Laid-off workers growing desperate

Bergen Record ^ | December 7, 2002 | By KATHLEEN LYNN, CHARLES AUSTIN, AND ALLISON PRIES

[KQQL]

Frank Loudberg should help them........now..

[Leisler]

IMHO 10% of people employed are out right thieves and should be working for gruel. They are so non-productive that most business would vastly improve without them. Another 20+% are total coasters. The rest begin to add value.

Myself I don’t worry as I am self employed doing hard dirty skilled work that my competition is either too stupid, lazy or don’t work had enough such that I haven’t not wanted for work for decades. This guy is doing concrete and couldn’t find work? With a residential crew? A mason? Ha!

[marbren]

The manufacturing sector in the USA is diappearing. All that will soon be left are $7.00 /hour service jobs.

[marbren]

"disappearing" (sorry)

[Asclepius]

... "President Bush? Well, I love him to death, but he's got to do something domestically. I need a job" ...

Apparently he was reading from his Democrat talking points. The next words out of his mouth were probably "this whole war on Iraq thing is big distraction, I think, from our domestic [woes | crises | troubles | ].

[Asclepius]

... All that will soon be left are $7.00 /hour service jobs ...

Most of the millionaires in this country work service jobs--financial services, mainly. And our manufacturing sector has been in decline since the '30s relative to the rest of the economy--it's now aobut six percent of our GDP, yet we have the largest, strongest economy in the world. Go figure.

[RJCogburn]

earn $16 an hour shoveling snow

Hmmm........

[dinodino]

Leisler, I do believe you are correct, although your percentages may be a tad low. ;) In every big company I went into as a consultant, I wished I had the power to issue pink slips, because after a couple weeks I could identify the slackers who could've been fired and never missed.

[Arkie2]

We'll see Bush's real economic agenda now the Tommy Daschle is out of the way. The firing of O'Neill and Lindsey is just the clearing of the decks. I expect some major tax cuts next year.

[marbren]

I agree but those big financial service jobs could go overseas in an instant through a wire transfer. The only thing we export are wheat and beef.

[kittymyrib]

All those illegal aliens at construction sites across the coungry are taking jobs from U.S. citizens. Every employer ought to be fined BIG TIME for employing illegals when our own men are out of work. Any INS agency in the country could go to construction sites, chicken and beef processing plants, carpet factories, restaurants and farms and find thousands of illegals to arrest and deport. INS agents are not doing their job, but they do cash their paychecks every month, courtesy of the taxpayers who have to support them.

[marbren]

I think we should take over Saudi Arabia and get gas for 50 cents a gallon.

[another cricket]

"I'll take anything as long as I'm making more than $13 an hour," he said.

I think I have identified why this guy does not have a job. There are guys out there who will take any job at $12 an hour and even at $11 an hour. So if you were hiring who would you hire?

Wake up people! It isn’t a sellers market out there anymore.

And yeah, I do understand, I lost my job too. I might lose the one I have found since within the next few months, the company is struggling.

a.cricket

[Cvengr]

We already have gas at 50 cents a gallon,....it's the other dollar in tariffs, taxes, and fees that keeps entrepreneurship down.

[marbren]

Clinton decided to let the Chinese make all our products and the Muslims sell us oil. The chinese slave labor has kept inflation down. Giving in to Muslims gave us 911.

[Cvengr]

"I'll take anything as long as I'm making more than $13 an hour," he said."

Now, where is this fellow's self-esteem? ...Why stop at merely an hourly demand? Why not insist that he'll accept any postion as long as it pays over 7 digits annually,....perks to be negotiated. /sarcasm off

[marbren]

Globalism is the way to go, but for the third world to come up, the USA will have to come down.

[marbren]

The USA runs the world right now. How long will this last?

[Cvengr]

IMPROPER GRAMMER ALERT!

"He has applied for jobs installing telephone systems and doing roofing, with no luck. "

Does this mean he applied for a job to have intercourse with the roof? Roof is a noun. The installation or construction of a roof has been described as 'roofing a building'. This exemplifies how too many people use 'doing' as a substitute for a verb expressing a meaning.

e.g Too many folk are doing the doing thing!