No new jobs being created, just existing going part time times 2!
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17797)
United States
March 8, 2013 7:36pm CST
Don't let it fool you and don't believe it. Currently, the news channels are saying unemployment is down. Well, first they are not telling you that part of that is cause thousands have arun out of their unemployment benefits.. and are off the rooster so they are no longer counted as "unemployed" even tho they are
But...more than that.. they are saying that thousands of jobs have been "created" in this last months...something like 230,000. What they ARE NOT TELLING YOU is that probably most of those jobs are PART TIME JoBS! And because of Obama care and companies not being able to afford it so they don't hire full time employees, they hire part time employees...and for less than the cost of one full time employee, they can get 2, count'um TWO part time employees! So yeah, unemployment is down, jobs are being created...but they are PART TIME jobs...two part time jobs equal one full time job..so yeah, people are getting jobs, but they are PART TIME. You can't live on a part time job! You can't support a family on a part time job. You get no benefits on a part time job...not even holiday pay for working a holiday!
So when you hear how many jobs have been "created"...don't fall for it..understand it...when people run out of unemployment they will take a part time job as it is better than nothing and all they can get. Even public jobs with the government are going part time. They are not called "part time" or advertised as a "part time position", they are called "internship job".
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10 responses
@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
9 Mar 13
It doesn't really matter because they pretty much will kill any job growth with the sequester. Many people seems to think the sequester was over blown, but when they are predicting close to 3 quarter of a million job losses. To me that is just not a responsible policy. As usual this will not touch the rich but will just make the working classes life all that more miserable. Apparently that is how we rate how well the country is doing. That being how well the rich are doing. What about the rest of us?
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
9 Mar 13
But if they'd stop taxing the rich, those rich people didn't get rich on their own..they got that way cause they hired people to do the work for them that made them rich. They put up the monitary investment to put bunch of people to work to create the return on their investment which makes their income. The more they do that, the richer they will become. When was the last time you or someone you know, worked for a poor man? When was the last time your pay check came out of the bank account of a poor man? I followed the sequester, but didn't understand alot of it, and still don't, but I do see it shook up capital hill a bit and that is what is needed to maybe do some things.
Go ask Donald Trump for a job and he'll tell you he doesn't have one available. Ask him why and he'll tell you that he won't make any money cause the interest rates are to high and the cost of doing business is to high that by the time he pays all that, he hasn't made any money. No one, rich or poor will work for free.
@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
9 Mar 13
You know who employs most people is the middle class. Not rich people. People seem to think its rich people for some reason. Donald Trump is a greedy b@stard and I could care less what that man thinks because he only cares about himself or people who will make him more money. Donald Trump is the problem.
You say taxes stop people from hiring. People only hire when they have to. Taxes do not matter. No one is going to hire some one if they do not need them. Here let me lower your taxes and I will take in good faith that you will hire people you do not need. Sorry the only reason people hire people is to make more money. The tax thing is a lie has always been a lie and always will be a lie.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
9 Mar 13
"they are predicting close to 3 quarter of a million job losses"
Really? I thought it was 170 million. Are you still believing all this bull about job losses after the government has lied to you again and again about jobs? Here's a good article that lays out how stupid the claim that 750,000 jobs will be lost is.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2013/03/01/sequester-costs-750000-jobs-from-those-who-gave-us-the-four-million-job-stimulus/
@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
9 Mar 13
I have a post of today about this issue and the link to it on cnn
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
9 Mar 13
Disgusting, isn't it...the way the media doesn't tell the whole truth, and people believe it!
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
9 Mar 13
I know several people who are unemployed. Some are just waiting for unemployment to run out before they start looking for a job, they have been unemployed before and they know how the game is played. Then there is Sam the father of two boys and he is working any part time or tempory job to provide for himself and his two boys. One of my friends lost her teaching job when the the school she was working fro consilated with another district and there were no teaching jobs in the area. She started writing a blog on the internet and then helped develop web pages and now works part time writing for web pages. She also handles social media for small business. She found a nich and turned it into a job and is making a living, it is not a l6 figure job but she is abel to pay her bills and put a little away each month. In hard times people have to be creative and not waite fro the government to come and make everything right for them.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
10 Mar 13
I know..all this "unemployment is down..." news...but what they don't say is that it is seasonal, and if not gone, will be by next month! Obama kept saying how many jobs he "created" but he wasn't telling, and people weren't thinking...that it was seasonal jobs, the census takers jobs, summer jobs...yes, jobs were created, he wasn't lieing, but...he didn't continue the paragraph and admit that those jobs are either gone or will be gone soon and unemployment will be back up!
@dandan07 (1906)
• China
9 Mar 13
It is common here.
Our government now is busy in printing money, now we are told that our GDP growing up rapidly every year, while our income stay the same and we can buy less things before.
The data can tell something,, but most of time, it is just a tool to fool people.
In most cases, to judge the situation, we have to give up data and use our common sense.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
10 Mar 13
I agree, however, There is no common sense in Capital Hill. Those guys sit there and give themselves a raise every year...while unemployment is (in actuality if they include those that ran out of unemployment but still looking) double digits. Where is the common sense in that? That is just greediness.
@natliegleb (5173)
• India
9 Mar 13
even though it is part time,we can indulge our time effectively in resource utilisation and make it more realistic
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
10 Mar 13
There isn't much to utilize in $8 an hour. I know, I've lived it before.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
9 Mar 13
Hi coffee, this is the v reason why there are a lot of things I do not believe in media. It was always the case for us here in the Philippines too. They hype some things up and in reality it was not even close to the scare they cause people this is what they do so people would stick to their reports waiting for updates.
The only good thing this does really is people can be cautious. But for positive news supposedly.... It gives people hope. EvEn if it was probably half baked.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
9 Mar 13
But it is false hope. THey hear unemployment dropping yet wonder why they don't have a job or why the economy isn't better...everyone is working! I think people just don't pay attention.
@stealthy (8181)
• United States
9 Mar 13
I figured as much. They never count the ones who have gone off of unemployment and the ones who have given up and quit looking. I became unemployed in 1989 a few months before I got married. Then we were both looking since the whole department where we worked was going away. She finally got an offer because of affirmative action at a place we had both applied even though they didn't have an opening. They gave the job I applied for to someone younger. I was 13 years older than my new bride and I put her career ahead of mine and didn't look elsewhere(across the country) since we had just gotten married and I didn't want to be far away from her. Well there were no jobs where be were and then after five years we got divorced. So I have been unemployed since 1989 with some relief for those five years when I was married. I never took a penny of unemployment. But I have always been frugal and saved so I have been able to live off of my investments. Even when I was married, it was my money that went toward the down payment on a house and I contributed half toward buying her a new car. Although I probably could have gotten alimony since she had been working and I hadn't been, I didn't ask for any. So my story shows that if you live frugally, save and invest, you can get by just fine.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
9 Mar 13
Yes you can and good for you for your success at it. But at the same time.. living frugal is only, in my opinion...a way to survive, not progress. I am frugal and do all the money saving things...just finished cutting all my grocery coupons from the newspaper and online and if the prices are right, I will save about $20 off my $250 grocery bill. That is a tank of gas, well 3/4 tank and that is good, but still..won't get me anywhere. And if I have an unexpected emergency like the fridge going out, it won't help me get a replacement. or if I need car repairs...can't even get a flat fixed for $20! I am here on Mylot and do surveys for cash and the coupons and discount this and that.. just got $140 worth of fabric for $70 half price with coupons...and am making quits and pillow cases and trying to sell them for extra income. no car payment as I paid it off 5 years ago..it is now 13 years old and hopefully will last a few more, should as I have taken good car of it, but still...if anything major goes wrong, I am sunk.
@jambi462 (4576)
• United States
9 Mar 13
Yeah it's great having to piece together multiple jobs just so people can try and get some kind of decent hours and be able to survive. I don't really see it as companies not being able to afford Obamacare but more that companies don't want to pay any more than they have to for their employees. I don't think that this was the intention that Barack had when he was trying to get us all better options for health care but that's just how things worked out.
We have to remember that in our simple low paying jobs there are big time corporate heads that are making a ridiculous amount of money and they call all the shots pretty much. Everything trickles down from them and if they aren't making the money that they want to make or there paychecks are going down then it's easier for them to cut other people's hours rather than take a hit to their own pocketbooks. As long as we continue to allow CEO's and mostly the people that don't actually do any physical labor or anything I would call actual work to make all the money we will all be stuck in the same futile situation.
The best thing we can do is push ourselves and invest in ourselves to somehow get out of these crappy job situations.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
10 Mar 13
Yeah, you are right, but that is how it has been for eternity...the big wigs make the most....yet they never admit to the fact that if it wasn't for those peons of low pay scale that do all the grunt work for them..they wouldn't be where they are nor would their company! But you can't get them to admit it, muchless do anything about it.
@randylovesdar (4932)
• United States
9 Mar 13
I know it is sad that the unemployment rates are so inaccurate. many people have given up on looking for work and most part-time jobs do not help pay for anything. I am a college graduate with two Master's Degrees and I cannot find work. I have applied to several preschools and am told that I have too much education and no prior experience in working with young children. I am wondering how can I obtain experience if nobody will give me a chance. It is terrible that I am working hard studying hard and cannot find work in my field. I am worried about not being able to get health insurance. Randy only has insurance because he was a Veteran and gets insurance through the Veterans Administration.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
9 Mar 13
Oh I know randylovesdar... when I first started working, I was in the same boat...kind of. I had no experience at all in anything but I knew I could learn and learn fast and could do the job etc. But I wouldn't get hired cause of no previous experience. Well, how the heck am I supposed to get experience if no one will hire me so I can collect experience!
But it is even worse in your case...all that education and nothing. But I have always said that book learning isn't always the best way to learn something. What is says in the book isn't always, and often seldom, the way it goes or should be or can be handled. Back in the day you had to have an education to get a job, now you have to have experience.
I wish you luck. I know it is hard and yeah, PT work is next to nothing..once you pay your way to work and taxes...you have next to nothing anyway, so why work part time at all? But they figure people will get 2 part time jobs...and all will be fine, but what they aren't getting is that employers don't want an employee working another job..for fear it will interfere with their job there. And no employer is going to adjust the work hours around your other job.
