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Oil boom leeches away workers in small towns

Enid News -- WOODWARD, Okla. — The local prison is so short on guards that inmates can sometimes just walk away. A gas station barely has enough cashiers to keep up with the trucks filling the parking lot. And “help wanted” signs seem to hang from every restaurant and shop.

Yet almost no one is interested in the jobs.

This is the flip side of the nation’s oil and natural gas boom. Although the expansion of drilling has breathed economic life into many small Oklahoma towns, the lucrative opportunities also are drawing people away from traditional service-sector jobs and even once-coveted state positions.

The result: Many businesses and government agencies now struggle to find enough workers. Most able-bodied people can double or triple their income in the oil patch.

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investmentdr
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like all the oil gushers are in Manhattan
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Entitlement society plain and simple. Sad.
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Interesting.
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From article:
"The statewide unemployment rate is the fourth lowest in the nation, at 4.7 percent, and more than 6,200 jobs have been added in the mining sector since last year, according to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission."

Why is there still unemployment if companies and the state can't find enough workers--too good to work? Cut off the handouts and put people to work.

“The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.” —Judge Judy



[Edited by: johntxx at 8/14/2012 8:28:03 AM EST]
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I can't blame them -- get paid while you can!
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good for them
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Supply and demand, baby!
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Good for them.
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Don't think I want to visit down there! Don't pick up hitchhikers!!!
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Good, high pay jobs are a BAD thing?
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Local economies can't compete with flash in the pan big oil jobs. Hasn't big oil caused enough problems?
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Gotta go where the money's at.
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chuckwthompson said it right
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Try paying above minimum wages. As far as taking people off of welfare, they would still qualified if thy had 1 child at the wages being offered!!

Or did all you REPUBLICANS forget that SUPPLY and DEMAND for workers too! More than the OVERPAID CEO's need to be paid more to do the job when there is a shortage of people to do it!!
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With those driller jobs come health issues
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hummmmmmm $11. a hour for $20.00 hr? hummmm wonder what the problem is?
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maybe they should offer higher pay
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DITTO chuckwthompson's POST!!!!
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ok now what
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Fill the positions with the people on unemployment and welfare. If they refuse, then cut off their payments.
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Cut off the freeloaders.
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I don't believe everything they say...
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All the prison has to do is increase the pay of the guards and they will get plenty of applicants.
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menial openings
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Eliminate liberal welfare and put them to work.
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They to pay the workers more.
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Boom or Bust.
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offer a job they will come
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Too much money problem.
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However I wonder how long those oil jobs will last. I guess work while you can and save up before the jobs run out...
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Go where the moneys at...
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Eventually the word will get out and people will come to take those jobs which are better than no jobs other places they may be living???
Brings an interesting perspective to employment issues???
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They never say anything about paying those workers more. Nor offering benefits.
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...yep, bucks in the oil fields if you want to be around those chemicals and foul atmosphere...
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need to be paying more to kept them
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