What you would rather have low wages and no benefits? F8ck off.

What I see in the story is not that 500 apps. have been sent out. But look at the pictures and see the 1000's that need jobs....So why are we being told things are getting better? And if so where so we can apply there too.

If you want a manufacturing job don't vote for Redumbicans as they will send them to mexico.

Remember Mit Rawmoney worked for Bain=Pain Capitalism.

Yes, what a joke! A hand full of jobs and the media makes it look and sound like things are getting better. What is the matter with the reporters??? Numb in the heads?

Nothing more than a "horse and pony show". Those job are already bought and payed for.

@ HobokenOP.

You can say what you want about unions but the fact is that unions built the middle class in this county. The helped to make the workplace safer and more fair. You complain about them but since most of us aren't from a time that we didn't reap the benefits gained for us by organized labor it's easy to do. If you had to work in coal mine when you where 8, with nobody caring if you died while you made you 10 cents an hour instead of going to school, you'd probably be singing a different tune. I think you need to go back and read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair as you seem to have avoided it while you were in school. When you attack unions you might as well be saying you want yourself and others to be serfs/peasants or you want others to be serfs/peasants for you and other "makers of money". Seems hard to be ultra-wealthy without ripping other people off.

I agree with you in the sense that any good system can be corrupted by those who seek to use it for their own personal gain or interests. Any system.

Look at how much the government screws up whatever they touch. Our public high shools are failing at training people to run a lathe or do woodworking. Leave the job of job creation to the public sector.

Very much so a tragic commentary on the job sector and the american economy. We are in a depression people, and soon we will be in a hyperinflationary one.

alan_static: They don't teach that anymore because partly because lathe and woodworking labor is cheaper overseas and because there has been ultra emphasis on reading, writing and math and other college oriented skills, to the detriment of labor skills.

This is what happens when you have training dictated by statistics and a job market that's mostly exported overseas.

Also blame it on corporation greed. They are already at historically low corporate tax rate in decades and hitting record profits. There are no way in hell for average Americans to compete with China with 200-400 a month slave wages.

Hate to say it but there is a sliver lining in the increase of gas. It's becoming more expensive to ship the products that China produce back to the USA and jobs are very slowly coming back. Gas hits 5 per gallon and you will see the jobs flooding back.

Lol, your statement is funny. It's called living within your means. I seen way too many people buying too much car and too much house. Driving around expensive cars with payments that comprised of 50% of their monthy income. Living paycheck to paycheck and drowing themselves in creditcards so bad they they have no wiggle room for unexpected expenses. And if small increases in gas prices break their budget then something is wrong. If the gas prices jumped 1 dollar per gallon, I would see extra 16 bucks per week in gas. I see people spend more than that at Starbucks in a few days. Maybe get a passenger car with better mpg not a gas guzzler like a suv.

I guess you completely forgot about banks that saturated the market with subprime mortgages that brought down the us economy while wallstreet decimated everyone's retirement and still continue to collect their usual bonuses. And the government? Try tax cuts and 2 unpaid wars.

I live in a red state in Houston Texas, and we cannot find people to work all of the manufacturing jobs down here. They pay well, but many are non-union jobs. Most of these jobs support the oil industry, which of course are supported by the Republicans. It may be bleak up there, but things are rosy in Houston. It sure beats standing in line for days.........

i admire those men who literally slept on the streets to hold their places in line so that they may have a chance to provide for their families and of course, i am saddened by the idea that they had to do it here in america. i think that america has become a country of great inequality and that upward mobility made possible by hard work and dedication is becoming a prospect of the past. the establishment has the upper hand. CEO/corporate pay - rediculous while rest of the worker bees work, work, work to try to get ahead but, somehow cant manage to pay for a house, car, college, and save for retirement.

George Carlin tells it best in The American Dream (rated R):

Just looking for an excuse to bash public ed? These men are looking for an apprenticeship, not a semester of shop class. This is more on the lines of an internship AFTER a year or 2 at a vocational school. Plus - shocking as it might be to you, ALL state grants and funding are good for ANY secondary education as long as it's accredited including vocational schools. You can stop regurgitating Santorum's snob remark and open a book and do some research.

I've done enough research when I went to HS. Their apprenticeship program consisted of learning to change the oil on our cars and drafting. Good luck actually learning some real world blue collar skills in my HS, because even the most liberal minded people where I lived didn't think it was worthwhile.

Let's see how important Lewis and Clark are to the children of these adults that don't have jobs. Teach these people skills, not useless trivia.

Our schools are failing us. Trickle down economics didn't work. The 1% better pay attention since they aren't paying anything else.

At least these people are sticking with it until the end and NOT sitting home. I hope there is a job for all of them.

These men are looking for an apprenticeship, not a semester of shop class.

High schools that do it RIGHT (and there are some) have basic shop classes that, should the students choose, turn into apprenticeship tracks. But oops, there's that dirty word "track" .. tsk, tsk. Can't have kids thinking there might be other ways to earn a living WITHOUT a college degree. And, unfortunately, those schools are VERY few and far between.

Note: that's NOT to say job training isn't needed, it most certainly is, but not necessarily four years of college.

LOL 43 years not 430....

It's not importing when they are locating their manufacturing plants in China and India. It's called exporting jobs. And there is no way that Americans can compete with China and India when they require a fraction of the cost. Can you live on 200-400 a month salary while working 12 hrs a day?

Because they have systems that train directly to skilled labor. Germany does the same thing.

Hard to change a broken system in 3 years, especially with an obstructionist opposition for the past 18 months.

Working great for me, 401k way up. Auto industry is saved. Got a Raise and a new sweet Job. Am I better off now then when President Obama took office. YES!!!

Obama/Biden 2012!!!

Pissed off person:

I have bought American cars in the past. Now I just stick with the germans and the swedes.

If you gave me an American car I would sell it as fast as possible. I don't keep JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doc

Then please explain what happened in the first 24 months of Democrat Control.

I love my Ford!! Best cars and trucks I have ever owned!!

Then join a Union stop crying and stop voting for Aholes that will send our manufacturing jobs to Mexico.

China is kicking our ass because our corporations gave these countries our technology and high tech factories on a silver platter just so corporations can exploit cheap labor. Whats the point of innovating new ideas when we keep building those new products in China? Look at automotive industry. They already creating new chinese brands using our technology after learning from us.

You have a link to back up that claim?

And besides...... if you have a job at McDonalds, would you stay in line for a job that pays more?

Union jobs are what have kept people living in certain less-than-preferred cities, like Detroit--otherwise, you can bet that those who see no hope in their current locations would've left long ago and situations in certain parts of America would be that much worse. Instead, they cling to the hope that they'll be one of the lucky ones and so they continue to populate parts of the U.S., waiting their turn.

That golden ticket for a union job, for fair wages, for a chance to actually support a family (as opposed to trying to scrape by on a minimum-wage, fast-food restaurant pay with no insurance) is what keeps people "home." Healthy people with healthy kids are having a tough time... imagine if you have a special-needs child and an elderly parent living with you, and the financial strain that causes. You think working two or three "regular" jobs is going to help you get by--never mind succeed--with your life?

Nuts...matuco

Tiber....now you know one,,,

Now you know two.