[Kobi]

Originally Posted by ALovelyKiss

I was up late tonight and reading online at the PBS website about a Portland couple who lost their long time business and are selling off their possessions, just to keep their home. What drew my attention was a comment posted by a person going by the name of "Doug" (on Oct. 13th). I've excerpted his comment for this post and I'm leaving a link to the video and article about their situation.

I can identify with this person in so many ways! Unlike Doug spending the last years looking for work and 450 applications out, I've put out nearly 400 applications in 8 months; and his most poignant and profound insight, parallels my situation of late: "without one friend, I'd be homeless; without the other, starving." And, like Doug, I'm not eligible for unemployment: I'm a skilled tradeswoman and cannot find a suitable job in my former professional field and seemingly like Doug, I'm 51 and it appears that I cannot find a job due to my age. I might be 51, but I'm still young enough to work, I've got miles of experience, and I don't need an exhorbitant salary (a living wage is fine with me) - you'd think I could find a job, but I hold faith that the universe will help me, him and cajillions of others like us out there, to find suitable work with equitable pay.

I don't know about most of you here, but I wonder what it will take for people to realize that our country is in more than just a recession.

This struck a nerve with me. I do believe we are in the process of ushering in a new economic reality. Our former irrational exuberance and its excesses, our so called leaders and their brilliant global economy idea, and our general greediness are coming back to bite us in the hiney.

Dont have a clue how it will end but I am seeing us go back to eradicating the middle class and setting up a very rich and very poor system.

And it really irks me when I hear politicans spouting off on how we need to put more and more money into education. We are saddling a generation with educational bills when the best they can do is get a job at Mc Donalds if they are lucky. We may need to reallocate money in education into areas where jobs are expected to be i.e. health services, math and science, and highly technical areas etc.

Ok now I am awake and my mind is off and running. Good time to start cleaning the house lmao.