Unemployment Woes

Parts of northern France, the traditional industrial sectors, are ruined by labor problems. The coal mines last shut down in 1974, and the textile industry occupies a quiet location to move to greener pastures, for that read, cheap labor. People living in these areas have asked for answers from their political candidates for the French presidency. According to women interviewed in Poix-du-Nord, who have jobs in a CMT factory until its closure in October 2007, when they asked their real candidate of what he had to say about their upcoming jobs, everyone has got the answer was 'Good luck'.

The question that asks to be resolved, however, is whether it is government's responsibility to ensure its citizens to have a job? In my opinion it is a yes and no situation. Yes, because education, which is determined by the government, on offer to young citizens of a country will determine whether they will be able to carve a life for themselves. How much of the program in schools in the United Kingdom and Europe, for example, deals with self-employment, entrepreneurship, financial management capacity, economics, marketing, public relations, management, etc. In other words, schools cover the skills required by people to start their own business, or education deployed, encourage drones. Drones would mean working for an organization would be more suitable than trying to make a living with their own business.

If education, which has become a government department, produces the young people whose main goal is to find a job because the alternatives are not even considered, then the government definitely needs to provide its citizens with the occupation? So Madame Royal, the answer would not just Good Luck. Of course there are some exceptions to this rule, for example in the field of information technology, where young people are so innovative that are ahead of the formal sector, an example is YouTube.

Government Big Brother is already interfering in almost everything else. It would therefore be reluctant to be dictated as well as where you work and what jobs. What would surely be the result if the government were to take responsibility for providing jobs. It's not really an option.

Problems of unemployment are not going away. If you move the textile industry in Thailand for example, or China because of cheap labor, in ten years, the textile and car manufacturing industries as another example, might be moving to Venezuela or wherever. It will move to whatever country offers the best incentives to reduce costs and increase profits. Profit is the bottom line. This trend has been on the cards for many years. Natural resources are subject to the same type of instability. In the north of France in the coal mines closed in 1974. On the other hand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, the city known for its mountains of landfill yellow gold mines, soon will find itself without its points of reference of mine dump. The gold price is pretty high right now for these mountains to be re-mined!

I would suggest you fire the staff, who are in touch with modern society, in education departments of the government! OK, maybe not that drastic a step. Perhaps Richard Branson would have the task of revamping the education department in the United Kingdom? He would certainly be a person who would understand what is needed in modern society. He must be able to identify the set of skills and knowledge that young people would need to make their own way as successful entrepreneurs. This is what is needed to combat unemployment. It requires a total change of mind and a new set of skills to be taught....