When the promised lifeboats for displaced workers start to leak......

[tokenlib]

As most of you know Michigan is an economic disaster right now. We've lost auto industry and manufacturing jobs by the boatloads. School districts, local governments and other entities are laying off people by the hundreds and more....National chain restaurants and stores are closing up that might surprise you.. I could go on about the rampant underemployment..how the official 8.5% unemployment rate in nowhere near accurate because of the people who ran out of benefits and no longer get counted...though with the extension applications, perhaps we might get a more accurate count in the near future...

Of the new fields for displaced workers to consider, health care is one of the big ones. Educational programs for training and retraining abound--as do the rip-off scams promising new careers in those fields to desperate people...

Well, here in the state capitol of Lansing it isn't enough that the two remaining GM gas guzzler assembly plants, their suppliers and related industries have their workers on edge.. Now of the two major hospitals--one has a hiring freeze on many non-patient care positions--and the other is dumping 100 full time non-patient care positions. It may not sound like much--but when one of the promised workforce lifeboats--the health care sector starts hemorrhaging jobs it says something. Job security is disappearing all around--even in one of the promised lands of jobs of the future---EEEK!!!

A lot of people are losing hope out here. When the dems wanted a 26 week extension of Unemployment benefits for the hard hit states--and Bush was resistant to the 13 weeks---and Mr. Gramm said it was all mental and we needed to buck up... Some of us are getting...well....BITTER!!!!

In the long run the health care sector will have to grow. But for now--some of the lifeboats containing the promised jobs of the future are leaking---and without the lifeboats a hell of a lot more of us are going to tread water.

For many of us in Michigan it really is a matter of "it's always the darkest before it turns pitch black."

Politically, how this all plays will be interesting. All these promises of jobs of the future are nice....but how the heck do we get out of the water right now??? All across the rust belt the questions are being asked.

And NO WE DON"T want a promising new careers in selling INSURANCE or anything else you suggest where WE could make $80,000 in the first year in YOUR DREAMS that you're trying to sell US in response to reviewing our resumes on Monster or in the state job bank resume pool ..DAMN VULTURES.....

And keep your GOD DAMNED NETWORK MARKETING schemes away from us too!!!!!!

And Mitt Romney will come in here as McCain's VP to help deliver the state?? Promising WHAT???

Hell yes, we're getting bitter out here....

[lonestarnot]

1. Fuck A right we're getting bitter out here! I've begun to fill my bucket with rocks!

[Double T]

2. Help is NOT on the way. Until their is new intelligent leadership.........

in corporations, legislative bodies and wall street there is ABSOLUTELY no hope for anything getting better; it will only continue to get worse. Fewer jobs means fewer and fewer consumers means an ever dwindling economy. The economic problems will NOT be resolved by our current legislators on BOTH SIDES of the isle; we have already seen what a 'do nothing' and 'do less than nothing' congress is all about......NOTHING! Want change? Avoid buying foreign products even if it hurts and vote every damn incumbent out of office this fall. Our ongoing economic depression is a time for drastic revolutionary change in this country.