[Jammer]

I honestly believe if the Government had not stepped in last fall, that we would be in a Depression bigger than 1929 at this moment. I read for one moment on a certain day in fall 2008 that all money STOPPED being traded around the world- the credit had halted and nobody was loaning money to anybody else- and THAT was just before the election and we all heard from the President (2008) how they had to prop up Wall street, AVG, the banks and all of that stuff. Like most people, I feel things might of got carried away a little to far with all the spending trying to save key industries and our economy. However, some very wealthy business men have praised the actions of both Governments to help avoid a Depression we were looking at- and many I know honestly feel were are in a depression here now. Gosh, when I think of all of the "fixed income" (entitlement programs) right now and look at who actually has a job and what kind.... well it's a sad picture. I do not mean to get into a red flag issue. -I still have family and friends in Michigan, and yes some are lucky enough to have jobs, but the stories I am getting sound extremely bad right now for Michigan.. So, it's not just what skills a worker has, it is also got much to do with what part of the Country you live in.

CNN reported that most of the recent college grads were working at MC DONALD'S! They sited they had good health insurance. In fact I do happen to know of a couple younger guys that have their bachelors but their major was not in a field they can find work in.

I have little doubt if I minded my manners and never said anything bad about the Government of CHINA, and if I already happen to of lived in CHINA, then I doubt most any job at any skill level could be got. That does not mean one would be paid enough to buy anything bigger than a bicycle to drive, and some don't get paid really anything because they are in prison for what we take for granted- like calling the leader of a government a nasty name.... It's really different. But we are told that it's an improvement for most of their way of lives.

What I do not understand are people that seem to feel America only wants top white collar jobs. If we were to have a country full of imported Doctors, Engineers, Scientists or any other high level white collar level service job, who is supposed to pay them? We need a diverse economy and we really need to start building things to sell other countries again. There is no way we are going to be able to re-train tens of millions of middle-aged/senor people for the high level service jobs. Plenty of Americans are willing to work the lower class jobs as well, but we have many companies that claim they can not find Americans that want to work, so they can get away with paying ileagle immigrants maybe $4.00 an hour. This also compounds the problems. Such companies should have action taken against them when it turns out they are hiring ileagle aliens (and normally paying a less than legal hourly wage to boot).

Sometimes I do not think it matters what career one has, if the present course does not change were going to have some serious bashing of income classes in this country. I honestly do think we are heading to be a Country more like Mexico in a few decades, or maybe the new Russia would be a better example- We will have the extreme poor, and the extreme wealthy with large electric bars and fences around their homes. I recall a trip to Key West Florida many decades ago when I was a kid and that was how it appeared in Key West in the 70's. I hate to think of the rest of the country going that direction.

haha- Did I mention that my friends normally think I'm the positive one? I guess it's true, because their hard-luck stories are worse than mine. Every weekday right now I'm getting job leads, filling out applications, having interviews, and I am NOT picky. I am considering driving a fair distance if I can get back in somewhere. (That's why I got the best car on safety and MPG that I could buy) Later I might move due to the cost of gas. The biggest cities here are not so bad, but recently I have noticed people from a large city here starting to send in resumes and apply for work out here in the sticks and small towns with industrial parks near the freeway- and that's a very bad sign to me.

One problem we have here where I live, is that it's NOT a densely populated location, and everyone knows everyone else's business. I could explain many situations here where our med size companies are breaking a whole bunch of laws regarding how they hire/fire and treat their workers, but they do what they want because they figure were all to poor and desperate to get involved in a lawsuit that would not get us anywhere any way. I have had 2 jobs here in which I was suddenly being pressured to quit, but I bit my lip and keep on doing my job the best I could. I was never late, always early, did my job as good as anyone else could- and in both cases when they seen I would not quit, they started writing me up for "going to slow", while the poeple around me were going slower (production work). Somebody cooked the numbers on me and I finally was let go, but I know in my heart it was not me, and to make it all the worse in both of those cases the very next day after I was left go a member of a bosses FAMILY got MY job! It's cut-throat here.

Ok, sorry for getting off track and getting into a rant in my own thread!! I do not wish to argue with anyone. I just wanted to explain how the economy is for ME.