US Job Applicant Shortage

I suspect a small group of Liberal Whiners from the US Chamber of Communists are supporting this scam.

Cable TV reports that there are 7.5 million jobs being advertised and only 5.8 million applicants for these jobs. There is no need to panic. I’ve seen this before working with US manufacturing for the past 50 years.

This is not a crisis. Most companies are working with community colleges and trade schools to provide specific training. Many are working with Temp Services to find regular employees.

Our “applicant lag” is longer, because we haven’t had many production jobs for decades and the last generation was trained to do government work we no longer need.

Our approach to lowering our welfare cost is to allow welfare recipients to lift themselves into full employment and they are slow to do this. Those who finally figure out who they are will choose careers soon.

The number of ads running is always higher than the actual hires. Many ads expire without being filled, because some jobs go to current employees. That generates another ad to backfill the opening these employees left. 

There are always engineering ads for the “perfect engineer” with rare experience in emerging technologies. When no resumes of “perfect engineers” arrive, companies will revert to training their own engineers to gain this expertise. This again results in a back-fill ad.

If the H1b visa system is actually functioning, we should be able to get all the technical and engineering applicants we need. We do need companies who will not give away all of their intellectual property to the Chinese government.

If the teenagers are really ready to return to their minimum wage summer and part-time jobs, we won’t need any more welfare migrants to fill lower skilled jobs.

We will have a glut of truck-driver openings and a dearth of qualified drivers.  This will go on until our oil and natural gas pipeline systems are built and this will take several years.

The US started off-shoring our manufacturing jobs in the 1960s starting with shoes, clothes and everything done by hand. By 2016 we had gutted our manufacturing jobs and impoverished rural cities and counties.  It took almost 60 years to give away these jobs and it should take a few years to restore the manufacturing, oil and natural gas extraction and engineering jobs we killed.

Our priority for job creation is no longer minimum wage and government jobs as it was from 2009 to 2016. We need to restore our steel, aluminum, auto, manufacturing equipment, electronic design and software development industries because they are related to our military defense.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader