"Mark Browne" wrote in message
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"NOYB" wrote in message
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How many reservists are you talking about? How many will actually be
reentering the job market and displacing other workers?

We have approximately 146.43 million potential workers in this country.
8.2
million of them are unemployed...giving us an unemployment rate of 5.6%.

If you add 150,000 people to our labor market (although there won't be
150,000 returning all at once), and NONE of them find a job (very
unlikely),
then we'd have an increase that wouldn't even be noticed by any of the
major
statistics that the BLS uses.

Example:
We'd then have 146.58 million workers
We'd have 8.15 million unemployed
We'd still have an unemployment rate of 5.6%!!!

The monthly job creation figures are in the 100,000 to 200,000 range.
Current estimates are 20,000 returning from the big sand box. Each of
these
people, directly or indirectly, will be competing for these new jobs.
Twenty
thousand is a fair sized number when balanced against the number of new
jobs
created.

It may not make a difference in your constant Pollyanna posts of how
wonderful things are, but if these folk experience the same kind of
problems
getting work that my sons are going through, that's a lot of pain.


I can't address your son's hardships since I don't know enough about them.
What skills do they have? Has there been a change in technology that might
have made those skills obsolete? What area in the country do they live in?
What area are they willing to move to? Do they expect to be paid the same
pay that they were receiving before they became unemployed? What,
specifically, could Bush have done differently which would have assured that
both of your sons could find employment?

Finger-pointing is easy. It's harder, sometimes, to look in the mirror and
find where the problem lies.