[2ndDivisionVet]

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?!

[a fool in paradise]

Mine benefits expired 6 months after filing.

[rabscuttle385]

$70,000 a year as a secretary?!

She's in New Jersey. It's a high cost-of-living state.

[Regulator]

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.

[buccaneer81]

$70,000 a year as a secretary?!

That's the equivalent of $35,000 in Ohio.

[Borax Queen]

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+.

[JPG]

$100 that says she voted for Dick.

[douginthearmy]

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.

[Travis McGee]

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."

[parisa]

And I bet the little wretched fool voted for hopenchange last time around!

[CodeToad]

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.

[familyop]

"She used to earn $70,000 a year as an administrative assistant..."

Then she aged a little more.

[BobL]

I certainly wouldn’t hire anyone who boasts publicly about this:

http://www.change.org/members/1278519

I’d be scared to death of a Class Action the first time that I told her that her dress looked nice.