The Bad News About Your Job

The numbers here are as bad as the numbers on the Global Stock Market. We, capitalists, have a penchant for inflating the price of anything WE want to sell, be it a comodity or just an idea.

US multinatinal corporations have contributed nothing to US job growth in the last 10 years and they are a drain on government resources demanding military and diplomatic protection for their world wide supply chain.

Its time to tax them more and to give more breaks to small business which is creating all the US new jobs.

This is fascinating. Like most things, trying to condense unemployment into a single number inherently loses a lot of information. These measures are much broader, and a lot more disconcerting!

It seems to me that in comparing the U. S. unemployment rate to that of other countries, & to our own in historical times, we should include some measure of those people who are not 'productively' contributing to our national economy. We have a higher percentage of our adult population behind bars than any other developed country. That effects any true comparison. For every one of those people we have others 'employed' guarding them, or maintaining those facilities, or building more such facilities. These people are taking home pay checks, but not truly contributing to our nattional economy. if we could better deal with some of our social problems, & get more people out from behind those bars, & then reduce the numbers of people 'employed' to watch them we could be much more productive as a nation. Until then we should be honest enough to admit that another country, with perhaps 10% fewer people behind bars, may really have a lower unemployment rate.