http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/10/16/the-long-term-unemployed-caught-in-a-perfect-economic-storm/ A civil rights blog promoting informed discourse on issues of race, justice, equality and democracy. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:11:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/10/16/the-long-term-unemployed-caught-in-a-perfect-economic-storm/comment-page-1/#comment-1680 Nancy Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:28:34 +0000 http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=10875#comment-1680 I am angry. Technically I was "laid off" along with many other employees in Nov. 2008. However, in actuality my job was stolen from me. It was not the first the gov't took. Jobs and careers having been disappearing since at least 1975. How did the US steal my job? Easy, the gov't gave and continues to gives tax credits to companies that outsource overseas, continues to trade with other countries even though of the goods can be produced here and be of better quality, by the Cap and Trade Act, by the gov't being corrupt, greedy and power-driven. Secret and overt Members of corrupt businesses and many people in gov't were never "voted in" but given their positions and the power that goes with them. They continue to steal jobs, our income tax, and out children's and out futures. They want our dignity, souls, and total control over us. They bailed out AIG, Goldman Sachs, etc. immediately with no stippulations or accounting, whatsoever. Yet the unemployed have many stipulations on their paltry unemployment checks. Each hour that the Senates debates the unemployment extension issue, the economy gets progressively worse. Unemployment checks help keep mulitudes of businesses going. I refuse to live under a dictatorship along with multitudes of others. I am angry. I will NOT go quietly. I am angry. Technically I was “laid off” along with many other employees in Nov. 2008. However, in actuality my job was stolen from me. It was not the first the gov’t took. Jobs and careers having been disappearing since at least 1975. How did the US steal my job? Easy, the gov’t gave and continues to gives tax credits to companies that outsource overseas, continues to trade with other countries even though of the goods can be produced here and be of better quality, by the Cap and Trade Act, by the gov’t being corrupt, greedy and power-driven. Secret and overt Members of corrupt businesses and many people in gov’t were never “voted in” but given their positions and the power that goes with them. They continue to steal jobs, our income tax, and out children’s and out futures. They want our dignity, souls, and total control over us.
They bailed out AIG, Goldman Sachs, etc. immediately with no stippulations or accounting, whatsoever. Yet the unemployed have many stipulations on their paltry unemployment checks. Each hour that the Senates debates the unemployment extension issue, the economy gets progressively worse. Unemployment checks help keep mulitudes of businesses going.
I refuse to live under a dictatorship along with multitudes of others. I am angry. I will NOT go quietly.

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