In this post I decided to change things up a bit. I recently found a video that takes a lighter more humorous approach to this dramatic issue. The man in the video is named Josh Lipton is a Staff Writer at Minyanville, where he covers Business & Markets. Josh joins Minyanville from Forbes.com, where he was a Staff Writer reporting on stock market activity and trends. Although he takes more of a Stephen Colbert/ Jon Stewart role in addressing this issue, he does make some interesting points (even if I don't necessarily agree with them). I am aware of the fact that he is very intelligent and knowledge when it comes to the economy, so he seemed like a very credible source. In the video he will talk about how the market is failing and how he thinks it can be fixed. He recommends making the census every year because that was how the government was able to show an increase in employment in recent months. It simply hired more census workers. He jokes about adopting the census' practice of firing and then rehiring workers just to say that new jobs have been created. He claims: "it’s a numbers game." Obviously this could never work because the jobs these numbers are saying have been created are in fact a lie. Unemployment is still the same, as they just fired and then rehired the same worker. However, I do agree that the census creates jobs, so maybe instead of having it every 10 years, make it 5. More jobs would be created more often, but the only downside is that it will increase the deficit even more as money must be spent to pay wages. However, helping unemployment should be our nation's greatest priority now. I hope this crisis will be solved soon.
I really enjoyed your post this week! I love the fact that he basically talked about a "fake job market" the whole time. I do agree that having a census every year could help create a lot of jobs but I think that anybody in their right mind would enjoy having a job that is just going to end in a few months once everyone in the U.S. is accounted for. But besides that, I liked that fact that you gave this week's post a funny twist! Good Job!
ReplyDeleteYES!!! I am so glad somebody watched this! Even though this post in completely outrageous and makes humorous suggestions, it does provoke some intelligent thoughts in the reader. It also makes viewers aware of the fraudulent activities the government is engaging in just to alter the true appearance of unemployment figures. He talks about how the census would hire workers, the fire them weeks later, just so they could be rehired. This strategy creates a false impression the employments rates are going up, as data will show more people are getting hired, when in actuality it is just the same people being hired over and over again. Pretty genius huh? I had no idea this practice was going on, and it also makes you question the credibility of the Census itself. I truly hope you enjoyed this clip because I thought it took a very comical approach to addressing the unemployment crisis and the dishonest practice of government officials. While the clip is intended to be funny it does raise some concepts for reflection such as: will extending the census to every 5 years or every year actually boost employment? What other dishonest practices is the government caught up in? I hope you found this clip thought provoking, but also funny.
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