You so underestimate the power of the federal government. Our business, a small fish, in the big pond has to do reporting. All of our expenses are on those ledgers. While it may not say how many people we use though our third party contractor to do ad creation we are deducting that cost from our revenue. In addition, those that we have as actual employees in India or the Philippines show up again, on the expense side of the ledger.
I can understand the defeatist attitude that we can't do anything, so let's just write off the American job market. Everyone needs a living wage, regardless of employment status, etc. But there is one man who wants to try and do something about it in this election. And you all think he's an idiot. Construction is a one time deal for this project, then that project, etc. There are a lot of one time deals that can be done. Ever see how many people a major construction site employs and for how long? us. The groundbreaking for Apple's new campus was November 2013, it is supposed to open Q4 2016. You might look at a three year project as temporary construction jobs but those are good paying jobs that we have laborers to perform. Or we could just lay down and whine there are no jobs. Other countries are glad to build those automated manufacturing plants.
BMW's South Carolina plant has an
army of robots. Yet, it employs 8000 - 10000 workers at
BMW Spartanburg. Just because some manufacturing is automated does not mean there are no people working there.