Reply #114: even the GOP knows that we're in the shitter w/o jobs...i hear it every day at work

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they will tell you that the difference is they think the private sector has to provide them. well, the private sector has had years to do that and instead they send jobs overseas. a REAL jobs program -- one that aims to make shit, and fix our infrastructure, is what it's going to take to put people back to work. except for the housing bubble, most of the job growth in the last decade has been in brainiac jobs, which has left masses of skilled labor out in the cold.

there will be no recovery if the only jobs are for college grads and post grads. without manufacturing, construction and other forms of skilled labor we're kicking the can down the road...and without consumption, there's no road left b/c all those skilled workers went into the consumptive economy: restaurants, for instance.

Shiller is right.