Unemployed and Trying Stories; Economic Stress is Hard to Handle
November 3, 2009 · Posted in Uncategorized
We would like to thank you all for your unemployed and trying stories. We encourage you to send us emails with your stories! Please vote on the Unemployment Benefits Extension poll as well!
- I have strong feelings concerning the proposed unemployment benefit extension. I am one of the thousands involved in layoffs in the past year, (2009). And yes, my benefits are coming to an end soon. As of yet the employment situation has not changed much. Sure there are more employers beginning to rehire but many more are still on the sidelines just watching the progression of the economy. My career is in the automotive sector, but anticipate it will never be as it once was.
As the last thirty years passed more and more manufacturing activity in the United States has passed off shore never to return. Which leaves us as a country with service industries and medical industries as our GNP! Well, all is good until we can no longer buy our fast food and medical care because very few have jobs and even fewer and fewer people can afford the ridicules cost of medical coverage! Where will we find ourselves then?
Where as a nation are we headed? I think to mass poverty which would make the last depression look like a walk in the park. At least during the last depression the world needed items manufactured in the “USA”. Now during this depression no one needs “made in the USA”.
To say the very very least we as a nation are headed for deep unrecoverable trouble.
Instead of the National government throwing money at the issue why not throw people at the problem and get people back to work. What ever happened to the governmental suggestion of purposing a tax incentive to employers in creating positions? That may be a good start in restoring our work force and we might just be able to begin restoring some of the broken down infrastructure.
So yes, I do hope for and extension but I also look forward to a job, and at this moment any job will do!
Sincerely,
Disillusioned American citizen
- I myself am apart of the 185,000 unemployed American workers today,
It’s just so frustrating to continually try to seek employment in or slowing economy when there are no job openings. Countless amount of illegal imigrants with jobs and benifits, while the once hard working americans are left without jobs, most individuals lost there health coverage, and are stuck with a lack of resources.
I’m a father of three and it hurts me more that I can’t provide for them as I once could, maybe if the GOP would take it into consideration that more and more Americans are falling into a serious DEPRESSION & not only are we suffering our children are suffering!
- I have been unemployed since March of 2008. I lived in another state when I lost my job due to economic stress.. that’s the reason they told me when they laid me off… Since then I sold ALL my belongings and moved back home to another state. I have been all over the internet looking for jobs, I buy every newspaper looking for work, I applied at several temp agencies seeking work without success.. so I am NOT one of those “lazy” people that do not try to find work. I can’t express the importance of passing this extension not just for my sake, but for the sake of hundreds of thousands of other people like me and worse, trying to feed their children and keep their homes.. for god’s sake, what is this pathetic world coming too? While congress sits back and stalls, there are people losing their lives, this is very unfair in an extremely challanged economy! This must be passed!
UPDATE: We have had an amazing response to this issue! If you would like to write an article to those in Washington as to why YOU think unemployment benefits should be extended please email them to jwojdylo@subprimeblogger.com. If your article is free of profanity and any direct insults we will be more than happy to post it here on Unemployed and Trying so you can send the link to anyone you choose.
Author: Jesse Wojdylo
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