What do the people do whose 99 weeks of unemployment compensation do? How do they pay their bills and take care of themselves and/or their families, once no money is coming in? Are we in for mass homelessness, when they have found no jobs yet?
I wrote this below on as a reply to another blog.
I do not blame this administration for all the unemployment. I have been unemployed for 2 years now. I have been looking for work since before Obama was in office, down sized before his administration. Our problems started back when NAFTA was signed into place. When everything started being made in China and Indonesia, India, Mexico, and imported in, when the call centers were outsourced to Mexico, India, and Philippines. I can’t call without getting someone with an accent I can hardly understand. Our jobs are now over seas and we are the new 3rd world country. I have friends who are trying to feed, house and clothe 5 kids on minimum wage. It is not one persons fault, it is all the big high mighty old mans club fault that is sitting up there on capitol hill that we elected into office over the years. It is whom ever signed the free trade act into law, it is a conglomerate of things, factors. I just wish it would all end soon. All I know is that I need a job and a car. My car is going fast, and w/o a job I can’t get another. I am tired of just getting by. Central Ohio is bad. The crime in Columbus this summer is out outrageous. Something needs to be done about all this really soon.
My 99 weeks are up. I am still looking for work. I put in at least 2 applications online a day. I am glad I only have me to care for and not a family. I have some money coming in enough to pay rent, but that is about it. No pocket money, really no gas or transportation money. If and when I find a job, do I walk or crawl when I have a disability with my legs? I know there are those worse off then me.
Just Monday I went to an open house for a Temporary agency, the young lady who interviewed me said the company she was recruiting for was only looking for college age workers. Can you say DISCRIMINATION. I let her know this. She said because they want those that they can pay minimum wage to who can work part time and any hours given to them. I told her there are people with doctorate degrees looking for such right now. So the company should not discriminate, and for her to becareful when talking to people she could get the EEO on her company and the one they were recruiting for.
I am wondering what is going to happen to us all out there, are we going to be forgotten? Or will someone be brave enough to take a stand somewhere, like a march on Washington or on some of our local Capitols.
Will there be tent cities again, I say make a big one on the Washington D.C mall oval. That should shake things up. Will people have to move to public lands? We need some real help, for real people in this country. If those that are rich could help out, to create jobs or send some of us back to school that would be great. I would love to go into Healthcare Management or administration. A 2 year program in my area is $36,000. I already have loans I can’t pay back right now, so that is out of the question. Even an 8 month program for medical coding and billing is $15,000. Two major hospitals in Central Ohio will be doing big hiring soon. I have no money to go to school to even be considered. I have no job to save money to pay for school. What do those in my situation do? How do we survive.
I keep praying, using my Faith to keep me sane.
Tags: Economy, Employment, Job Hunting, Job Search, Jobless, Laid Off, Layoff, Unemployed, Unemployment
