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For America's "99ers," jobs crisis is hard to escape
Yahoo! News / Reuters ^
| July 7, 2011
| Alexandra Alper
Posted on 07/09/2011 12:53:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I knew they'd make the Republicans the bad guy, not the individual who ruined the economy in the first place!! $70,000 a year as a secretary?!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mine benefits expired 6 months after filing.
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posted on
07/09/2011 12:57:41 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask Barack Obama this election if he believes Jesus Christ rose from the dead and walked among men.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
$70,000 a year as a secretary?!She's in New Jersey. It's a high cost-of-living state.
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:01:11 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Meanwhile, 2 million people a year flood into the United States, sucking up jobs, money, and getting preferences over Americans simply because they are from other countries.
Betcha Ms. Coyne voted for the people who did this to her too.
Sorta hard to get upset about her. She could always move, but flexibility isn't part of her skill set apparently.
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:06:15 PM PDT
by
Regulator
(Watch Out! Americans are on the March! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
$70,000 a year as a secretary?! That's the equivalent of $35,000 in Ohio.
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:09:49 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(ECOMCON)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m sorry, but there are always jobs for secretaries and office workers if you want them. Probably not 70K, but they are there. She must have had other issues if she can’t get a job as a secretary now, unless she’s only trying for 70K+.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
$100 that says she voted for Dick.
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:15:07 PM PDT
by
JPG
(Elect Sarah Palin in '12. America won't get another chance.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have been continually employed, but when our contract turned over to a different company I had to take a $500/mo paycut. I have been looking around for other jobs but there is almost nothing. Occasssionally I will see a great job posted and apply, but so far I have not even received a "thanks but no thanks" letter. The "feeling" of everyone I know and everyone I work with is borderline miserable. Everyone feels stuck even if they have no plans to move on. Noone dares ask for a raise.
This economy is affecting everyone. I can't imagine being out of work for so long. But even people who have jobs are feeling the squeeze. Not to mention the inflation.
To: JPG
$100 says that she is a Dick.
Just kidding BOR...
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:18:03 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now.)
To: buccaneer81; rabscuttle385; Borax Queen; Regulator
The Dallas/Ft. Worth area has plenty of jobs, most at decent wages and a low cost of living (especially real estate) which is why we’re trying to move back there ASAP. You can’t buy a good job here.
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:18:54 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
To: douginthearmy
Don't worry, when Pharaoh Obama get reelected everything will be Rainbows and Unicorn farts that smell like Michelle.
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:20:57 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Anybody in 2011 who is basing their life plan on somebody hiring them and paying a regular salary that covers all the costs, is not living in the current real world. That America is dead and gone. Millions of jobless Americans are staring at the horizon like cargo cultists, waiting for the big ship to come back. It ain't. Time to make a new plan, and carve out a new niche. It can be done. The internet lets anybody become their own tycoon, high or low. But for folks with little or no creativity, and no inkling of how to build a home business, times are very grim.
"Hope ain't hiring."
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:22:19 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(Castigo Cay is in print and on Kindle.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh, that’s interesting!
The Phoenix area was a bit harder hit, but I still see good, private jobs up there in the software field (70+ even with smaller companies). And where they need software developers, web designers, graphic artists, tech writers, testers, they have a need for office/admin staff.
Tucson’s always been a low-wage, service town, so in a way, I would say, it’s a bit more recession-proof. Houses are back to more normal prices too, the way they were 12-15 years ago.
To: Regulator
It takes a lot of money to relocate across country. I’m pretty sure though anyone sending out 1,600 applications is willing to move.
Nothing but sincere sympathy. Good luck!
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:26:50 PM PDT
by
erlayman
To: erlayman
A medium-sized U-Haul truck is a lot cheaper than starving to death.
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:30:42 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And I bet the little wretched fool voted for hopenchange last time around!
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:30:59 PM PDT
by
parisa
To: Borax Queen
“...She must have had other issues if she cant get a job as a secretary now,.....”
Look at her age ....56 yo, and over 2 years unemployed is a killer in todays ecomomy......
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:32:25 PM PDT
by
Forty-Niner
(Palin/West 2012)
To: Forty-Niner
Yeah, the age thing is definitely no fun.... There’s tons of the age discrimination in play now and always :((
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Funny thing, these types of stories came out decades ago to support the need for more welfare. If you can’t find a job in 99 weeks you are obviously doing everything wrong, just like those welfare recipients in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and 1990s and the 21st century that can’t seem to find a job.
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posted on
07/09/2011 1:43:42 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"She used to earn $70,000 a year as an administrative assistant..."
Then she aged a little more.
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posted on
07/09/2011 4:16:44 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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