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sheshe2

(83,785 posts)
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 02:11 PM Dec 2013

Job Advice with Rand Paul



Recommended reading: this Ezra Klein post about the reality of unemployment in America today. The national average may be three job openings for every job seeker, but for many people it's worse than that:

Nationally, there are three job seekers for every one open position. But because unemployment is much higher in some cities than in others, the reality is that most people who've been unemployed for more than 26 weeks live in areas where there are four, five, six, seven and even eight job seekers for each open job. They're not being held back by their unemployment checks. They're being held back by mass unemployment.

But apparently the facts on the ground don't matter for someone with his head stuck in thick clouds of libertarian dogma.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/31/1266066/-Job-advice-with-Rand-Paul

The graphic is heartbreaking.
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Job Advice with Rand Paul (Original Post) sheshe2 Dec 2013 OP
What he is saying is that employers have a CHOICE...because there are so many out of work angstlessk Dec 2013 #1

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
1. What he is saying is that employers have a CHOICE...because there are so many out of work
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 06:02 PM
Dec 2013

they get to choose those who are out of work for 4 weeks vs 99 weeks...it has NOTHING to do with unemployment .....it is discrimination because the employer has SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM....

PROOF THAT WORKERS HAVE NO CHOICE EXCEPT UNEMPLOYMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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