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Though John Kerry poo-pooed it, many a spirit was uplifted in Illinois when the news came that Illinois led the nation in job creation for the month of April. Sure, there were some that scratched their heads and wondered where the jobs were (aside from the newest fast food restaurant to set up shop next door—potato, potahto). But still, it was nice to hear that the state’s economy isn’t as bad as all the others.
Well, add another thread to the silver lining, especially if you’re a techie. According to a job site for tech pros, 
Chicago has shown some outstanding gains in IT jobs in 2006—an increase of 26.6%. Not everyone is a software engineer, or a functional analyst, or even a SAP portal senior technical consultant, but, well, some people are.
Really, the rest of the country is still in the stinker, with many people living in shantytowns called “Hoovervilles” and singing songs about how they were promised turkey in a pot. Not that Illinois is the best or anything, but Bush did point out that there were 74,000 jobs added in the Chicago area over the past two years. Nothing was said about whether these were jobs that didn’t even replace by half the amount that have been lost in the past few years, but, ah—let’s just let the technical professionals have a moment in the sun.
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Jeez, If we can just force companies to hire unskilled labor high paying jobs this world would be perfect. Maybe, we can have the Chicagoist hire homeless people to be editors. Screw that, let force everyone to donate money (like 95% of our take home pay) to the government so they can hire more workers. The government understands that we don't have any clue on how to spend money and they can spend it fast and wiser than us.
From the People's Cube:
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=344&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
The key to understanding this is that we are living in a world of shortages. We are running out of land, natural resources, food, water, and just about everything else. In fact, our only surplus (besides Republicans) is labor. There are too many people and not enough jobs. Cheap and plentiful labor is another reason for unemployment. That is also obvious.
There are many solutions:
- Of course, raise taxes and a demand a humane minimum wage. When companies have to pay more for labor that they have no use for, employment will increase.
- Ban trade with other nations -- and especially China. Chinese workers are taking jobs away from Americans. Better that they should immigrate here and then join the labor pool. Again, obvious.
- Increase government employment to take up the slack. When taxes are put towards increased public employment (say, creating three jobs that used to be done by one person) we have win-win: The unemployed find themselves in useful employment -- and the public gets to pay more taxes.
- Unionize. Have you ever heard of an unemployed union man/woman? It doesn’t happen. Even better: Nationalize unions; i.e., create one large union that represents all employees everywhere. That way, a single employment grievance can shut the entire nation down.
- Ban development in cities, in suburbs, and everywhere else.
- Large corporations need to watched, regulated, and punished. Wal-Mart in particular needs to understand that it must pay their employees much more, and must promise to never fire anyone -- especially the most vulnerable: blacks, Hispanics, Asians, the young, the old, women, gays, lesbians, alternative genders, union organizers, progressives, the physically challenged, the mentally challenged, felons, and arsonists of all criminal categories. Generally speaking, corporations must also stop all expansion, and even better, contract and shut down.
The stench of straw in here is overpowering.
Please tell me that joe comrade is joking.
Holy shit, I love Annie...'We'd like to thank you Herbert Hoover, for really showing us the way"...I agree with joe on raising taxes, demanding a humane minimum wage, unionizing, and watching large corps. But the other suggestions are a little crazy.
dammit. mike stole my post.
To I Hate Dallas.
I think that www.thepeoplecube.com will be a great source of knowledge and understanding for a great person like you. If we have more comrades like you in this world, everyone can be equal with out even trying. Socialism is the only way to make the rich people give back the money that they stole.
-Retrogression for all
Joe Comrade