Posted on 08/17/2010 7:43:02 PM PDT by Nachum
Glenn Beck has a message for the chronically unemployed: You're a bunch of un-American losers. The Fox News host thinks some 99ers — those who have used up their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits—should be embarrassed to call themselves Americans (Snip) "Go out and get a job," said Beck. "You may not want the job. Work at McDonald's. Work two jobs. There has been plenty of times in my life I've done jobs I hated, but I had no choice. Two years is plenty of time to have lived off your neighbor's wallet."
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We are caught in a suicidal viscous circle. Companies suffering from the economy seek to save money by displacing American workers in favor of cheaper foreigners. The resulting unemployment makes the economy worse and thereby motivates further belt-tightening by additional displacement of Americans.
Now I wouldn't go back to work in that manner again. I have changed my lifestyle. None the less, many people do not have the proclivity or other factors that can make it easier to recover from an incident of Unemployment. Also MOST people do not have the financial legs to pull off a long unemployment stint.
Not that a strong sense of self confidence is wrong, it is just that a little humility and compassion for what people are going through would serve you well.
When they come for you it is always a surprise. It is most often when you least expect it. I was let go from my last job the Friday after I won a national sales contest. Never did get the cash bonus and trip for that one, I think the owner kept it.
Interesting idea -- tax policy has always been a great tool when used wisely.
I assure you I am as much if not more comfortable managing local resources. Face to face is a heck of a lot more efficient and effective.
A lot of that coordinating is bringing cats over, feeding em and them sending them back with some PC guidelines they never give to the untouchable youngbloods that they hate anyway. It aint a Ford mini course :)
Also some bit about telling them not to talk to the press.
Whenever I get really depressed about my own dire situation, I can count on this movie to pull me back to gratitude and realizing how blessed I really am:
Thus the point of my words -- complacency is a bad strategy! If I was that confident I would not work so hard on so many aspects of my career.
I really did want to help folks -- especially the younger ones: KEEP YOUR TOOLS SHARP AND YOUR NETWORK ACTIVE!
OMG did you even read what I said? I want a job! Not the damn unemployment! Unemployment benefits are nothing but slow death! My proposal is for the government to get out of the private sector so it can flourish again.
>>By the way, it was the fifth time I won that sales competition. The only other person to win it more than I did was fired six months later. He was as surprised as I was.<<
I have never understood how that kind of thing happens. As a manger, I have always said “my job is to remove barriers so my people can do their work unfettered.” I live that. But I never understood managers who seem to live by “my job is to have you make me look good.”
Maybe I am naive and will be forever...
Exactly.....and imagine over two more years of this what things will look like...rather what they will be. It isn’t going to be pretty.
I have a friend who took a job in retail....they looked at all the companies to see who was most solvant...agreed to work part-time with the understanding of being cross trained and thus able to work in other areas. Learned that retail is moving toward only one full-time worker in each dept. all others as part-time but worked 35 hr. weeks thus avoiding benefits. Though turnover is high for part-timers...cheaper to train newbees and just keep rolling them in and out. They have a full-time trainer running classes 40 hrs. weekly.
>>OMG did you even read what I said? I want a job! <<
I sure did, but I read that you were racking me for suggesting that Unemployment should be limited.
If the TOTUS-reader would just cut taxes deeply and get out of the private industry (and dissolve Freddie Mac and Sallie Mae) then the Capitalism engine would rev up and unemployment would plummet almost overnight.
But that ain’t gonna happen with this Kenyan commie perpetual vacationer will it?
The sentiment in this country is ‘pre-revolutionary’ If things continue as they are going, and if the present administration insists on forcing more and more unwanted bills, Health care, take overs, bail outs, stimulus for government workers pensions. A coup may occur.
My entire point is that there are whole segments of the economy and the country that have dried up. Most people can not move for a job, or if they did they would be bankrupted because they couldn't sell their home. Or their wive works and that job is the life line for the family.
It is tough out there, I understand that you are doing well, however many many people who have never had problems with work before are absolutely devastated and mentally in anguish. Their are many people who are now being forced to tell their children things that children shouldn't have to hear.
The last thing that these people need is to be told that their situation is their fault and that they are lazy if they don't excel.
It is just harsh, and not very nice.
Unfortunately, if such a thing were to happen it would be preceded by untold suffering. Some like to imagine an American 1776 style revolution. That is fantasy.
Thanks for your thoughtful post. As the misery spreads, somein their ivory towers will eventually be touched.
I agree, I am not advocating one., but I wouldn’t be too surprised if we get a couple more years of this crap.
Just an observer but point well taken and understood before you typed it. Some of us live alone and work in the dark.
The problem with that scenario is that if the elite senses an outbreak, they secretly will fund their own “people power” movement to divide and conquer us even further. Americans need to relearn how to take care of our own and stop being suckered by traitorous elites.
What's wrong with being an outsourcer?
If it's more efficient to outsource it, then it should be outsourced. Let the market (not the people, not the government) be the judge! If the judgment to outsource is wrong, the market will punish the outsourcer. If right, the market will reward. That's how the cookie crumbles!
Ultimately, outsourcers who are correct about what to outsource will enrich the likes of cynwoody, a cheapskate consumer. Outsourcers who make the wrong decisions will go bankrupt, and cynwoody will never hear about them.
Now, as to the case of the folks who didn't get to do the outsourced work ... they need to retool their skills to take advantage of comparative advantage. That may be a chore, but sorry, but that's how the cookie should crumble: to the consumer's advantage, not to fairness or social justice or progress or whatever. F all that!
The elites will be pulled down very quickly. And many bad things will happen. The Republic, much like the one that was ended by Octavian in 31 BC) will cease to exist in it's present form.
Tyranny knows no bounds, Look at Obama,arrogant, ignorant, and ruthless.
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