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2.3 Million American Children + 1.5(mil) Workers HUNGRY and going HOMELESS (6 month UE Limit)

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posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 12:15 AM
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Mine as well be i know im not alone i can see it on my way to the gym everyday.

I see people holding signs, by the dozens, on every street. Thats one of the biggest new emerging markets in the US. Corner sign holders.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 12:17 AM
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onequestion
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Everyone keeps telling me to get a job at Target or Denny's but then what?

Does anyone know how hard it is to support yourself off 8$ an hour? So work two jobs, but what about going to school?


THAT"S exactly what I'm talking about .. !

it's the property taxes that are so high, it's locking out the general population, if the rent was reduced by half, it wouldn't be an issue to work for $8/hour..

In Canada, working for 15/hr seems to be a cake walk for expenses and you can live happily ever after, but, i have to wounder, how long with that actually last ?

the only solid solution at this point, is to share expenses with others, hopefully they're close friends or good hearted neighbors/human beings.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 12:23 AM
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But what degree is actually worth it, and how many graduates for that degree are graduating every year and how long is it going to be worth it?

Will it be worth it after i get the degree in a few years still or will the market have changed by then?


see...

this is what we're all facing...the unemployment office might be a good place to start to get an idea of what emerging markets / technologies are on the horizons.

Also, if you haven't already, take a interesting inventory test .. you can google it and there a few out there.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:31 AM
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Unemployment isn't meant to be used long term.

For those of youins who need work, your state dept of labor should be yer saving grace.

Most will say, "they couldn't help me." Those people probably though they'd get an easy ticket.

Life is tough, get used to venturing outside yer comfort zone. That job cleaning rest areas will keep a roof over your heads.

So stop thinking like a teenager and start taking care of your family.

UE being cut at 6 months is 3 months too long in my opinion.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:35 AM
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Note: If 10 million illegal Mexicans can do without UE, so can you.

Unless you think they get it easy...



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:35 AM
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reply to post by ChuckNasty
 


Do it yourself before you tell someone else to do it.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:38 AM
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Pays 14 an hour. We call it grounds maintenance. Clean driving record and the occasional pee test.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:39 AM
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Sounds great where do i sign up?



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:42 AM
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Note, restrooms can be literally hosed clean.

Used to be military, I know how to clean a latrine...



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:44 AM
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Sounds fun. Grew up on construction jobsites can use any and all tools + clean anything.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:46 AM
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To sign up, my state of GA has listings online. Set up an appointment, be sure to bring your bank routing info. Fillout the papers, head over to the pee testing place. Wait for follow up phone call.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:48 AM
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Im in South Florida without a bank account or a car. I am getting 1 step closer to hitting the road everyday though its pretty much 1 day at a time for me. So far North Dakota is the spot. Might have to hitchhike and be homeless for a while but it is what it is.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:49 AM
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With a construction background, I'd suggest a temp agency.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 01:50 AM
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Getting a job in construction without a truck is impossible and i have a serious set of skills and its worthless in todays market.

The construction market is dead unless your mexican, or union.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 02:00 AM
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Or if a hurricane rolls through. I hear ya. My brother does construction (brick work mainly) up north, but he settled for a job at an autoparts store. He hates it, but it's a regular paycheck .....and they don't drug test.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 02:07 AM
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onequestion
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Everyone keeps telling me to get a job at Target or Denny's but then what?

Does anyone know how hard it is to support yourself off 8$ an hour? So work two jobs, but what about going to school?


In MHO this is the plan, have mom and dad workin 2 jobs each, then they are too busy and to tired to care or effect any kind of change at all. At this point they have won, and can and will do anything they want, as your too tired to ATS or be involved.

Think slave labor minus the you having your own home part. Yes slaves throughout history had their own homes before anyone asks.

In fact, it is only in todays world where most dont own a home, lovely the way things are heading isnt it?

100 years ago, dad worked and paid all the bills himself, 50 years ago moms and dads worked, but got by really well, today moms and dads work, and NEED welfare to feed themselves. Tomorrow moms and dads and the kids will be working full time to pay for food. The next day...........you ever seen Mad Max?

We can stop this, it is in our hands, not theirs. If for 1 single week, all labor refused to work, just one week, the entire thing would be fixed.

Labor, the low guy on the totem pole, is the only guy making the business money, all others above him are taking money out of the company, as they are not producing, only the little guy is producing profits. Sure the upper guys manipulate the situation to their best advantage, but they arent producing squat, only the worker, the laborer is actually producing anything of actual value. If labor could once again understand its true worth and retake the reins of its future everything for all would improve overnight.

It has happened several times before, it needs to happen again.

Labor, this is the only work in the entire world that actually produces anything, all other jobs above it are simple logistics at best, worthless most of the time. Good only for filling the pockets of those not actually doing anything of actual worth 90% of the time.

Laborer- wakes up early, has to be at work by 5 am, still sore from the day before, has to be at work at 5 am or there is hell to pay. Clocks in begins toiling away, breaks for his 20-30 minute unpaid lunch, stops to talk to "Bob" about a problem with "X" making his job harder, and asks if it can be fixed, the boss sees him not working and takes him into the office, he now gets a write up for wasting company time, I mean production is the only thing that matters, He now finishes out his day and walks the 5 miles home, he gets to his tiny apartment, and eats roman for supper, wandering as he drifts off to sleep how his wifes day went for her, he only gets to see her 1 day a week because they both work opposite shifts at the plant, 12 hour days 6 days a week they are so lucky to live so well.

Office- wakes at 8, decides to stop off for breakfast, sees an old friend, shows up 37 minutes late...no big deal really. Plays on the net for about 3 hours, checking facebook and ATS etc.....finally gets ready to do some actual work, but it is the hour of paid lunch now, so they go to their favorite place, run into another old friend and chat it up, oopsies They are 30 mins late back to the office, oh well. They then accomplish about 2 honest hours of actual work, and once again check the internet for their likes or what not, then maybe 1 hour of actual work and go home.........it was a hard days work after all. He takes his company car home, and pulls up at his "pretty sweet" house as the neighbors describe it, he picks up his wife and they go to the best place in town for dinner, it is date night after all, and he did put in a full days work, he deserves to be extravagant.

This is the actual world we live in....WTF is wrong with this picture?



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 02:26 AM
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Getting a job in construction without a truck is impossible and i have a serious set of skills and its worthless in todays market.

The construction market is dead unless your mexican, or union.


OMG!!!!

I could write 5 entire pages about this subject........I made good money in the 90's and very early 2000's in construction...then the mexican wave hit my state (Indiana) and slowly but surely killed that, I went from one trade to another until they were all gone unless you wanted to work 12 hours a day at $5-$7 an hour.

It is sad, I was making $19 an hour on average, I was making good money......thank the Lord God above our country is the only one on the entire planet that cannot enforce its borders.......I dont blame them (the mexicans) honestly, in their place, I would also go to a better place to work for more money and better wages, but unfortunately every other country on earth wont just let me break the law and invade their market place, so I am screwed.

I mean South Korea has the exact same problem with the north crossing their borders to work for better wages....oh...they dont.....hhmmm....I meant china and India have this same problem.....oh no they dont.....I meant saudi arabia and......oh nopers.....I meant wait, this problem doesnt exist anywhere else at all on the entire planet, not even in "wartorn African nations".......hhhmmmmm.............I guess the problem is intentional here then, there is no other way to see it. They are in fact intentionally killing the middle class.

Well good thing we both see it coming, we can do somthing to stop it.....oh wait, we cant, we dont matter, and those that do dont care........I am not a quitter, I have been trying my entire 36 years, I am about to simply submit, stop working and just suck off the government teet, why not, even those here illegally get to these days? Why work for less that I can get not working? This is a simple equation to solve



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 02:27 AM
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Very well stated Oblivion.

Corporations have become addicted to competition and it has gotten out of hand.

We advance our technology and ability to perform in our jobs day after day - with promises of easier days, more relaxation, etc.

They have been dangling that carrot in front of the world population for centuries now.

The thing is, ease of work never increases, expectations increase... Every single time, no matter what... Why?

Because if we don't do it, then the other guy will - that mind set has created an addiction-like dependence on increasing production and expectations at an unnecessary rate (that mindset - along with the pretty penny the guys on top receive for the more productive slaves).

They want everybody to "go, go, go" "head down" "never mind about the man behind the curtain" "keep working" "go, go, go".

After all... why would they intentionally make things difficult for little ol' us.....



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 02:55 AM
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Very well stated Oblivion.

Corporations have become addicted to competition and it has gotten out of hand.

We advance our technology and ability to perform in our jobs day after day - with promises of easier days, more relaxation, etc.

They have been dangling that carrot in front of the world population for centuries now.

The thing is, ease of work never increases, expectations increase... Every single time, no matter what... Why?

Because if we don't do it, then the other guy will - that mind set has created an addiction-like dependence on increasing production and expectations at an unnecessary rate (that mindset - along with the pretty penny the guys on top receive for the more productive slaves).

They want everybody to "go, go, go" "head down" "never mind about the man behind the curtain" "keep working" "go, go, go".

After all... why would they intentionally make things difficult for little ol' us.....


The thing that kicks me in the "nuts" the worst is that American worker productivity is at an all time high while workers compensation is at almost record lows.

The laborer is doing his part, and then some, he is just not seeing fare compensation for it, the upper classes are simple absorbing the extra effort.

The rich are are a sponge that cannot be filled, they are a lust that cannot be "slicked", they are the epitome of the wickedest of the human condition. They always take, they never give back, they always consume but never produce, they are a cancer to our entire race across the entire planet. We NEED to cut this tumor from our midst and start anew.

Throw them out in the streets, they have no problems throwing us out in, then pass laws denying them blankets even (florida) and prosecute them for panhandling.

Let them see how the rest of us live for a change.

Too bad nobody will listen. their too busy thinking they can advance in a fixed casino game where the odds are stacked and they lose 99.999999999999999% of the time.



posted on Feb, 9 2014 @ 04:55 AM
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The rich are are a sponge that cannot be filled, they are a lust that cannot be "slicked", they are the epitome of the wickedest of the human condition. They always take, they never give back, they always consume but never produce, they are a cancer to our entire race across the entire planet. We NEED to cut this tumor from our midst and start anew.


Give me a break. You sound like Al Sharpton and his root of all evil-the 'wealthy southern white man'. You 'cancer to the human race' are the ones who take out expensive loans and take a huge risks to build a project that gives the construction worker his pay.

Just how do you define this tumor to be cut out?

You can't-I didn't think so.




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