On Newsnight on Tuesday we saw David Miliband and Chris Grayling the Employment minister putting over their points of view about the youth of today 16-24 year old's who haven't got jobs Its now reached 1,016,000, and all they could do was criticise government policy or the last governments lack of action. We have Future Job Funds an Apprentice Forum talking about getting youths into work, or how to fill out a CV, this isn't getting them jobs. Then we have the old adage that if you have no experience then you can't get a job and if you can't get a job you can't get experience. The point is that 90% of ministers in government or in opposition have never had jobs at the lower level. Jeremy Paxman spoke to youths who said that they had come out of college or university with degrees but couldn't find employment. The one thing he never asked them was what their degrees were in? Only one girl said that she wanted to go on a song writing course but it was cancelled at the last minute. If the girl had any talent for song writing she wouldn't need to go on a course her talent would get her through. Had she never heard of Lennon and McCartney, or Paul Simon, and Art Garfunkel, Neil Diamond. The problem is that jobs are getting scarcer especially in manufacturing because third world countries have now taking over. And people like Dyson who is always telling the government what to do, took the manufacturing of his products abroad because he could get them made cheaper. Greed on his part, if these jobs had stopped in this country it would have meant at least 3000 jobs. Even the aerospace industry is cutting back on highly skilled engineers and even if BAE Systems gets the order for Typhoon aircraft from India much of them will be built their. As each year passes and as more people leave school the unemployment figures will only increase because we are not creating enough jobs to fill this growing trend. And if the predicted growth in births is correct and in the next 16 years the population will reach 70 million what will be the number of unemployed then be?
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