Now I understand the appeal of Obama to the teenage slackers

[Coburn In 2012]

Lets see.

Last year your dad suggested that you should get a summer job in 2009.

You're a slacker and didn't want to "work," so you supported Obama for President in the hope that there wouldn't be any summer jobs for teens in 2009.

Well, Mr, Hopey-Changey has delivered...

Teenage Jobs Wasteland
Joshua Zumbrun, 07.02.09, 03:45 PM EDT
Not since 1965 has it been so hard for teens to get work.

WASHINGTON -- Think an unemployment rate of 9.5% is bad? It could be worse. You could be a teenager.

For teenagers, the summer job market has not been so bleak in generations. During what should be the start of the bustling summer job season, the unemployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds who want work is 24%--the worst since 1965.

The outlook for teen jobs is so bleak that it's weighing down the entire employment report, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Thursday. The country is headed for an entire decade with no job growth. In June, the report showed unemployment climbed to 9.6% from 9.5%, and 467,000 jobs were lost, thanks in large part to the decline in jobs for teens.

"The biggest problem [in the report] was that the summer job market for teenagers was nonexistent," says Joel Naroff, of Naroff Economic Advisors, in a note. "The 24% unemployment rate for this group was the second-highest since the end of World War II. While teenagers comprise only 4% of the workforce, they made up over 22% of the increase in unemployment in June."

In June, there were 5.6 million jobs for teenagers, down from 6.3 million a year ago, and nowhere near the level of the late 1990s, the golden age for teen employment. In July of 1999, there were a record 8.8 million working teens.

"The economy has, of course, been bad for the restaurants and retail stores in which many teens work, but more is at play," says Kristen Lopez Eastlick, senior research analyst for the Employment Policies Institute. "The general unemployment rate is so much higher that your hiring market is going to be represented with more experienced workers. Your unskilled worker, like your teen, can end up in competition with experienced applicants."

Carl,

thanks for some very important food for thought.  Very good post.

[Coburn In 2012]

Its sad how lefties don't seem to mind the harm their policies inflict on those who are most vunerable.

You know I never use to get that but I do now.  its like with welfare.  The so called great society didn't help the blacks or poor people it just helped to keep them all poor.  Republicans have had better ideas like makeing people pull themselves up by thier own boot straps.  Some times the old sayings are true.  You can give a man a fish and he will eat for a day (and become dependant on you for his next fish) or you can teach a man to fish and he will feed himself for a life time.

the democRAT plan is to give free handouts.  the Republican plan is to promote responsability, self sufficiency and hard work.

[Coburn In 2012]

Carl,

thanks for some very important food for thought.  Very good post.

Ah, we now have official confirmation that this is a joke thread

Sorry.  I forgot the rule.

If liberals disagree with it, it's a joke thread.  my bad

[Coburn In 2012]

Its sad how lefties don't seem to mind the harm their policies inflict on those who are most vunerable.

You know I never use to get that but I do now.  its like with welfare.  The so called great society didn't help the blacks or poor people it just helped to keep them all poor.  Republicans have had better ideas like makeing people pull themselves up by thier own boot straps.  Some times the old sayings are true.  You can give a man a fish and he will eat for a day (and become dependant on you for his next fish) or you can teach a man to fish and he will feed himself for a life time.

the democRAT plan is to give free handouts.  the Republican plan is to promote responsability, self sufficiency and hard work.

Silly, there's no such thing as a "free handout" because it's been paid for through taxes.

I stand totally corrected.  Thank you. you are right.