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Need a job? Go. To. North. Dakota.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 23rd, 2012 at 01:00 PM  | 

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After reading this plaintive essay by the New York Times about young voters discovering what happens when they vote against their class interests by voting Democratic (short version: they end up on the street), my first reaction was simply to shrug.  But that’s not nice.  What is nice is offering these people actual advice, because passages like this:

Two months ago, Mr. Tano gave up an apartment in his native Dallas after losing his job. He sold his Toyota and sought opportunities in the Pacific Northwest.

…clearly indicated that they needed it (who the heck moves OUT of Texas to go get a job?).  So, because I’m a giver: here.  This is where the work is.  North Dakota, with its energy boom and its 3% unemployment rate (the two conditions are not unrelated).  They are, in fact, hungry for more workers – skilled, or not.

See?  Problem solved. Admittedly, people applying for these jobs won’t use their liberal arts degrees; but then, they’re not using them now.  Mostly because those degrees aren’t worth what the education industry promised they were worth in the first place.

(via @baseballcrank)

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Free advice, though: people looking to do this should stop smoking pot first.  And stay off of the pot.  They’ll check.

PS: More free advice: STOP VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS, YOU DAFT IDJITS.

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  • Tbone

    Everyone who didn’t vote for Republicans should suffer mentally and financially.

  • DerKrieger

    I agree 100% which is why I support going over the ‘cliff’. Yes, it will affect me personally but the Dems have to be forced to pay for the government they vote for. The GOP needs to stop protecting Dem voters from the cost of their choices.

  • checkmate2012

    Should? Anyone that voted for King O clearly suffers from mental deficiency and it will turn to insanity soon- they just don’t know it yet :)

  • Ausonius

    American voters may truly not possess the critical thinking skills, the ability to reason logically, to get past their “feel-good” conditioning inculcated by modern ed-duh-cation, which leads them like the mythical suicidal lemmings to leap into a sea of socialism.

    If I find the time (taking a break right now from Christmas preparations), I have an essay in mind for a diary about the ironies and unfortunate logic of the last election: it will not be a pretty diary, but I think it will be trenchant.

  • jeepingeoff

    Hey Moe, 2 paragraphs after the quote above appeared this gem:

    “Mr. Tano found the YouthCare shelter online, and has been staying there for a month. He has a new job as a canvasser for an environmental organization.”

    Might not be a resume enhancer in North Dakota…..lol! Sorry to laugh, but some people just seem to create their own plight……

  • clyde30475

    Good God,Moe. WHAT are you suggesting? These morons go to N.D. and SCREW IT UP like the rest of their liberal dungheaps? (sarcasm off)

  • oldmom2

    Jobs a plenty, places to live-not so much. But, that alone will drive even more jobs-construction of apts and houses.

    I’ve read where enterprising people are building bunk rooms in their barns and easily renting them out for hundreds of dollars each month.

    Isn’t it odd how young people rarely consider relocating to seek good employment?

    My folks ended up out here in the Pacific Northwest in the early 40′s because of jobs in the shipyards. They left Minnesota in the winter and drove a rattle trap car across country and found work within 3 days of arriving. Good paying jobs!

  • Tbone

    Mr. Tano should seek a career as an organ donor.

  • kahieb

    They could always join the military. Oh, wait. Their Messiah is downsizing the military. How about all of the entry level jobs around? Oh, wait. The illegal aliens have taken all of those and we couldn’t do that anyway because that would be racist. Maybe moving in down at the White House with the chosen one… Bwa-haa-haa!

  • zollistar

    I hope you write it!

  • macbookben

    It’s like having to check down there to see if your 9 year old has learned to wipe well because you’re not too sure he gets the point of doing it right.

  • macbookben

    1 good kidney = iPad 3.

  • GregInFla

    Obama (H/W) : Whole life as Professional Activist

  • kowalski

    Gotta love the comments at the New York Times trying to find some way to reconcile this with immigration. I wouldn’t applaud the feds getting on the ball about this as positive, though: it’s just because they know it’s a demographic that will continue to grow as a direct result of Obama’s immigration policies.

  • devan95

    See the movie “Idiocracy.” It will tell you all you need to know about where we are.

  • JX12

    Everyone who didn’t vote for Republicans should stay put instead of moving to other states and continuing to help elect the kind of ilk which ruined the state from which they came.

  • classicalconservatism

    I applaud Moe for the practical advice and also found the article pathetic. But, come on folks: we hid Bush 43 during this last cycle but election results show it’s time to move on. Trying to blame voting Democratic for the recession which started well before Obama took office after 8 years of a Republican (not conservative) led spending bing doesn’t fly. And do we really want to credit Obama for a job-creating energy boom that’s happened afterwards? Not to mention that suggesting that anyone *should* suffer doesn’t exactly play into the narrative that compassion and conservatism are not incompatible.

  • jaydickb

    There is much blame to share and many people who deserve to share it for the recession, including Democrats. But, the weak recovery is totally on Obama & Co.

  • classicalconservatism

    “the weak recovery is totally on Obama & Co.” well the electorate didn’t buy that narrative either. Problem A: Repubs control the House and can (and do) block at will in the Senate. Problem B: many other countries are also having weak/weaker recoveries i.e. it’s not clear that a stronger recovery was feasible (the bigger the binge the longer the hangover). Problem C: there was no crisply articulated alternative recovery plan that Repubs can now point to as having clearly been a better idea. I think the better focus now is what’s looming in front of us not the rear-view mirror.

  • imstillbreathing

    Here’s a bit of realism: North Dakota is a small state (670,000). According to Yahoo finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daniel-gross/north-dakota-spurred-energy-ag-boom-3-2-122815061.html):

    “The state’s workforce directly employed in the oil industry has risen from 4,500 in 2005 to about 35,000 today.”

    This is from July, 2011, but it gives an indication why an oil boom can drive the unemployment rate so low.

  • clyde30475

    Indeed. Merry Christmas,Moe. I do enjoy your posts.

  • zombiekiller

    In college they push liberal ideas down your throat, and if you want to get an A, you better learn to tell the profs what they want to hear. Why do they do this? Because they are all in unions. If they can manipulate their students into voting Democrat, they might get an extra five minutes on their break. So the kids get brainwashed in school, vote Democrat, and then spend the next 5 years living in the basement because they can’t find a job.

  • richardkr34

    Or, if the first term public sector jobs for Obama looked like Bush’s first term (900,000) instead of cutting 600,000 because of GOP sabotage. That’s a 1.5 million job swing, which would led to more private sector jobs…unless public sector workers can’t spend their money on businesses run by the private sector (oh, by the way, they can and do). This simplistic stuff plays to the right.

  • The_Gadfly

    Yes the spending binge is to blame for the current mess, but less directly than you indicate. The economy stayed upright until we (admittedly necessarily) punished Republicans for that spending binge by electing a Democrat Congress, as in BOTH houses. Bush 43 for all his faults DID try to head off the banking crisis by requesting that banking regulations be tightened to stem irrational lending. Unfortunately, Barney Frank told him “I want to roll the dice a little longer on this.” Even more unfortunately he wasn’t immediately removed as chairman of the Senate Banking committee for making such a crass, asinine, and Marxists statement. And most unfortunately of all, many Americans, including apparently yourself, are completely unaware of Barney Frank’s roll in our financial collapse.

  • The_Gadfly

    No, it’s not about the 5 minute break. My high school physics teacher was also the local union goon. Since I was in the bright kids’ class, he told us more during class than you’d ever catch him saying where he might be recorded (probably because being a good progressive himself, even though he lived in a conservative town he couldn’t imagine any intelligent and educated person disagreeing with his opinons). Executive summary: It’s all about the Benjamins and they don’t really give a damn about the kids. Well, they do in the sense that kids make better hostages to negotiate their demands, but certainly not in the sense of caring about what’s best for the kids.

  • arthurjake

    The problem is I doubt half of them could keep those type of jobs. Maybe hard work and actually achieving something would help the ones that do to grow a brain.