30 days unemployed and no idea when I'll be working again still!

[Mountainman]

I'm getting unemployment and my wife has a job. I'm spending the time each day, looking for a job, doing chores, exercising and eating right to get in better shape and doing a little recreation each day. I go to a hot springs and soak with some friends and take hikes in the mountains where I live.

So far I have kept a good attitude. I think I can cover all the bills as long as I get unemployment.

I would rather go to work though.

[Brucey]

1. Keep looking, you'll find something.

My brother and his wife, my son-in-law, my friend... all laid off since Chimp has been in office. I heard that 1 of 5 workers have been laid off since the 2000 selection. Anyone verify that? Anyway, sorry about your plight. There are many people in the same boat, and one of the main reasons we must get rid of Chimp!

[dofus]

8. I doubt that a full

twenty percent of workers have been laid off in the past two plus years, but I do know that some three million jobs have been lost in this length of time. Bush is going to be the first president since Herbert Hoover (another Republican! What an amazing coincidence!) to have a net loss of jobs during his term. If you google almost anything mentioning lost jobs, Bush, unemployement, anything at all, you'll get lots of hits.

I tried to find something I found several weeks ago which gave a very concise chart of net jobs created or lost by administration going back to Herbert Hoover, and invariably more jobs were created in Democratic administrations than in Republican ones. Even St. Eisenhower barely kept his figurative head above water in the jobs created column. For you young'uns here, there was a severe recession in about 1958, which I remember because my father was about six employees away from being laid off from his factory, and at that point he'd been working there for about eight years. My parents were very worried.

Bill Clinton, oddly enough, has the best job creation record out there.

[meegbear]

2. Good luck ...

out of work since Nov. 1.

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. good luck mountainman

hang tough, there's gotta be something out there.

:hi:

[HereSince1628]

4. Sounds like full dyas of R&R, and maybe you need that.

Good luck on the job search...

Some folks have been out for a year and are paying bills by consuming our retirements.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Someone just posted something nice about Reagan on another

thread! How quickly people forget! Vote Repub if you're Lazy and you damned sure won't have to work! I really got good at Fishing and Hunting under Reagan! Look back to the first Repub and you'll see unemployment in EVERY case right up to this calamity today! The wealthy can get the things they dream of by putting people out of work! The Repubs hate it when jobs are plentyful and you can tell your boss to kiss your ass when you get screwed and go get another job! Compassionate (to the rich) Con-servatives! It's class warfare and they are guilty as hell!

Good Luck Man!

[displacedtexan]

7. you are absolutely correct!

i don't know what to call them any more without becoming flame bait (conservatives, noecons, rightwingers, republicans?), but they do hate it when americans have job security. it's much harder to get away with crap when most of your workers can easily move from one job to another and carry tales of your company's crap.
underlying your astute observation is another thread i think is worth looking at: where will the $ for *'s creep fund come from this time? neither enron nor worldcom... repuke ceo-types are being squeezed (the old shakedown?) for more and more $ to make up for lost big $ donors.
by cutting jobs and benefits, some of these second-tier corporations can donate big $ and hope for a better seat at the repuke table. ideology may be the underlying catalyst, but greed will out.

just my opinion on your thoughtful post, hubert flottz!
thanks for the insight!

[Ellen Forradalom]

6. Me too!

We must have been laid off almost the same day!

My husband is working, so I'm spending my time taking care of my son, unpacking and cleaning the new home, trying to sell the old one, volunteering for the Dean campaign...and, oh yes, looking for a job.