Jim

This post rates a 5 in my opinion.  As adults, we need to take a stand on important issues.  This nation's unemployment rate is as important an issue as I can think of. 

Great Post Jim.....  When will they start outsourcing the NFL or the NBA?  How about Hollywood?  Seems that we live in a fake country lately.  I have had serious conversations with my family about Canada or Australia.  This country is failing from the inside out

An unemployment rate that was thought to be impossible a few years ago.  For DECADES, any unemployment rate under 6% was considered "full employment" and it was considered to be theoretically impossible to go under 5%.  And yet, here we are.  The lowest rates in history. 

Think about that for a little while.  It would be a completely different thing if we had an employment issue that we were dealing with, but it just isn't so.   

Louis and Ed, thanks for stopping by and your comments.

Lane, thank you too. I acknowledge that employment is high. Also high is the number of working poor, and the 2 or more job employees. I will argue that outsourcing is rarely a good thing, outsourcing skilled jobs is never a good thing, and saying it would be different if there was a current labor shortage ignores a point you brought up, obliquely. That would be the cycle of business and employment. I do remember when employment at this level was theoretically impossible, and would lead to huge inflation. I also remember unemployment spiking etc. I think we need to object to outsourcing in principle, or they will outsource everything but McDonalds jobs.

Jim

Correction.  McDonalds has started outsourcing it's drive through functions to India.  In many cases, when your ordering from your car, your speaking to someone in India.   I saw an article recently portraying this remarkably pathetic fact.

When discussing employment, I think we need to delve into the nature, and sustainability, of the jobs being created in the U.S. at this time.