I totally agree with everything you have said 1/4 and 1/5. For example, media coverage of the unemployed. It is extraordinary that the horrors people of this country are experiencing in this intractable unemployment, but generally ignored. In San Diego, the Union Tribune prints statistics, ups and downs of job losess or job gains, but nothing about the sadness of human suffering as a result of losing their jobs, homes, health care. Photos on blogs on the internet of people in their “Golden years” losing jobs and forced into shelters or the streets. This should be front page news every day. There is constant reporting of building a new stadium for the Chargers stadium here though. There sometimes are editorial comments about doing something about removing the homeless people from the more affluent areas, or years of talking about permanent shelters for the homeless. Oh my aching back. Oh yes,I just saw a “blip” for a couple of seconds where someone had interviewed a homeless couple who had lost their home, but I didn’t get much out of it because it was so short.
Mark, you are one the people that have never contributed anything to our society but get rent subsidies, medical care, education? That’s why you are receiving unemployment benefits? Never paid taxes? I thought you said your $800 was a loan, seems like someone posted that it was a “grant.” Hooray for the charitable wealthy who can claim donations on their taxes.

I am an older unemployed Registered Nurse, born in America. The buzz word now is “foreign imports.” Experience and hard earned education of American nurses is now broken down into different parts. Then the “foreign imports” are given training to become all manner of medical technicians and one day you look around and ask “yeah, what was a nurse? Look out if you are pushing 50 or over. Your days are over. As my best friend said, who also is an RN, “we are a thing of the past.”

1980′s is a year that I remember well. I have a great deal of nostalgia for the years leading up to that time. How about the charitable Ronald Reagan dumping the mentally ill out into the streets?

I now avoid a lot of people who continue to have jobs, not all, though. But many of those who have not walked in the shoes of the unemployed people are totally clueless, and could care less. It’s so humiliating to be talked down to, and told “oh, you just have to be more positve.” Then head to the nearest Starbucks in their black “power suits.”

Who came up with that inane and meaningless remark, “Have a wonderful day?”

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I HAVE BEEN ON TALK RADIO SHOW BEFORE TO FIGHT FOR MY UMEMPLOYEMENT CHECK, NOW I AM GOING TO DO IT AGAIN,, THAT 800.300.5676 IS A “DAMM JOKE”

Isn’t it odd that whenever there’s a glitch (which sounds oddly like Grinch) the resulting “error” always favors the government?