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I was recently at a local establishment and one of the discussion topics turned to unemployment. At this point, a schlump at the bar stated that he hadn't been able to find work in over a year.

I asked a simple question: "You're telling me Wal Mart hasn't been hiring in over a year?" You would have thought I told him that I had killed his dog.

LOL...I know what you mean. If we go into the kind of economic crises that I think we are eventually going to have, it could be tomorrow or a few more years. Unless the politicians really knuckle down and start cutting the budget. Those kind of people are going to be the first one’s to riot, or try to take what doesn’t belong to them. They are so use to having others carry their weight. There is just a big enough part of the population that aren’t willing to sacrifice even a little. We have to many politician’s that never really do anything but, make more laws and take more money and fight the few politician’s that are trying to do the right thing. Like that 99 weeks unemployment. I’m sorry but, that is just to long. Go do what my daddy did. He worked 2 full time jobs for about 1 year. And then worked all the over time he could get when he went back to one job. Many people work 2 jobs. Full time and part time, it isn’t easy. But, living off others when you can do something is immoral, even if it means scaling back your lifestyle.

My first job out of HS was in a local factory. I was so filthy When I came home from work, my mother made undress in the cellar.

I made enough to get into school and never went back there. It was a real struggle and now, even with a degree, I have to work a part-time job in addition to my straight boogie, just to break even and save a little.