Job's Job's Job's !!!!!!

[NikRik]

   I do not know how the unemployment is effecting you and
your family ? However for me a 52 year old father of two
teenage kids it has turned our world upside down . One of my
brothers has filed bankupsty and is losing his house also ,he
had his ouwn painting contractor Bis. He is two years younger
then Iam and in todays job market being unemplyed and 50+
years old makes you unemployable ! Thats perhaps unlless you
want to handout food samples for $8 an hour ! The contrast
from the haves and have nots is right in your face in the town
I live in ! With two country club custom home tracks . One of
them you can literlly drive endlessly with one huge mansion
after another, oddly enough most of the people living in these
homes are not even Americian. They are Dr's and computer
specialist from other countriess. I do not need all of that
what I need is a job to keep a roof over my families head I
have fillied out so many applications knowing full well I will
be excluded due to age ,a lack of exprience. I worked over the
past years in retail Jewelry sales . Thats a bis which has
been heavily affected by this economy. I know if you are sick
that medicial heath care coverage is important , however I
feel strongly that Jobs should have been the first thing to be
addressed by our new President Obama. People out of work cant
even afford whatever deal they make reguarding health
coverage! We need to have a income B/4 anything else ! JOBS
Now 
                                             Unemployed
Democrat   

[G_j]

1. K&R!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I Can Emphathize With You.

Good luck.

[Donnachaidh]

3. my DH, also in his 50's was underemployed for a year and a half

He only recently found something stable, at a 25% cut.

I totally hear you -- it's a horror show that NO ONE wants to hear about. Having to beg charities to help you pay basic utilities, trying to feed a family from food bank handouts -- it's a soul-crushing mess to live with.

We need SOLIDARITY to bring jobs to the middle class AND to bring justice against the banks and corporations that caused this mess.

[JDPriestly]

4. Thank you NikRik

You said it all. At first I thought you were one of my friends.

My heart goes out to you and your family. We are all in this boat together, and it is sinking fast. We need to help each other out. Your post is going to remind someone that we are not alone and give them hope.

The media is trying to divide the country even more than it is already divided. But we need to pull together at this time. Thanks again for posting this. You stick to basics and that is where it is at.

Please write your congressman or woman and your senators. We need to stop the free trade bleed now.

[Christa]

5. Thank you for posting, NikRik

I can totally relate as we are in the same boat.

:(

[DisgustedInMN]

6. We'll get nothing more than lipservice from ObarahmCo..

... when it comes to answers for those of us in the Unemployed Over 50 situation. None of those bastards care about anything but themselves and their personal chunk of power. Hard to see a nickel's worth of difference between them and Republicans.

[lonestarlib]

7. Right there with you

I'm closer to 60, too young to retire, but apparently too old to be hired.

[LiberalEsto]

10. same here

58 and female

worked in newspapers over 25 years

I dream of finding a job that I can some day retire from

[Dappleganger]

8. Welcome to DU!

Your OP rings true, people want to WORK and be able to LIVE while doing so!

[cilla4progress]

9. Me, too --

55 and unemployed. I don't expect I'll ever work in my profession again!

Cheers - :toast:

[Starry Messenger]

11. Totally agreed.

Welcome to DU, NikRik

[OhioChick]

12. Agreed......too many unemployed in my neck of the woods.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[Winterblues]

13. Jobs was the very first thing Obama addressed with his Stimulus bill

It alone helped create or keep over two million jobs in 2009 and they just passed a Jobs Bill in both Houses. Health Care is intricately involved in jobs since the burden is on employers to provide Insurance to their employees. As costs escalate employers are cutting back because providing Insurance is just getting too damn expensive. If business can get out from under that extreme burden of Health Insurance then business will boom and hiring will begin "Big Time"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. I Don't Blame Obama For The Jobless Situation But I'm Afraid The Voters Will

I blame the jobless situation on capitalism but it's easier to blame the party in power.

[troubledamerican]

15. There's no apostrophe in "Jobs" as a plural. Stop the madness.

[jobwithout]

16. Jobs arent whats important

Just ask everyone whose got one.