President/Leaders of Countries

Part of the Solution to Unemployment

Simple.

Raise the age you can apply for government jobs.

Currently for almost every government job in the US – including Coast Guard, Air Force, etc – it is 37.

I think it’s time we update that a bit to reflect our population living longer lives and our willingness to work longer years (many work past 65 these days).

There were 36,000 more job losses in February in the USA. The numbers are still very high. It’s going to be a while until we see them drop down to single digit thousands, let alone only hundreds.

If Obama issued an Executive Order effective in April 2010 that all US Government Jobs age max entry date was upped to 45, there would be floods of individuals that would be able to gain instant employment!

Both for non-clearance related jobs, and for those that still hold clearances from a few years ago (clearance is valid for 5 years). And then others with more skills and experience for future employment (due to the background checks necessary for clearances – of which they are already backlogged by millions).

37-45.

Think about how many people that taps into – just those 8 years!

I don’t even need statistics to know. Common sense tells me. This will tremendously help sooo many people have the opportunity to get a job and even start a career path they never thought they would be engaged in – but enjoy quite a bit.

He should give it a try and see what happens by the end of his first term – or if he gets fortunate, the end of his 2nd.  I bet those numbers would drop quite a bit each month – perhaps even down to hundreds by the end of the next decade.

I know many around my age (I am 40) – that wanted to do several different jobs for the US Gov’t, but because they were older than 37, they couldn’t apply.  BTW: the government has lots of jobs to apply for.

Hmmm – isn’t that age discrimination?

Businesses aren’t allowed to discriminate by age – so how come the government is?

The US Government is missing out on a lot of exceptional people and talent. Most of us reach some of our best intellectual and hard working years after the age of 35.

This is when we have gained a lot of experience, and have gone through other jobs and careers and are much more settled and finalized on what we really want to be engaged in for the rest of our working years. The majority of us have also surpassed the ’starting a family stage’ so there are less chances of family distractions or juggling of schedules.

Even if entry is at 45 yrs of age – they could still give you 20 years and retire at their ‘desired 65′ if they so choose, and get the benefit of pension. These days, I am sure they would stay 25 years and retire at 70 and set out to do some good charity work or something to give back to their world.

It baffles me how the government has gotten away with this age discrimination for so long – and no one has raised an issue – especially now -when unemployment is so high.

I am more surprised someone in the Adminstration hasn’t figured out this simple solution and it took me – someone with no experience in this unemployment field – to figure it out.

I am not boasting – just wondering where the intelligence is when they say the Adminstration is doing ‘every thing in it’s power to create jobs for the American people’.

How much money did we give in bailout money? How many jobs did that actually create? How many jobs did that save? How many jobs did that re-employ for those that lost their jobs before Obama took office and to current? Where are those numbers?

The only thing I know of that bailout money is that it kicked me in the butt as a taxpayer, and on situations I could care less about, it kept industries in tact that should have collapsed as part of their lesson learned -because they knew all along what they were doing, and it kept executives getting top dollar salaries and bonuses.

If the government handed out the same billions it allocated to the bailout to all the people that lost their jobs and are continuing to do so daily, everyone would be fine for another year or so until the economy could pick up, because the bailout hasn’t helped or sped up the economy recovery at all. It only helped some greedy connected people.

Obama cancels his Indonesia/Australia trip for healthcare. What does he cancel to make sure that people can have food on their table tomorrow?

He is taking the time to travel to those places because their economy is strong – and he wants to establish stronger relations on how we can work with them better. But that won’t be for a while.

Instead, he should be staying home and fixing the problem that is here in America, that needs fixing for today and the next day and the day after that.

I just proved – it doesn’t even require a lot of thought or hard effort to fix. If I thought of this one simple thing – I am sure his savvy team with years of experience and knowledge combined can fix this quicker.

If Obama would spend as much time on unemployment as he does on healthcare, our numbers would have been down quite a bit already, and they would keep dropping. No one can afford healthcare at all – rates lower or higher – if they have no money coming in – think about it Obama!

You need to fix things in order. Fix the unemployment and you solve many many problems.