[CitizenUSA]

I’m not unsympathetic for the unemployed. The best way to help them is to kick a whole bunch of losers (R and D) out of office in 2012. We need conservatives who are willing to shake up the status quo. It’s not like we don’t know what needs to be done. We discuss it here all the time. It’s the classic fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper. We’ve been living like grasshoppers for far too long and winter is nearly here.

http://www.dltk-teach.com/fables/grasshopper/mstory.htm

BTW, the article’s author was apparently well paid for many, many years and received an entire year’s salary in severance pay. What did he do to prepare for these lean years beyond expecting government handouts? Sympathy belongs mostly to those who are responsible but are down on their luck through no real fault of their own. This guy had his good times and apparently squandered them.

[count-your-change]

Having never received so much as a thank you when a job died a years pay sounds like a golden opportunity to increase ones skill set and prepare for winter in the summer sun.

Other than how it affects their own careers I can't imagine any politician caring about whether I or anyone else had a job.