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opinion | 9-9-2010 | brianbaldwin

Posted on 09/09/2010 11:35:23 PM PDT by Brian_Baldwin

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1 posted on 09/09/2010 11:35:27 PM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
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To: Brian_Baldwin

For those of you looking for a job here is the current thread you may wish to bookmark:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2584817/posts

“Are You Looking For A Job? (Autumn/Early Winter Edition)”
Various ^ | September 7, 2010 | n/a
Posted on September 7, 2010 3:46:11 PM PDT by Cindy


2 posted on 09/09/2010 11:38:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.


3 posted on 09/09/2010 11:56:51 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Brian_Baldwin

I live in an area in FL that has been hard hit because of all the construction jobs that have gone.

I have so many friends who have lost their homes. It’s sickening.


4 posted on 09/09/2010 11:57:52 PM PDT by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
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To: Cindy

BTW, I was a career counselor for veterans and ran a district-wide program from 1988 to 2000, so if any FReepers have any job-related questions, feel free to FReepmail me and I’ll try to help.


5 posted on 09/10/2010 12:01:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s kind of you.

I put the new threads up on Twitter, too, so I’m glad you’re around to answer to questions.

Thank you 2ndDivisionVet.


6 posted on 09/10/2010 12:03:24 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Brian_Baldwin

Sadly, no mention of union and public labor.

Simply because “corporations” are not rising to your expectations of heroism does not mean they are responsible for the Socialistic agenda that’s wreaking havoc on our nation. If you’re looking to hold someone else accountable for the wicked actions of the bastards that are legislating the highway to hell, find out who voted for them. Good chance, you know a few.

Yes, I’m an evil capitalist that takes exception to your focus on the corporation. Corporations large and small are the most adaptive engines of our economy. They respond to the whims, desires, and needs of the marketplace. They are merely reflective figures of investment and patronage.


7 posted on 09/10/2010 12:08:30 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Immediately upon being laid off I enrolled in a class. A year later, class is done, now learning some new software that will get me work.

I help family and vets in the other time. Still unemployed 19 months later after ten yrs. in what was the best job of my life.

Buck 0fama and all the rats in the District of Criminals.


8 posted on 09/10/2010 12:08:38 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (toodamtall1@yahoo.com. From Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
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To: bicyclerepair

What kind of work are you looking for and in what locality?


9 posted on 09/10/2010 12:11:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This thread is thread #4 for those looking for a job. It’s a bit old, now, but some links are still good:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151983/posts


10 posted on 09/10/2010 1:32:28 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Brian_Baldwin

I had worked, everyday since coming out of the service in 1970.

Next Monday will mark my second year of unemployment and job hunting.
The hardest part in all of this is .. I am 58 years old and I have to depend on my 70 year old wife’s part time job, for us to struggle through.

Yes,’dignity’ is Very Hard to hold on to!

Thank You for your post.


11 posted on 09/10/2010 1:35:44 AM PDT by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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Either these Corporations now stand up as Americans, and stand with Americans, or they are not to be considered American at all.

How dare corporations try to escape from crushing taxation! How dare they attempt to diversify away from the creeping fascistic control of the Left by (gasp) building assets in other countries!

Spare us this 'rage against the machine' dialectic. The US is suffering because Big Government has made it a terrible place to produce wealth.

If you attempt to force corporations to waste their private property in the toxic environment that America has become, you have become a KleptoMarxist.

12 posted on 09/10/2010 1:42:43 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: All

Various sites are up with free tutorials and readings about technical subjects. Example: http://www.learnthat.com/

They may not be complete, but a person might be able to start searching and find something to check out at a library.

Also, IIRC, MIT has published a whole raft of its course materials at MIT Opencourseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

No registration. And, it’s all FREE.

Here is the bookshelf of Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf

Free Tech tutorials: http://www.techtutorials.net/

Free skills: http://tutorials.freeskills.com/

You get the picture. If you need a job, you might also look to see if there are some free online courses or tutorials you can take AND SUCCEED IN COMPLETING just to prove to yourself that you have the ability and to give you the confidence to keep going.

You can do it. You have to believe you can, but you can pull yourself up by the boot straps.

There was a time I lived in my car. With a supportive family and my own determination, I clawed my way back. Sometimes, I thought the pain of several events were enough to feel numbed down to the tips of my toes. I about went down for the count. And other things happened, too, but I digress. So, for you who is reading this, I repeat the haunting words of my mother, who often said to me, “This, too, shall pass.”

Events change you. But you are here and reading this now because God has a purpose for you. Remember that when Meshak, Shadrack and Abednego walked out of the firey furnace unscathed, the people who opened the doors were knocked dead....but no one could figure out who the fourth man was that was with them there, walking out behind them. No one knew then, even though we know His name.

I humbly call down the showers of blessings, protection, miracles and financial provision of the Almighty God, on the heads and families of those Believing, God-fearing Christians reading this post. I ask for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit to fill the downtrodden with the Breath of Christ and to repentance and renewal of their spirits with His Purpose and Divine Will for their lives. In Jesus’ Name, I claim this Grace for such people, Amen.


13 posted on 09/10/2010 1:54:04 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: agere_contra

I agree and what I’m afraid is going to happen next is that Fedzilla is going to try to strong arm and intimidate companies into repatriating.

I’d imagine more than a few are crunching the numbers and trying to figure out if totally divesting themselves of the US is the most viable option for them.


14 posted on 09/10/2010 1:58:18 AM PDT by Nickname
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I know people who have lost their jobs and voted for obama. I feel no pity on them whatsoever. Many of these people called me a fool and attacked me personally during the election.

Many will not speak to me at all now that I told them they got what they deserved. I don’t care anymore. Tired of friggin’ idiots voting in these parasites who then destroy the US. How you like your hope and change now boys?


15 posted on 09/10/2010 2:11:43 AM PDT by packrat35 (I got your tag line..)
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To: combat_boots

Wow, THANK YOU!


16 posted on 09/10/2010 3:32:28 AM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
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How many of them voted for the Marxist?


17 posted on 09/10/2010 3:53:19 AM PDT by ballplayer
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Pray that America returns soon from its descent into evil.


18 posted on 09/10/2010 4:21:22 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Gene Eric
Corporations large and small are the most adaptive engines of our economy. They respond to the whims, desires, and needs of the marketplace. They are merely reflective figures of investment and patronage.

Not to mention the several TRILLION dollars of our tax monies being gifted to them. Adaptive corporate whores perhaps. They jumped on the government welfare train quicker then some crackhead baby's momma from the south-side. Exploitive greedy "bottom line" feeders, the majority of em. A reflection of Capitalism...a shadow with no loyality to the home that built their sucess. To hell with them.

19 posted on 09/10/2010 4:22:48 AM PDT by KDD (When the government boot is on your neck, it matters not whether it is the right boot or the left.)
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To: agere_contra
How dare corporations try to escape from crushing taxation! How dare they attempt to diversify away from the creeping fascistic control of the Left by (gasp) building assets in other countries!

This crap doesn't cut it. Corp's are in bed with government, similar to the fascist arrangements of Europe circa 1930. Corp's just pass tax increases on to the consumer. Corps have sped up the destruction of Freedom in this country by convincing the Feds to nationalize all laws. That is good for FedGov™ and good for the global corps, but real bad for u and me.

The mantra "it's too hared to follow 50 state laws", well tough shit that is the way it works. Corps are now run by Poison Ivy League liberals who actually believe affirmative action and global warming is fair and real.

20 posted on 09/10/2010 4:31:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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