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Originally Posted by Princess Doreen
What are the choices then? Take a lesser paying job or go on welfare?
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There are not enough of even "lesser paying" jobs right now for the number of unemployed we have times five, even if every single one of them was willing to wash cars or work the midnight shift at McDonalds.
Retraining is expensive and takes time. If you are an unemployed systems analyst making $80K/year, retraining as a licensed insurance salesmen is an option, sure. A CPA? Or you could work as a car detailer I suppose.
We've lost the large manufacturing base we used to have in this country, jobs that paid a wage where someone could support their family. In the northeast corridor you could graduate high school and go to work at the factory, and you knew you could work there for life, and advance if you were sharp.
We've lost that, and although we should be replacing that with growing or innovative tech industry-oriented jobs (think computers, green energy, etc), we in the US dig in our heels and don't seem eager to embrace such.
Meanwhile we continue to fall off educationally, taking us further out of science/research/medicine type fields internationally.
Seems the USA's fastest-growing and most thriving industry right now might be the cooking, serving, and eating of fast junk food. (Edit: which is why the healthcare industry is about 1/5 of our economy)