Where young people can't find work

WELL IM FROM IRELAND AND I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN MY COUNTRY TO BE IN HARD TIMES. I HAD TO EMIGRATE TO THE STATES MYSELF IN 1987 WHEN UNEMPLOYMENT WAS AT 19%. I AM SO USED TO UNEMPLOYMENT NOW THAT IT REALLY SUCKS FOR THE KIDS AT HOME NOW TODAY.MY HEART GOES OUT TO THEM.I HAD TO LEAVE MY FAMILY AND IT WAS NOT EASY AND STILL ISNT THAT EASY TODAY. MY FILKS ARE GETTING ON IN LIFE NOW AND IVE ONLY SEEN THEM MAYBE 15 TIMES IN 25 YEARS FOR A 2 WEEK SPELL EACH TIME. IT SUCKS HAVING TO EMIGRATE BUT THANK GOD AMERICA ACCEPTED MY VISA APPLICATION AND I AM SO THANKFULL FOR THIS COUNTRY TO HAVE OPENED ITS DOORS FOR ME.I HOPE AND PRAY THAT THE WORLD ECONOMIES PICK UP AGAIN SOME DAY AND THAT THERE WILL BE JOBS FOR THE YOUTH OF TODAY BUT UNTILL THAT HAPPENS WE WILL SEE OTHER COUNTRIES ADDED TO THIS DEPRESSING LIST OF COUNTRIES IN ECONOMIC TURMOIL.IF I PERSONALLY WON BILLIONS OF DOLLARS I WOULD HELP EVERY NATION THAT I COULD POSSIBLE HELP.

 

My only question is: What in the world is wrong with America. Why have we developped so much hate for rich people. America did not become America trying to spread the wealth around. The dems are riding this wave of hate of rich people and the reps and helping them by showing their hate for anyone whose great great...... great grand parents didn't immigrate from Europe. So America, why do we hate rich people? Second thing, corparations are out there to make money, not to become part of your family and get cards from you on Christmas. So instead of blaming corporations from shipping jobs oversea, ask them why they are doing so, the simple answer is that we have not developed the ideal environment for them to do buisness around here. We want cheap, we want it made in America, we want good wages and we want big corpartions to pay more taxes. We can't have it all America. This is my solution to solving America's crisis, let's build a country in which a family can live on one income like they did back in the days and we are gonna have more jobs than we have job seekers, another thing, we are gonna raise our own kids instead of some lady at the day care raising 50 of them at the same time.

I will be forty years old next year. I remember as I was growing up, the mantra was, "Do what you love, and you will be financially successful." In my youth, the idea that we had to perform labor which was emotionally fulfilling to us was drilled into our heads non-stop. I remember growing up saying to myself, "I want to do a job that fulfills me. Not just a job where I punch a clock, and get a paycheck. I want a job which makes my soul sing, blah, blah, blah..."

Now fast forward to a couple decades later. I am a nurse who works with the elderly in a nursing home. And no, being a nurse was never a dream of mine- not in any way, shape or form. As a matter of fact, my mother still laughs that of all her children, the one who used to faint at the sight of blood is now a member of the medical profession.

I am working long hours in a profession which can often be less than fulfilling. And you know what? I'm perfectly happy with that. Because I have a job where I make a liveable hourly wage. Because I work endless amounts of overtime, in a day and age when many great Americans can't even find a forty hour a week job. Because I have great benefits, in a day and age when many people cannot afford health insurance.

I think that my elders did me a disservice when I was young, by trying to tell me that the only job worth pursuing is one where I feel "fulfilled." If there is one difference in what I would tell young people, it's that the job worth having is the one that's both legal, and which gives you the benefit of being able to support your family.

My advice to all young Americans; start looking at postings of jobs which are in high demand, and are projected to be in high demand for a while. And start pursuing educational goals which will allow you to obtain these jobs. And don't look down at learning a trade-especially if it means the difference between a paycheck and unemployment. The same goes for community colleges. Why pay for an extra two to three years of college, when an Associates Degree is often just as good?

And don't be the type of person who is above working any form of honest employment that pays the bills. In our early days together, my husband and I waited tables, flipped burgers, roofed houses, babysat, etc. At one point, we had five jobs between the two of us. But our bills got paid, and we made enough to live.

The people who will thrive in today's work environment are the ones who are flexible.

The best of luck to all of our current and future American workers.

Contact your congressmen and senators.  Let them know that you have had it with the export of good jobs from this country, and that the import of illegal labor must stop.  The wealthy have had a truely wonderful ten years or so, but they must stop feeding off this country while there is still some life left in it.  Americans are not prepared to accept a greatly reduced standard of living just so the very wealthy can enjoy a standard of living unprecidented in modern times.  Americans will not stand by and watch everything they have worked so hard to build be destroyed in the name of 'free trade' and 'globalization'.  The global redistribution of wealth is not in our best interests, and we are beginning to wake up to that fact.  Fortunately, so is the rest of the 'rich' world.  The rise of China and India, on the backs of the world's middle class is coming to a close.  You can keep your cheap junk.  We can make it here.

How's that "Hope and Change" working out for ya? 

Disappointment of a president, do nothing congress!

I'm not rich, but I recognize that poor people don't create jobs - rich people do, or at least people who aspire to be rich.  Hating or punishing the rich is retarded.  If you have any brains you'd try to be more like them, but therein lies the problem.

Romney has stated that he wants to put you to work. Prove you want to work on November 6, 2012.