Comments by "Scott Tovey" (@scotttovey) on "CNBC" channel.

  1. "I personally think a lot of the problem for people is employers unwilling to train. They expect you to already know everything about the job. Especially for “Entry level” positions that require years of experience" Employers unwilling to train employees was going on back in 2004-2007 as well. The only way to insure that an employee is qualified for a given job is for the employer to train that employee. No educational institution can actually train students to such a degree, that they know every aspect of every job that exists in the real world. Back in 2004-2007, employers habitually whined and nagged the government for more visa immigrants because there were no qualified Americans to do the job. When they did hire an immigrant, they typically had an American employee train that immigrant, and then, terminated the American employee after the immigrant was able to do the job. Basically, it comes down to American employers unlawfully discriminating against Americans. I'm 62, will be 63 this May. I have seen the misuse of "Entry level" my whole adult life. Requiring an applicant to have 5 years experience, is not an entry level position. The term Entry level, should be reserved for jobs where the applicant does not need experience. There are also abuses with the use of "experience" as well: 1) If you have skills in a given area that you gained by doing something for yourself, employers will claim that presenting that work as experience to be a conflict of interest. 2) If you were not paid by an employer to do that work, it is not counted as experience. As a result of these biases against people's real world experience, it is insanely difficult to break into a field and get the experience needed to get a job using the skills one has. I remember working at a plant on the cleaning staff years ago and overheard a gal say that the way she got hired there is that she claimed to have worked for a company that is now out of business. It's sad when a person finds it necessary to lie to an employer in order to get a job and survive.
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  2.  @powerhouse884  "Your statement is pure projection LOL. If you take Gas and maintenance cost. It is definitely cheaper to own a Tesla." It's not projection is reality. Affordability is alway relative to the individuals budget. If you have an extra $2000 in your budget, then you can afford a $500 dollar a month car note. If you have an extra $500 in your budget, you cannot afford a $500 a month car note. All the claims of lower maintenance are completely irrelevant to this fact. No one that has a tight budget is going to look at affordability in the same way that those who have a lot of padding in their budget. One of the major flaws in the over thinking of "affordability" is that no one that does not pay taxes due to low income will ever purchase an automobile based on a tax cut for this simple reason; they will never receive that tax cut. You have to be paying taxes in order to receive a tax cut. So unless the government subsidy is such that it reduces the price at the time of sale, the poor will not be able to afford EVs.
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  3.  @ali-ic5kd  "And when you do get hired, they train you for 3-6 months and want you to immediately pick things up and work until you die for an entry level position. Then they’ll say “we trained you and you failed”" If they train you for 3 to 6 months and expect you to be proficient at everything, it's their failure, not yours. It takes 3 years for an individual to become fully proficient in a position regardless of how much training they are given.
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  4.  @Jonteponte71  "You (the consumers) are the one that is going to pay the tariffs. The only one who doesn't seem to understand this is Trump himself. Someone should tell him." You are focusing on tariffs and neglecting other tax issues. Trump wants to lower income taxes as well. If Trump can get the income tax revoked, the Federal government will be back to collecting revenue from tariffs only which is more constitutional. Does that reduce the average American's tax burden? Yes and no. It simply transfers the tax burden to what amounts to a use tax which is based on the goods purchased. The end result is that the rich pay higher taxes because they tend to purchase more goods. As for the poor; it really doesn't matter whether the price goes up as a result of inflation (a hidden tax), or tariffs. Prices are going to go up and the poor never have the same flexibility as the rich to adjust their budget. In the end, if the higher tariffs result in more manufactured goods in the United States, which is Trump's goal, that will result in a stronger US economy, and a market that is less dependent on goods made from cheap labor abroad.
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  5.  @bobroberts2371  "So why don't you open a dealership and do a better job ? If so many people are unhappy with dealer treatment, you can be making $$$$ for no effort. 100 % chance you won't open a dealership." There's an application process. You can open a used dealership without one, but for a new car dealer, you need approval from the manufacturer. There is also that thing called money. If you don't have it, you don't open a dealership.
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  6.  @XBluDiamondX  I took a gander at service and found out I was too old, by a year.
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  7. @meganwiggins. 😎👍
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  8. Why does it seem harder to find a job? When I was looking for work back in 2004-2007, before ending up disabled in 2007 due to health issues, other job seekers found that some companies left job postings up after they had filled the job. They claimed to do this in case the new hire did not work out. Simply put, if companies are posting jobs that they are not putting a great deal of effort into filling, those jobs do not exist. Period. "More interviews don't do anything." That is incorrect. The real purpose of those seemingly abstract interviews, is to week out the conservatives and Christians that seek to provide specific answers for specific questions. When the employer requires you to take an entry exam and tells you; "There are no right or wrong answers." that is the first indication that an honest person, does not want to work for that employer. Those questions are asked in such a way as to weed out individuals that will not remember a specific answer they gave to a question they neither agree nor disagree with. The reason individuals have a difficult time remembering the answer to those questions is because "neither agree nor disagree" is not one of the options. By not allowing the applicant to neither agree nor disagree with a question they have never been asked before, the company is forcing that individual to lie on the entry test. It is much harder to remember a lie you were forced into telling and is not your valid point of view, than to simply neither agree nor disagree with the statement or question. Why not leave the answer unchecked? This is possible with a paper test. This is impossible with a computerized test that requires a response to every question on a page before it will allow you to continue with the test.
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