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Where young people can't find work

Here are the top 10 countries where residents aged 16 to 25 are burdened by high rates of unemployment.

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Sep 4, 2012 11:26AM
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THIS IS A DISGRACE THAT IN SUCH AN ERA THAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE CANNOT FIND WORK THE SENIORS ARE STARVING AND YET THERE SEEMS TO BE NO RESOLUTION TO THIS NIGHTMARE.  I THOUGHT OUR PRESIDENT WAS GOING TO HELP BUT I AM VERY DOUGHTFUL IF HE CAN DO IT.  PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING ARE DOING THE WORK OF TWO SINCE EMPLOYERS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION AND PEOPLE ARE SCARED OF LOOSING THEIR JOBS SO THEY WORK DOUBLE WHILE EMPLOYERS GET RICHER.
Sep 4, 2012 11:25AM
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Gas price pains, hunger pains, debt collectors, medical problems, when will the process slow down so that partially unemployed can catch-up. I know the man told Bruce to get a job. It is easy when companies like you.

 

Sep 4, 2012 11:16AM
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    The first jobs that we have are not always the hign paying type. I remember my first full-time job. It was on a dairy farm. A friend and I started out  @ $2.00 a day . That was for 10 hours of work. We also recieved a good dinner at lunch time. For 20 cents an hour we put out a fair amount of work. We were proud of the job we did. We worked all through the summer. During the Christmas vacation the same farmer gave us $5.00 a day for the same work. That was a 250%  pay raise. This was in the early 60's During my adult life I never was out of work long and have never had trouble finding a job. We were 15 years old when we started that job.
Sep 4, 2012 11:14AM
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Ha, ha you all voted for barry and now you don't have a job. And your over indulgent parents and the teachers that bs you for the last 15 years to keep their phat jobs. With all you are such a special person, your finding out you really aren't'. Boy did you all get bambozzed! But cheer up once barry get another 4 years, guess what you wlll all have a job, remember the civilian army he wanted back in 2008. The one that will be bigger than our current military, the one you will have to serve in. Get ready to fall out on the hard surface and start marching. Boy I am sure loving what is going to happen in 2013 and beyond.
Sep 4, 2012 11:09AM
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The under 25 crowd recklessly voted themselves into poverty, despair, and hopelessness back in Nov 2008.  Obama promised them change they can believe in, he didn't say that change would be for the better. Suckers.... 
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Those jobs were sold/handed out to illegals to get sympathetic hispanic votes, as in "SCREW AMERICAN CITIZENS, I NEED VOTES NOW"!
Sep 4, 2012 11:05AM
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Quit trashing President Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. He has an impressive list of accomplishments:

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

First President to violate the War Powers Act. .

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.

First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).

First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.

First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 102 to date.

First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to go on multiple global “apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.

First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer.

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

First President to repeat the Holy Quran & tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences”.
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs. Arizona).

How is this hope and change working out for you? THERE'S AN ELECTION COMING UP...I HOPE YOU REMEMBER THIS LIST WHEN YOU VOTE!

Sep 4, 2012 10:52AM
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Romney has stated that he wants to put you to work. Prove you want to work on November 6, 2012.  
Sep 4, 2012 10:50AM
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But according to the Democrats we are so much better off than we were four years ago.
Sep 4, 2012 10:47AM
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You guys voted for him and you got your jobs HOPElessness and  economic CHANGE
Sep 4, 2012 10:45AM
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Government jobs will not solve the unemployment problem....not in the USA nor anywhere else in the world.  The Private sector has to do it.  Get the government out of your lives, cut taxes on small companies, do away with this overblown retirement system for government workers...let them fund their own retirement.  Get rid of all the government red tape for conducting business, cut taxes on business.

Get rid of all the un-necessary overburdening welfare programs. 

 

Governments all over the world have gotten too big, they waste taxpayers money.  Let the taxpayers keep their money and let them spend it as they see fit. 

Sep 4, 2012 10:40AM
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We can thank Obama for the situation here in America. And for sending billions of our hard earned tax dollars everywhere but to the Americans who need it. Vote for change in Nov.

We need it bad!

Sep 4, 2012 10:40AM
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When I graduated from college in 1979, it took me months to land my first 'real' full-time professional job. It is always a very difficult time  for a young person to pry open the doors and for them to find their directions in life. Don't under-estimate young people here or abroad. Many of them are more than willing to tend bar, wait on table, wash dishes, drive taxi cabs, work on assembly lines and work at the loading docks. Jobs are tough to come by, and there's are many people competing for the few that are out there. We're of a very resilent stock here! We'll weather this crisis irregardless of who is control of the White House.

Sep 4, 2012 10:36AM
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All planned out. In early 1970’s both political parties endorsed and released “Workforce 2000” plans starting with the Fortune 500 companies. Workforce 2000 and NAFTA is Americas contribution to the new global economy. Jack Welch, then CEO of GE designed the model and the rest of the big leaguers followed in his foot steps. He started sending “Low Tech” devices like toasters and coffee makers over to get the farmers out of their fields. Look where they are today. I remember it well working for a large aerospace company in So. Cal.
We attended a four hour presentation on how America was going to change. We were to become a service oriented country. How labor intensive work was going to be out sourced. How Chinas average pay scale was a whopping .35 cents per day. The man hours it took us to build one large airplane would be an equivalent cost to the most expensive BMW motorcar. Were all our stock holder excited. The Demographics of America were also explained. Guess what? The Hispanic communities was going to be the major population in the LA basin area. That’s right. See where we are today. All part of the plan and don’t forget, all endorsed by both political parties. Then the whipshooding began. Jack Welch implemented a theme called, “Keeping the Ideas Coming”. Ref. March Fortune 500 article. With the threat, or inevitable loss of our jobs, he started a manipulation cooptation strategy to pick the employees brains and make them think they could compete and save their jobs/asses. The CEO’s, corporate leaders and politicians are raking in all the benefits.
So when I hear and read about this new economy BS, remember our government has it all under control. The part I have trouble with is if people are not working and or making half of what they use to make, income tax revenue will drop as well. How dose a tax system expect to sustain and pay for basic services, afford a healthcare program and frequent handouts to the world in trouble?
In 1992 United Auto Workers union, (UAW) predicted that only 4% of the American workers will be represented by a union. Police, fire services and a few more government jobs will be represented to show the world America is still labor friendly.
As Americans Change so to speak and our earning power diminishes Americans will eventually take what they can get. Just like other third world counties did. Its Americas turn to become the stepchild.
And now Obama has brought in Jeffrey Immelt CEO from GE. Immelt cut his teeth under Jack Welch and Harry Stonesypher. GE was the model corporation which has led to American’s loosing their jobs. And now a Muslim in charge of Homeland Security. Amazing how everything predicted is coming to pass.
Wal-Mart has become the new commissary to America.
Our future holds, “Beans, Blankets and Bullets.
Sep 4, 2012 10:34AM
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You can thank "Free Trade" for not having a job. So called "Free Trade" was dreamed up by big business and the elite to bring down labor costs in the U.S.  Its hard to compete with  75 cent an hour labor.  Romney/Ryan want to outsource even more jobs. The grinning Chineese worker says " Send us more of your jobs, stupid Americans, we will bury you."
Sep 4, 2012 10:10AM
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YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE IT NO DIFFERENT THAN THE REST OF US:
The 16 to 25  year old age group normally has an unemployment a rate of 10 to 12.5 percent. At it's peak it was about 19 percent. That's a 72 percent increase. Compare this to the rest of us: normally being 3 to 6 percent unemployed and at the peak 7 to 10.5 percent gives a 95 percent increase. My numbers may be a tiny bit screwy cause I am just eyeballing the chart linked below, so the difference could be greater or smaller than I am saying. The point is, young people have it no different than the rest of us. Their unemployment rate to start with is simply twice what older people's unemployment rate is. It may even be significantly better with young people at a 72 percent increase vs. a 94 percent increase. The Bureau of Labor Statistics tells all: http://www.economagic.com/blslf.htm
Sep 4, 2012 10:08AM
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If you vote for Lyin Ryan and Dumbney Romney you still want be better off!! There are plenty of job but most young people want to be CEO not mail room clerk. I was taught you take want you can while thriving for the job you really want.
Sep 4, 2012 9:56AM
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Repubs would have you all believe that anyone who can't "find" work , are lazy , and not really trying to find work . They just want to leach from the government and have everything that the wonderful life of welfare and soup kitchens have to offer them and thier kids . Which classifies them as scum worthy of abandonment and ridicule .
Sep 4, 2012 9:56AM
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ready and willing to work, well maybe some but too many have their head positioned up their butts. living on their cell phone and computer  while expectiong to be paid well for working no so hard and not focusing on their job. the good ones are few and far between.  we need to really look who is running the country into the ground as it is them who make jobs scarce and companies unwilling to spend money and expand/hire  it is really a time for a new person in office
Sep 4, 2012 9:51AM
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are we better off now then 4 years ago i say no obama says yes lets get rid of him
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