For Craftsmen, Craigslist Is A Slender Lifeline

nytimes.com:

With few places to turn, construction workers have colonized Craigslist as the cyberspace equivalent of the street corner or the Home Depot parking lot.

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Comments

[pepper1311]

01:31 PM on 05/07/2012

who would use craigs list for a skilled worker? not i...

[djuno1966]

09:00 PM on 05/06/2012

I use two signs "Betcha a dollar you read this sign"
" Angry vet will work for ammo"

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[Conspiracy2Riot]

07:00 PM on 05/06/2012

I love Craigslist. It's where I buy or score for free nearly everything I'd ever need. And hiring someone from there means the worker can decide for him/herself if they want to claim that income with the IRS.

Craigslist: spiriting tax dollars and profits out of government and from corporations, since inception.

[becky bradshaw]

03:26 PM on 05/06/2012

Our current economic troubles were not an accident. When China was given full access to the international market, and more importantly, when the banks invested the lion's share of resources in Asia, the effect on the middle class worker was predictable. Since 2001, more than 50,000 manufacturing jobs per month have been lost. (1)

Another important factor was the illegal alien. It is falsely assumed that the illegal alien worker only takes the bottom of rung jobs. The cheap labor was like a flood. (2)

It takes about 90 seconds for average Americans to understand solutions to these problems. Because these solutions are avoided tells us everything we need to know about our leadership.

On the bright side, the number of mega-yachts has increased by more than 400% in just the last fifteen years. (3)

References:
1. http://www.infowars.com/how-to-find-a-job-just-be-willing-to-flip-burgers-and-work-for-minimum-wage/
2. http://importing-poverty.blogspot.com/
3. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25804188/ns/travel-luxury_travel/t/where-big-boys-go-berth/

[getoffmedz]

10:51 AM on 05/06/2012

For craftsmen and t#0!!$.