This scenario is just one of many I have gleaned out of MSNBC this evening. It is the same story throughout the country. Not only that, but one employed Boeing machinist has dodged the 20,000 layoffs by the luck of the draw. Yet, he has had to go to the hospital for an anxiety attack that he thought was a heart attack he was so concerned about his job.
Will the current Administration "buy" the election with massive spending on our countries infrastructure? The FHWA is allready talking loudly about $350 billion for bridge repairs. Some in the Congress say that it needs to be $500 billion.
Talk about a deficit-----can you feel the inflation rumbling down the mountain of debt in the next 5 or 10 years?
JOBS SEEN SCARCE
The company I worked for, Metals USA, filed Chapter 11 in November of 2001. In September of last year, our location was sold off and the new owners retained very few of the office staff. I was the purchasing manager and was not retained. I have been unemployed ever since.
I’ve sent out resumes every week since. I’ve been on one interview in all that time. I find that the hiring employers can be VERY selective and the odds of being picked for a job are very slim.
I will be 50 in July. I am a divorced woman, living in a condo on $329 a week. It’s not hard to figure out just exactly how tight money is. I will be out of unemployment compensation in about two weeks. And my savings, which I have been using to supplement the unemployment, is gone. I have NO idea what I will do.
— Marg Rettler, West Bend, Wis.
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