Posted on 10/27/2011 1:58:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 10/27/2011 2:20:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Today, millions of smart, hard working Americans are flipping burgers, waiting tables or working dead end retail jobs not because they want to, but because they have no other options. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 14 million Americans are currently unemployed and another 9.3 million Americans are currently "underemployed".
(Excerpt) Read more at theeconomiccollapseblog.com ...
Am I the only one who actually read the article?
The second example moved to New York with FIFTY GRAND in student loans TO BE AN ACTRESS.
So if your one-in-a-billion chance at making a living acting doesn’t pan out and you borrowed money you have no hope of repaying... you’re underemployed?
I. DON’T. FEEL. SORRY. FOR. YOU.
Its everyone I know! All my clients are in the same boat and barely hanging on.
People have NO IDEA how hard it is on main street right now to keep things going.
i see these pofs govt workers crying about health care and pensions and want to scream like you cant believe.
I’ve spent many an hour there. The statue outside always makes me want french fries.
You want to scream at them, I want to choke them.
I didn’t say that....
Main Street America used to be the best place on earth. Now it’s the suckiest.
Yep the ol French Fry Sculpture. I think it’s quite unattractive in all of its yellow glory.
only a tiny number can be rich...
a "dead end" job is a job...
Americans haven't always had the glorious jobs, or the govt jobs with the lavish pay and benefits...
many people woke up in the morning thinking "work" and thankful for it because it meant a paycheck....
I read that book somewhere around 2008, and I too can’t look at the events since then without wondering how this information is out there, yet so many people refuse to see it for what it is.
The enslavement of the American people, plain and simple.
Ron Paul is one of the few who address this problem with accuracy and courage. I don’t agree with him on some things, but the domestic policies he advocates would put this country BACK unto the path of freedom.
Strangely, most here don’t seem to want that freedom.
spoken like a probable retiree or a govt worker...”I got mine so I don’t give a rip about anyone else”
So tell me: if you lost your job tomorrow, do you think it would be easy to find another job and work your way up the corporate food chain, at the age of sixty? I wonder. It may be a little different out there than you think.
To illustrate my point, here's a story I have told quite a few times on FR.
About a year and a half ago, my previous employer lost a big contract and had to lay off several hundred people. This is a company that had always hired or retained a lot of middle-aged and older workers, and most were exceptional people with a fantastic work ethic, always going above and beyond the call of duty. We are in the DC area, and the received wisdom is that it has a relatively low unemployment rate, so the laid-off employees shouldn't have a hard time finding work.
Interestingly, all the under-forty workers found jobs within a reasonable period. Many of the 40-to-50-year-olds found jobs. Not too many of the over-fifties have found jobs. And as far as I know, not one of the over-55 workers has found a job, even though they were the ones who really had innovative ideas, kept the office going and had fantastic job skills. Do you think that's a coincidence, or do you think it might be possible that there is some age discrimination going on in the present job market?
There are a lot of self-satisfied Freepers on this forum. They weren't alive during the Great Depression so they've never experienced an economic downturn as bad as this is one is, and they think, as you apparently do, that because things are okay for them, anybody who's having a serious problem getting a job or hanging onto his house isn't doing it right, made bad choices, is lazy, is incompetent, is a whiner, etc. I'm not sure if you're whistling past the graveyard in hope that you'll pull through if you lose your job, or if you really are as disconnected from reality as you sound. But trust me, when you hear from conservative people on Free Republic who are out of work and can't find a job doing anything--cleaning hotel rooms, cutting grass with a landscape company, stocking shelves at a big-box store, or making their own business go in the face of regulation and taxation, no matter how many hours they put in--you're not hearing this from lazy whiners. You're hearing it from conservatives who have worked hard all their lives and don't want to be unemployed. You're hearing it from people who have run through their benefits or never had any, and will take any job, with no fussiness.
There are fifteen million people out of work in this country, and another eight or nine million who have part-time or low-paying jobs when the proper support of their families requires a full-time job. Now, maybe some of them are lazy, incompetent, stupid, etc.; maybe some have made bad choices. I don't know. But not all of them are lazy screw-ups. Not all of them are sitting around helplessly collecting unemployment comp and watching soaps. Most of them are busting their hindquarters trying to find work.
If you haven't been out there on the front lines RECENTLY trying to get a job at the age of sixty, you truly do not know what you're talking about.
Ron Paul!
Millions of dumb and slack working folks are working dork end yobs - and SUPPORT RON PAUL!
That book opened my eyes like no other. I gave it to my dad to read and he could not stop talking about it for weeks.
Most people don’t really want to know the truth about what is going on BTW.
Ron Paul is right about a lot more than he is wrong.
exactly......these crooks work together to keep themselves employed and if their business fails, they can count on fellow bureucrats or board members to give them a nice golden parachute...wink...wink...nod..nod
in my husbands former company, they declared bankruptcy but first gave all their "essential" employees huge parachutes and the rest?...lost pensions and medical benefits....
only a tiny number can be rich...
Television has taught us otherwise. We are entitled and we want it right now. :)
Difference is that with the Fed printing scams and ravenous govt, those dead end jobs no long provide anything to the worker in terms of purchasing power of the dollar.
My grandfather was able to raise a family working in a dry cleaners.
Can someone do that today?
Guess why? The money we have is WORTHLESS TOILET PAPER!
Ron Paul supporters and complete sentences are apparently as estranged as Ron Paul supporters and complete thoughts.
Hey, big deal. I did it in the mid-nineties to no fanfare.
Hey, big deal. I did it in the mid-nineties to no fanfare.
Good luck in your endeavors.
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