Change!… Media Warns That Millions of Jobs Will Vanish Forever Under Obama
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, May 14, 2010, 4:54 AM
How’s that hopey-changey stuff treating you?
Good bye America – Hello jobless quagmire.
The media warned America today that millions of jobs will vanish forever thanks to the new age of hopenchange. But, don’t worry because this “creative destruction” in the job market can benefit the economy. It only sucks if you’re one of the millions who have lost their job since Obama became president.
The New York Times reported, via Yahoo:
Many of the jobs lost during the recession are not coming back.
Period.
For the last two years, the weak economy has provided an opportunity for employers to do what they would have done anyway: dismiss millions of people — like file clerks, ticket agents and autoworkers — who were displaced by technological advances and international trade.
The phasing out of these positions might have been accomplished through less painful means like attrition, buyouts or more incremental layoffs. But because of the recession, winter came early.
The tough environment has been especially disorienting for older and more experienced workers like Cynthia Norton, 52, an unemployed administrative assistant in Jacksonville.
“I know I’m good at this,” says Ms. Norton. “So how the hell did I end up here?”
Administrative work has always been Ms. Norton’s “calling,” she says, ever since she started work as an assistant for her aunt at 16, back when the uniform was a light blue polyester suit and a neckerchief. In the ensuing decades she has filed, typed and answered phones for just about every breed of business, from a law firm to a strip club. As a secretary at the RAND Corporation, she once even had the honor of escorting Henry Kissinger around the building.
But since she was laid off from an insurance company two years ago, no one seems to need her well-honed office know-how.
Ms. Norton is one of 1.7 million Americans who were employed in clerical and administrative positions when the recession began, but were no longer working in that occupation by the end of last year. There have also been outsize job losses in other occupation categories that seem unlikely to be revived during the economic recovery. The number of printing machine operators, for example, was nearly halved from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2009. The number of people employed as travel agents fell by 40 percent.
This “creative destruction” in the job market can benefit the economy.
I bet you didn’t expect that when you voted for that hopey-changey stuff, now did ya?
Do you suppose the state-run media was saying the same thing when Jimmy Carter was president?
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P. Aaron commented:
Recession When your neighbor loses their job.
Depression When you lose your job.
Recovery When Obama loses his job.
Andreas K. commented:
Less jobs -> more people on the welfare state’s tits -> more people who think “why work?” -> less people who work -> renaming the US into “Greece 2.0″
eaglewingz08 commented:
Gee, wonder where this awesome excuse of ‘creative destruction’ was during Reagan’s, GHW Bush’s and George W. Bush’s economic downturns? Completely absent. In fact they were skewered every minute of everyday by the leftwing media for every sob story the media could lay their hands on. Again, where are all those laid off workers on the nightly news? They must have been abducted by aliens, or are in some new government protection program that renders them off limits to reporters (like the SCOTUS nominee’s brother). These are all so curious factoids, that connecting the dots, one might think the mainstream media had some sort of agenda, but that must be wrong or racist. I don’t know what I could be thinking.
Dean Kagan commented:
A few million lives destroyed is a small price to pay for destroying the unjust, racist economy.
Palinfan commented:
So the media say jobs are being wiped out, but don’t expect to see a single member of the media vote anything but Liberal Progressive come November. They never learn. Even when their own jobs are wiped out.
We on the other hand have the opportunity to vote Conservatives into power in November and demand that they repeal Obamacare for starters.
Larkin commented:
The media aren’t too worried about losing their jobs.
They’re counting on an obama bailout.
Jim commented:
Sorry, but I dont’ see this as so much of a bad thing. As the story said, employers would have done this anyway, and the downturn gave them the excuse to do it all at once. The fact that it all happened at once makes it difficult to deal with, but the fact that it happened at all is not bad. New technology has always destroyed less productive jobs in favor of new types of jobs. We don’t make many wagon wheels any more, and we shouldn’t pine for those jobs to come back either. Now, here’s where the problem is; the current administration’s policies don’t truly encourage new investment in new technology jobs (and I don’t mean “green” crap). We need to encourage businesses to produce, throw away the VAT and cap&trade BS, and let them find new ways to employ people in new industries. They will if you get out of their way.
J commented:
We have had a over a year of obama in action….and this is what we got (and three and a half years of the dem party being in control of the country). And the polls and intrade say we will re-elect him
God help us.
bill-tb commented:
They will return, as soon as Obama vanishes. Simple really.
Hey wasn’t the green shoots supposed to … aw never mind it’s was all Obama-Speak lies anyway.
Militant Conservative commented:
J
May 14th, 2010 | 6:55 am | #9
Carefull where you get your information. I travel and speak to hundreds of “flyover citizens”. Many tell me I’m a liberal or I’m a democrat but I can’t stomach what Obama is doing. I have had blacks that I have spoken to before the election. They admitted to voting for Obama and have apoligized to me as they now know I was speaking truth to them not beating up on Obama because of color. Your witnessing a tsunami in the making and Conservatives are going to win BIG in November.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Their intention was to destroy the evil capitalist system, force millions out of work, and via “global warming” rehire them all by shifting the entire economy to a green-jobs system with them each personally pocketing untold billions as investors in the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). Quite devious actually.
Those millions who lost their jobs are just cannon fodder now that global warming has been exposed as a fraud and a hoax.
The Triguy commented:
Jim,
There is some truth to what you are saying with regard to businesses cutting staff due to the changing the focus of our economy. But don’t forget that the vast majority of jobs that are being created are government jobs. In some instances, these jobs could have gone to the private sector (I know, because the federal government is a direct competitor of my company). I see no compelling business reason why a government job should be created when a private sector job will do. I also know that private sector jobs (when successful) create more jobs. Government jobs do not. They only create additional voting blocks.
Stop the growth of government jobs and watch the private sector start to expand.
Andreas K. commented:
Remember.
This is all for the “greater good”
Britny commented:
Hoop skirts have pretty much disappeared too.
Moonbat_One commented:
Normally this is no big deal, because the American economy is so so dynamic. Or was dynamic.
Few people work in agriculture or manufacture horse drawn carriages, the railroad industry is no longer a major sector of the economy. But are we poorer for it? But now there is ‘change’ and the capricious, vicious, and clueless federal government now that looks at everything in terms of electoral advantage and union protectionism first, and can’t understand or hates private enterprise. It has been devastating to the job creation power of the American economy.
Ben K commented:
Dream Team: Palin/Christie.
Chippy commented:
Obama only cares about Wall Street. He was partying and fundraising with them last night in NYC. He has the mindset to screw main street. And he is doing it.
Mary commented:
The real problem is that retraining can do very little when the employers can pick up employees with actual experience in the field. sigh
Robert commented:
Glenn Beck came out with an
interesting little factoid recently.
The patent for the Chicago
Climate Exchange is owned by …
.
.
.
Fannie Mae.
Robert commented:
So far this fiscal year, the federal government has spent almost $800 billion more than it has taken in. That equals $6,824 per household.
5 months left to go, how much will you owe by September?
Andreas K. commented:
You’re still off better than the UK Robert.
Every child in the UK is, right now, born with more than 23,000 Pounds debt.
Robert commented:
I do not know who would win this grim contest. The figure stated is only for official government deficit spending for 7 months. When you factor in unfunded future liabilities it goes well into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Politicians are making promises faster than they can even be calculated, let alone kept.
A severe restriction in benefits is in order. And rather than the patch of applying to future beneficiaries, current recipients should also bear costs, since it is they who have allowed the system to become so overburdened with liabilities.
Any of you retirees here want to take that one on?
Jim commented:
Triguy,
I don’t dispute that more gov jobs are taking away from private sector, but that’s not what this article is about. This article is about jobs that went away, not that went to the gov. The government jobs haven’t gone away; they are still a valid need, and they can return to the private sector when the socialists are gone. We should not only hope for that, but we should bring it about by voting. However, my original point is still strong; jobs that have gone away because of technology should not return, nor should we want them. To complain that these types of jobs will not return is like wishing we could get rid of computers, robotics, the assembly line, tractors on farms etc. All of these technologies destroyed jobs that are never coming back. Without these technologies, we’d have high employment and a low standard of living.
kay commented:
buggy makers, horse poop cleaners, and IBM selectric typewriter fixers are also out of jobs. their job titles have changed to car manufacturers, city waste pick up, and computer technicians.
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as for the admin assistant (formerly known as secretary) who is 52. well, i have 2 sides to this: when we moved from chicago right as obama was moving in, my mom and dad had been self employed for 20 years. after moving my mom had the secretarial skills and she was 50 when she was hired after answering an ad for the local college – the problem was it was part time so she had to find another job. So this 50 year old woman who had been self employed for 20 years now had to work 2 jobs and she had to work for less than she had made. First she had to CONVINCE them that she wasn’t going to fly out the door at the first chance she got for a new job that paid more and had better benefits.
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Now that I’m the one that approves hiring after they get run through my office mgr’s interviews, I can tell you that we would love to hire people in their 40s and 50s because of their work ethic vs. their counterparts at 20s and 30s. However, the amount we can offer is often WAY below what the 40′s/50′s year olds have made and wereas they would fit in perfectly, pick up the job requirements quickly, you can see it in their eyes that they are disappointed at the salary and the lack of benefits that don’t kick until you’ve been with us for 2 years. A few have come on board with us and then have left within 3 weeks for another job, so we were a stop gap and then we have to start all over. A few have stuck it out for 4 months and then left, then claimed unemployment benefits that we fired them. After the first denial by us, the state usually ends up charging our account and paying them for their tenacity in showing up at the dept. of econ. security. Now, admittedly, these also happen with 20somethings too as they seem to think that a bachelor of arts degree in music is equivalent to $40k and I had to laugh as this job was paying $10 an hour or $20k a year. I still remember her outrage as she stood in front of us and wailed “how can you expect me to live on that?”. Well, if nobody will pay for $6 cup of coffee, then we have to lower it to $4 and if not then $3 and you’ll have to take a paycut to $8/hour and make $16k a year.
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Didn’t anyone teach these kids economics of the simplest sorts – like how to budget?
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
The problem is that we are now a nation that doesn’t really produce anything. We went from being a manufacturing society to being a “service” econonmy, wherein we all try to scratch out a living by scratching each other’s backs. In an economy like this, when jobs are lost, there aren’t necessarily going to be a lot of new ones taking their place. And that means a lot of people, out of work, without the money to buy lots of those swell, new computerized gadgets. And that’s going to mean a very poor society, in the long run. So much for “higher standards of living.”
A lot of those wonderful robotics thingies, and computers, are now made in places like China. We import much of our food, and illegal immigrants are taking a lot of the low-level, service jobs—with many others being outsourced to places like India.
As for wanting to hire older people, but having to put up with younger, self-indulgent 20-somethings, who don’t know how to budget—what can I say? You get what you pay for. If you don’t want your employees flying out the door, make it worth their while to stick around!
Terry Grinnalds commented:
You idiot! The New York Times quote refers to the poor economy, not to Obama, as the excuse employers will be using to dismiss employees. Your remember the poor economy. It got that way during W’s reign, after years of being a great economy under Clinton. Besides, why do you care? As a good conservative Republican, you obviously believe it is employers’ God-given right to fire anyone they want., even if it’s a month before retirement. (Remember, it is liberal PC’ers that passed the laws that gave even limited protection to workers,and shame on them, right?).