When are the new college grad age kids going to realize that the US job market is a wasteland?

that the multicultural, diversity, equal rights for everyone propaganda has all been a lineof bs to help facilitate the exodus of real jobs from America to lower wage countries..and the future in here is bleak..will after many years of hardship and anger open the eyes of the people....

Hmm...I think you are a bit confused. Maybe you watch too much Fox News? :) *lol*

I don't really see diversity *or* civil rights having a damn thing to do with outsourcing. I am only saying this as someone with a mood disorder that society has given up on (really, the local social service systems *will not* do a damn thing for me outside of shoveling workbooks at me), who lives in public housing and *has* about 70% non-caucasian neighbors (saying that to protect people's privacy, among other things).

I really think that the massive unemployment and social disorder that outsourcing causes is more of a top-down, CEO- and HMO- triggered problem than it is a bottom-up thing.

I mean, really, who makes the decision to outsource jobs to India and China where folks suck up endlessly for fifty cents an hour (because it beats fifty cents a DAY in other pursuits!) and the "privilege" of working in an old-school, smokestack-laden house of filth...? Who decides? It isn't us, it isn't even the politicians.

It's the companies. They are the ones out of control, have been for the past 26 years now courtesy of Reaganism and that whole "let the rich guys own it all" mentality. You know, that "Greed is Good, people are worthless" thing?

So what do you do? This isn't just a college-grad issue anymore, nor even a laid-off factory worker issue.

In fact, since outsourcing things to the bone and then to the *marrow* of the bones is now hitting the youngest and freshest of our workers...I daresay this is an issue that you'd think *should* be speaking to *everyone* and *anyone* who would work for a living....not just those few who are currently allowed to courtesy of appeasing their societal abusers mind you.

Anyone who *wants* to work but can't because HMOs are waging war against real people with real mental illness by denying ALL care. Anyone who *wants* to work but can't because child care is too expensive to pay for 100% out of pocket. Anyone who wants to work but can't because it involves working for LESS THAN minimum wage courtesy of the overbearing presence of Those FELON Immigrants among us that the Rich and Filthy WILL NOT get rid of, in flagrant defiance of that Rule of Law they SAY they love so much....

You'd think that anyone who WANTS to work, at all, on any terms, around here, would not only be concerned, but up in arms, out in the streets about to wreck shite, right?

You'd think that would be the case....it isn't. Because our Media is that messed up. Because the CEOs pay handsomely to get Public figures and Popular culture to get those ordinary citizens, that bottom 80% (that is EIGHTY PERCENT) of the populace they hate so much, at each *other's* throats instead of their own....

We will only, ONLY be able to stop the Corporatist Menace, the devolution of America, into Mussolini-style Corporatism, once we have it in us to Put the TV and the News and half the Internet on IGNORE, and to set aside our petty and hypocritical hatreds of each other long enough to hunt down and *deal with* the Suits the way Kurt Vonnegut said we should at the tail end of his short story _Player Piano_.

Read it yourself, it is a *really* short story, and you can ignore the first, out-of-date 75% of it to get to the end where what he is saying matters most....

But yeah. Less attacking each other and following the idiots like your Jerry Falwells (what did he say the DAY OF 9-11?), your Pat Robertsons (what's this about his wanting 60% of America *dead*?), your Rush Limbaughs (shouldn't he be in prison, for being a druggie--he did say so *HIMSELF*?), your Bill O'Reillys (ha, there's a real fan of free speech right there--sarcasm, gotta love it!), and of course....

Pinky and the damned Brain up in D.C., who YOU elected to the highest office in the land. TWICE.

Will it happen? Nah. There is a world of difference between *proving a fact* or *solving a problem* on one hand, and then *convincing a so-called Human* on the other.

And you likely won't be convinced. Oh well. Hope you are happy with how you ruined New Orleans....that is the Beta Test for the future of the WHOLE NATION.

you're quite wrong in your assessment
if a person has marketable skills (Art History majors are excluded from my assessment), there are many opportunities

nobody starts as CEO unless they own the company, so start wherever, showcase your talents, and work your way up
plenty of jobs out there
i got out of college and my first job payed me 55k
so not bad
Propaganda?!?!?! Really you seem like someone who can't hold a job don't say there are not jobs out there because there are
I don't know how much I agree with you. But, on the other hand, I don't know if I agree with everyone else either. I think that it's kind of split between the two. Yes, the US job market isn't as great as it should be, but the jobs that are are there aren't that great. I know that college degrees do help to an extent, but its not something you can relay on completely.
i don't know
but i see ur point
i think kids need to know that not everyone is right for college, and that you dont necessarily have to go to college to strike i t rich