in America by the financial, banking and capital investment sectors can therefore be very low. Only as the non-material working class sector develops a scheme to employ more in service to itself with more luxury and power, medical support and so forth does it pass dollars along to the poor or working class searching for employment. And then it also allows millions of illegal aliens in to the nation to keep labor costs down. Even the housing bubble seems in retrospect to have been a rope-a-dope way to sell home mortgages to foreign interests such as the Chinese communist party.