Why US Jobs Are Lost…Just Think About It

I’ve been wanting to stay out of this one, but enough is enough…I have to rant, and might as well do it here! The United States is in serious trouble with too many people without jobs. This is a concern for us all–and to me, it’s so clear why!

I read this article on yahoo about 1 in 7 Americans live in Poverty. That’s just insane, and I’m frankly getting tired of people blaming the President, Congress, politics, etc., and not realizing that WE, the actual Americans living in America are the problem and the solution at the same time! Let me break it down for y’all:

The Real Reason America is losing jobs is because of the Americans
Think about about it for a moment: why are we losing jobs? Well there’s not enough people buying U.S. made consumer stuff, and that’s because our U.S. made stuff has an over-inflated price, so we go for the cheap stuff, the overseas stuff or next door country stuff. We go for the cheap stuff, so U.S. businesses aren’t selling as much stuff so they have to cut down on costs.
Let’s leave the stuff word out for a moment and focus on the micro situation. Businesses have many reasons to lay workers off. Low sales volumes, high fixed/variable costs…This is old news!
That’s why nobody’s listening.
These were the reasons businesses were laying off people back in the 50′s! With all the new technology and advances that exist today, it’s no wonder why people are out of a job; computers, the internet, and even my phone has taken jobs of all the people around my neighborhood.
We have become a nation who has the word efficiency on its right pocket. We have 2 CPA’s and 2 computers doing the job of 40, we have 2 computer savvy HR people maintaining what was once a 20 crew HR team, we have robotic machinery with one gal pushing buttons and other inspecting material that was originally built by 100 steel workers.

It’s like eating burgers, fries, and a 40oz. Coke every meal of the day in front of a TV blaming my fat ass on Obama while my running shoes collect dust and my treadmill is plugged into the wall with all it’s blinking lights in glory pulsing 0.00 on it’s bright freakin’ LED. A high calorie diet with low body movement is how our nation is running. The diet being the efficiency and the low body movement being the business as usual concept.

Efficiency is great. I can’t diss it. But if everything were efficient, then an economy would not work. And if work were efficient, we should rename it; call it ‘unwork’. If a production company ran on 4 employees, then the cost of products should be low, but it isn’t! Things cost on average 3 times as much as they did 20 years ago. So the only thing I can blame this economy on is on all the businesses that only care only about the bottom line; fattening one to three people’s pockets at a time–and those other business that do business as usual, or better yet, those business that adapt to technological efficiency but keep their prices high. Some call it capitalism, I think of it as greed.

Don’t mistaken me an anti-American, I love my country! This place is wonderful with all it’s 50 stars; this is a call for concern.

What I propose is that we, as Americans, find a way to slow things back down. Just a tad. Find a way to go back to “those simple times of yesterday, when a man was a man, and a friend was a friend.” -Babyface Quoted

Again some efficiency is good–like a dishwasher, man I love my dishwasher–things that free our time to actually work and be productive in something, well, productive. And I think being productive is the lesson here. Efficiency can free our time and space, but turning around and then saying, “ok, now that I don’t have to wash dishes for a half hour, I will use this time to learn to play the piano.” Something along those lines, you get what I’m saying right? Not this, “ok, now that I don’t have to wash dishes for a half hour, I’m gonna go put the TV on and sleep in front of it.”

Do you see the difference? Businesses can take a proactive approach to business and say, “now that we have this nifty machine that auto welds and frees up 20,000 workers, let’s put all these workers in a new field. Let’s train some of them for sales, customer service, design, innovation!”

And instead of saying, “I’m sorry, but you’re going to be part of a statistic of unemployed by tomorrow,” they can easily say, “look, the position you’re in right now has become obsolete, but we are offering free training if you want to go into sales or HR or customer service, design, innovation. You won’t be getting paid during training, but pass all the training and you’ll have a job with us again.”

This would give jobs again, fix the economy, and strengthen that same business with people that know that company’s product and it won’t cost any more than some time and a teacher. We got ourselves into this, we have to get ourselves out. And blaming just Obama for this, when he’s just one man trying to help our fat ass get off the couch, that’s fucked up. And don’t tell me John McCain would’ve done better, Ha.