The Coming Obamacare Shock for 170 Million Americans

[Mr Khan]

Mr Puggsly said:

Mr Khan said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Nope, there are plenty of jobs not being filled.

Anyone who is healthy and can't find a job is doing something wrong. I was recently offered three jobs because I make an effort and try to develop skils employers want.

If you're a healthy person capable of working, there is little excuse to be in poverity. Most poverty is a result of bad choices.

It's a macro game. There are about 4 million open jobs in this country right now http://www.epi.org/publication/jobs-60-percent-job-seekers/, and about 10.2 million job-seekers (and that's just *job seekers*, not those who have given up on job-seeking due to the poor economy, the ones uncounted in the unemployment rate). This means that if we eliminated things like geographical problems (many of those seekers might not live where the jobs are), there would still be about 6.2 million people who are shit out of luck because there are simply not enough jobs for everyone.

Or have you polled 10.2 million job seekers to cover your little anecdote there?

I call bullshit, I don't think they can actually determine how many opportunities are available.

Anyhow, lets wait for those 4 million jobs to be filled before we piss and moan about no jobs being available.

"I don't like the real numbers so I will just ignore them."

Secondly, there are always going to be job openings. Structural unemployment is a thing, due to many companies being quite willing to wait for the "perfect candidate" even if it means leaving a position unfilled for years. Also, there could be a thousand jobs in your field in Seattle, but none in Memphis, but you don't want to leave Memphis because your girlfriend does have a good job there, so you keep looking in Memphis instead of just picking up and going to where it could easily be found.

The zero lower bound for unemployment is realistically around 3-4% for that reason. However, in a "full employment" situation, there are fewer seekers than openings, or at least close to a 1:1 ratio.

You're really not interested in having a fair argument about this, are you?