I just don’t get these jobs numbers battered about in political ads and speeches. While many parts of the country are booming, Ohio has had many jobs go away and not come back. But how do you blame a single person, ie., the President?
I have several independent contractors work with me who, several years ago were laid off from various positions, but are now working. Unfortunately, because they don’t go to an office every day and are not listed on some company’s payroll, they are not counted in the “official” employment reports. But they are productive, paying taxes, and taking care of business and family.
Did our country have to listen to all this rhetoric when farm payrolls went from 70 percent of our work force to 1 percent? Is it really that bad that we increased our productivity? Remember all that complaining when manufacturers were afraid of assembly lines and robots? Now I guess the computer has increased our productivity and removed personnel from their jobs. But aren’t millions of jobs created because of new inventions?
I think one of the problems is that the “official” job reports are compiled the same as they were 50, even 100 years ago. Jobs have changed, economies have changed, people have changed. We live in a global electronic economy. Why don’t the statisticians revise accordingly so we can read true numbers?
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