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Passage of time is now making clear exactly how ill-equipped the incumbent was to take on the position of POTUS. And worse, instead of growing into the job, he’s done the reverse.

 

Today’s example of wrongheadedness comes from conclusions drawn in a new report from the National Employment Law Project, a research and advocacy group, analyzing employment trends four years into the recovery.

 

The report’s author, Michael Evangelist, writes that “The deep recession wiped out primarily high-wage and middle-wage jobs. Yet the strongest employment growth during the sluggish recovery has been in low-wage work, at places like strip malls and fast-food restaurants. In essence, the poor economy has replaced good jobs with bad ones.”

 

Mr. Evangelist goes on, “Fast food is driving the bulk of the job growth at the low end — the job gains there are absolutely phenomenal,’ … But job losses and gains have been skewed. Higher-wage industries — like accounting and legal work — shed 3.6 million positions during the recession and have added only 2.6 million positions during the recovery. But lower-wage industries lost two million jobs, then added 3.8 million.”

 

And the saddest aspect of the trend away from skilled position opportunity is that it reflects the condition of the entire U.S. economy, which, according to  www.heritage.org, now ranks twelfth in the world behind, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Chile, Mauritius, Ireland, Denmark, and even Estonia.

 

So, while we watch the incumbent take fabulously expensive trips with his entourages, burger flippers and strip mall clerks have nowhere to turn to improve their lot. However, the administration doesn’t really have to worry about dreadful statistics in the news, because as education quality also sinks under this regime, fewer and fewer folks actually know how to read.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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