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A quick refresher course in how to create jobs : Comments

By Joe Branigan, published 28/4/2016

The summit comes at a time when Queensland’s and Australia’s unemployment rate seems stuck at around 6%, about 2% above the lows achieved during the mining boom.

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The author has overlooked a glaring anomaly in the unemployment statistics, and based an argument for non Government intervention into unemployment.
What is it?
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 28 April 2016 8:31:26 AM
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Anyone who has done Economics 101 will already know what Joe Branigan says. Anyone who has paid even the most cursory attention to the news will know that whenever employment figures show a rise politicians will claim to have 'created jobs'. They never of course claim credit for the converse, which immediately proves the nonsense of their ‘created jobs’ mantra. But in the end this is a simple argument between right and left, with both sides sincerely (I hope) believing in the truth of their arguments. In a rational world, governments would do the obvious and totally deregulate the labour market. But in our kind of polarised society we just have to rely on luck to drive economic growth – weather, global prices, wars, how the big global economies are travelling, etc. So let’s all cross our fingers, together.
Posted by Tombee, Thursday, 28 April 2016 8:51:17 AM
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Tombee.

I get a bit over this vacious argument that the economy will be saved, and all will live happily ever after, by simply deregulating the labour market.

And when, just supposing we do, Australia is chockas with Chinese Coolies working for two bob and a dog biscuit, and we obligingly make short legged, slanty eyed Aussies out of them, what then?
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 28 April 2016 9:01:47 AM
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Creating jobs is best done by the private sector,which ought to include cooperatives?

They're assisted in that endeavor by genuine tax reform, simplification, harmonized laws and less red tape! Unfair dismissals need to be junked and doable in return for a more realistic job start allowance?

Which could just max out in say six months, with compulsory military service the only remaining option after that time? Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 28 April 2016 9:42:49 AM
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Why do we keep hearing this mantra of "we need to keep improving our standard of living". Our standard of living is already higher than we can afford and that is what is driving both the individual and state debt. Today's population isn't happier than the previous generation, in fact the converse applies. Credit is too easy to get, we are getting lazy, we want instant gratification. We already spend too much of our resources on grog, cigarettes, pokies and other forms of gambling. When are we going to wake up and stop blaming the governments for all our ills.

There isn't a shortage of jobs out there. Too many people are working longer hours to pay for their excesses, when those hours could be taken up by those who really need them.

David
Posted by VK3AUU, Thursday, 28 April 2016 10:02:53 AM
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We are living beyond our means. Our standard of living can be maintained only through credit. People on the dole can have luxury items that middle class people had to save for not long ago. There is now talk of the interest rate being further reduced: more cheap credit for the wastrels, and less income for people living within their means, on their own recources. How does that make sense? People are unemployed because they have priced themselves out of the market,and governments have assisted them by seeing to it they they can still have the toys they desire from low-wage countries, paid for with increasing credit and welfare. Welfare recipients in Australia get as much money as people in China and Bangladesh get for working long hours in sweatshops to provide our bludgers with their desires. Decent migrants, with the skills and the will to contribute to Australia's wealth no longer want to come here. Instead, we now have 'refugees', 80% of whom never get a job, but live better than they ever have on our welfare and handouts. The placed is stuffed.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 28 April 2016 10:57:31 AM
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