It's a sad truth of modern times, Pete. The days of "graduate school, get a job at the plant, get married, raise a family, and retire with the gold watch and pension" are over. Most of us on this board will be working until we are 80 years old unless we get really, really lucky. I'm not sure exactly what you expect politicians to do. They can't grab some shirt maker off the street and legally compel him to make shirts in your town. They can offer him incentive, but otherwise it is not the job of politicians to create jobs. They can only regulate private employers to provide fair conditions and try to entice them not to send existing jobs to Bangladesh.
It's a Catch-22, especially here in the U.S. Every single person in this country cries and wails about political creation of jobs. But in the next breath, they rail on and on about government interference in free enterprise by conjuring Thomas Jefferson and advocating everything just shy of violent overthrow while "My Country 'Tis of Thee..." plays softly in the background. You cannot advocate a truly free hands-off economy and then demand that politicians force employers to hand you a job. The two concepts are irreconcilable.
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