[catbertz]

Involuntarily unemployed is an oxymoron. People are only unemployed if they want to be. If people want to be employed they get a job. Freepers understand this. Moveons want to blame someone else.

I personally know several people that can't get hired at tiny fractions of their former salary. Too experienced/educated, too close to retirement(mid 50's lol) or former pay scale too high.

Basically their history/resume is killing them, and you can't just omit things these days. That's a sin for job seekers, guaranteed to blow your chance.

There are plenty of folks that haven't been touched by this job killing situation in America, created over the last 20 years, that find it very easy to cast insults and assumptions at those in the meat grinder. Pray that luck always follows you in your career.

[Bullish]

Basically their history/resume is killing them

Exactly! See my post 121 for a prime example.

[John D]

I never said there were tons of DREAM jobs, but there are jobs. Why should the taxpayer foot 2 year vacations for those who do not want to work at anything but what they want to do, where they want to do it, and when they want to.
Some may have to get retrained or go back to school or move, but they should be doing something other than sit at a computer and feel sorry for themselves.