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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (317873)12/29/2006 2:23:41 PM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) of 1577122
 
Everyone has a job, all the time? There's NO unemployment?

To clarify, every non-citizen, which is about ~85% of us, has a job or has a direct relative who has a job (to sponsor a direct relative you must have a job that pays more than $1,100 per month). So the non-locals are all employed, or are wives/kids/parents of an employed person. If you don't have a job, you won't have a visa sponsor, and you can't live here.

For citizens its a much more complicated picture. Every citizen who wants can get some kind of job, but they aren't all that interested in the $300 per month jobs. They prefer government jobs since pay and benefits are much higher than in the private sector. There is a law that for large companies 2% (not a typo) of their staff must be local citizens, and I think many large companies fail to achieve that level. I have no idea what their unemployement rate is.

Somehow, given some of your other rather Pollyanna-ish statements, I don't believe this is really true.

Which statements, and what don't you believe?
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