How fantastical thinking has led Americans into a self delusion that threatens our nation’s economy and soul.

Employers are whining that they have jobs but no one is applying. the problem is the pay rate.

No Politician Left Behind: Letter to the Maverick—Arizona Now Outlaws Hats

Further discussion of jobs reports versus reality of the Un and Underemployed.

Rather than argue about workers’ lack of skills versus offshoring work to countries with lower skill sets, wouldn’t it be simpler to expect employers to do something that they used to do? Like train workers?

Whirlpool’s $19.3 Million Stimulus Leaves Blind Workers and 1,055 Others in U.S. Jobless

Discussion of the latest Jobs Report and the NY Times on “why” so many folks are long term un/ender-employed

The numbers are outrageous, sickening even. How can anyone stand to look at them?

Since 2000, the U.S. has lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs, with 2.1 million of those jobs being lost in the last two years alone. Since 2001, over 42,400 factories have closed in the U.S., and another 90,000 are considered at severe risk of closing. The last time so few were employed in manufacturing was in 1941, before World War II spending pulled that sector out of its Great Depression slump.

Numbers like these make me want to cry.

So President Obama has come up with a big and bold solution to deal with problem. He’s going to shut down the federal office that counts how many jobs are being shipped overseas.

Do you remember the “Made in the USA” commercials from the 1980′s? They were a dismal failure.

College used to mean a good paying job and a future. Now it means a mess, indebtedness, no job and competing with people with NO education for jobs at the bottom of the barrel while employers move educated jobs overseas. Is there an answer?