Wednesday, October 12, 2011

"Get A Job You..." Get WHAT Job?

I was browsing Facebook for a few minutes today and stumbled across this site. While the message is amusing and (mostly) correct, I noticed several errors of argument in the title picture. I'll start with the third passage of the title picture.

First off, the Biology degree. According to the US DoL statistics, there are roughly 91,000 biology jobs available in the United States. That's 91,000 jobs for 307 million people. That biology degree is going to face some very fierce competition for an actual position. Of those, fourty percent are government jobs. The girl should be on the Marxist's side. Socialism and communism are all about socialization of the means of production, and scientific research is one of those.

Second, I'll point out the end of ther comment about NYC alleys. Unemployment levels in the US are entirely reliant on the unemployment recording system and all of its limits. A lot of people on unemployment are currently expirigin. Once you expire, you no longer report to the office. The actual numbers are much higher. So yes, they should all go 'get a job sweeping at McDonald's"... Or should they? There are no jobs to be had. Not really. The government's seen to that. Most economists that study events IN their historical context (Keynesian ones, such as Krugman, seem to conveniently ignore the externalities in the equation) have pointed out that government regulation and higher taxes have chased many jobs overseas, and continue to do so. Its basic economics. A business is making money for two reasons. One, somebody created it and set it in motion. Two, to make money. If you make moneymaking difficult or impossible, it will go where it is possible. You want to keep its business, you make it easier to do business. By regulation and taxing business, the United States government has forced many jobs to go to India and Ireland, just to name a few, where both are much lower. And why shouldn't they? Don't business owners have a right to the hard work they poured into their company? Well, they should, at any rate. So the image's letter should be telling them to protest Washington to bring jobs back and deregulate business.

As for the protestors, they're idiots. I haven't seen one yet that can bring out an intelligent interview or back their claims.

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