Good news first. Talk is that unused funds from tarp will be spent on new roads and bridges, and to save the jobs of firefighters, teachers and other public employees. The number being bounced around at this point is $70,000,000,000. There was an Jobs summit today, held by the President, an attempt to do something about the terrible mess the job market is in. For the more fiscally conservative out there, you’ll be happy to know that there is no plan for a second stimulus.
Bad news. I still don’t have a job. It’s getting old, and has been for awhile. I am doing everything I can do to get a job, but it seems like no one is hiring.
No matter what the President does, that office has only a limited effect on job creation. It is up to the private sector to really get things going, and they are, from the perspective of a man who desperately wants to work, being almost painfully slow about things. Both companies that are doing relatively well and some that are coming around after a tough time are still cutting jobs and laying people off. Everyone from Georgia Pacific to Aer Lingus to Reuters to Pfizer to Wells Fargo to Lansing Michigan’s Police force are going through layoffs.
Our bottom lines are directly affected by their actions. Right now, as far as jobs are concerned, corporate America, by looking out more for the short term good of its investors, than the long term good of the customers they serve, are a drag on the economy, more so perhaps than anything else right now…except maybe the fact that the systemic problems that created the economic meltdown in the first place still haven’t been solved. Someone needs to do something FOR us, the unemployed, the underemployed, those who have done nothing wrong except have a job working for a bunch of heartless bastards.
The woman below has the right idea.
Fire me will ya...
Maybe I should be more understanding of the business needs of America? BULLSHIT. Since when have they given a rats ass about me and my wife’s needs? Or yours, or anyone else’s? They care only about their bottom line. Should we be different? Should we not learn from their lesson? The world needs to stop being so nice to these people who clearly don’t feel the need to return the favor.Maybe I need to relax? HELL NO. I am out of work, desperate to find it, and no one seems willing to hire. YOU relax when the choice becomes get a job or get forced out of your home because you can no longer afford it. Thousands, tens if not hundreds of thousands have had to deal with that already, tell them to relax, tell them to wait until business is better.
This problem needs a human face, not just words on a page, either mine or anyone else’s, to make it plain to businesses everywhere that the cuts have simply gone too far. The bottom line of corporate America shouldn’t be more important than the lives of the American working man and woman.
Maybe I’m just letting my frustration over not being able to find a job get to me. But so what? I have been trying to be nice about it for too long. I’ve tried everything I know to do, spoken to others, looked for and listened to advice from a great many people, tried for training in other fields, tried to get whatever help was available. Nada. Squat. Nuttin. And I’m sure that feeling isn’t just me. Not with 17.5% of the populace out of work, or not making enough to make ends meet.
Can’t blame the people who work for these companies or the ones who are being laid off. They have done no wrong. It’s the CEO’s and all the high and mighty rich punks, and their flunkies who have been fleecing us who need a good swift kick in the ass. It may not seem like that much of a big deal to you, mister working stiff, and my venting here may seem a bit off base, but with one in 6 Americans out of work, and no light at the end of the tunnel, and more companies laying people off, ask yourself a question.
Do you feel secure in your job? I did too. Lots of other people did as well. Out of work we are, regardless. Chew on that for a minute.
Enough of that. Watch a viddy on regulation with Paul Krugman.
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That’s it from here. Later!
Today’s Nuggets, by Eric Hoffer, Via wikiquote: To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats — we know it not.
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.
Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. Other people’s assertions cannot silence the howling dirge within us. It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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