Thom Hartmann: Teens competing with masters-degrees for burger flipping jobs?

David Selig, conservative commentator, joins Thom. If you thought the recent job numbers were bad - with an unemployment rate ticking up to 9.1% - take a look at the unemployment rate for teenagers. Based on last month's job numbers nearly a quarter of all 16 to 19-year-olds looking for a job - or just a summer job - are unemployed. In California - that number is as high as 34%! It's no wonder though - considering that people with Masters degrees can't even find a job at McDonalds where a recent job fair collected over 1 million applications for about 60,000 job openings - and nationwide, corporations only hired 54,000 Americans in May. You know your economy is screwed when 16-year-olds are competing with masters-degree-holding engineers for burger flipping jobs

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[Ristar85]

lol...

want a job?

join the imperialist USA armed forces, one of the mercenary companies, or defence contractors.

there's always enough money in the USA government to fund wars, undermine non-friendly governments, install dictatorships, manipulate puppets, etc.

[enlightened58]

He's incorrect taxes at the federal level pay for nothing. The Federal Reserve receives the money's in payment for loaning the government it's money supply rather than the gov printing their own. As a nation the US will soon be no longer reconizeable as it's past self as far as inventiveness and work ethic. It took 50 years for the gov and corporations to greedly take all and leave the working class and the country in dire straits. It will take at least as long to recover.

[tyonker]

just to show the quality of the overpriced education system

[liberty2011able]

@simontimon2 You're so lucky. Trade school is the way to go, but it's rarely being pushed by our media. You spend a fraction of your time at a trade school than you do at a regular college. You won't waste half of your twenties there like you would in college either.

[liberty2011able]

@Ristar85 That's just the way they're making it out here. It's getting to the point that you won't be able to find a job unless you work for the government.

[simontimon2]

I have a 6 month tecnical college mining degree, got 3 job offers in a week and now working at 270$ a day and i'm only 18.

HA HA HA fuck you to all those University douchebags art majors.

[MafiaNewYorker0010]

We have more cause for revolution today than we did to rebel against tyrants back in the 20th century. We have nothing to lose, with great violence & bloodshed a greater tomorrow will come. Over throw the government now.

[cheechanchux]

Who cares about teens, I need money nigga!!!!

[morg405]

we need to raise the debt ceiling 3.5-4.0 trillion and spend half that building superstores (walmart, dicks sporting goods, guitar center, and freds) and another 20% on mom and pap stores and fast food chains.

because that would produce millions of jobs at $8.00 and the unemployment rate would plummet to nearly nothing compared to todays and they could do that in five years.

[marielacandie]

i agree with what the host says because education is expensive

[TheWarriorchamp]

THOM HARTMANN NO WONDER HATES AMERICA IS ON RT NEWS

[TheWarriorchamp]

NO WONDER HATES AMERICA IS ON RT NEWS