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Francisco Pulido, 52, an operating engineer, lost his job with the opening of CityCenter, where worked on construction for two years.
By J. Patrick Coolican (contact) 
Monday, Dec. 28, 2009 | 2 a.m.
Sun Coverage
Although the local unemployment rate decreased from 13 percent in October to 12.1 percent in November, most economists don’t think the situation has improved for workers in Southern Nevada. The decrease is because fewer people are looking for work, either because they’ve quit trying or moved away. In fact, companies are still laying off workers.
Last week at the Henderson office of Nevada JobConnect — the agency tasked with helping folks find work, acquire new skills and get the unemployment benefits they’re owed — the Sun interviewed four jobless Southern Nevadans. Three were newly unemployed.
Francisco Pulido
Francisco Pulido, 52, was born in Mexico and came to this country 38 years ago. He is now a citizen. He had never been unemployed until this month.
He was laid off two weeks ago, during CityCenter’s grand-opening week. He had spent the last 2 1/2 years working on that massive resort complex.
He’s a member of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 12, but he is No. 955 on a work list with 955 names, so he is the last person the union will call to offer any available work.
As he stood outside the unemployment office Wednesday, a harsh wind brought tears down his cheeks. “I’m a little bit nervous because I don’t know what’s gonna happen,” he says.
Pulido and his wife have four children, ages 15, 13, 12 and 4. He plans on staying in the Las Vegas Valley with his family for the time being because he is holding onto hope that things will turn around.
But, Pulido adds, he can only stay for so long before he will be forced to leave, in search of work.
Beatrice Collins
Beatrice Collins, 30, a former pit clerk at the Cannery, has had two job interviews and is hopeful, she says.
Even when Beatrice Collins had work, life was hard. From her apartment on Boulder Highway, she took a three-hour bus ride up to the Cannery in North Las Vegas for her job as a pit clerk, changing buses three times. When she finished work at 3 a.m., she had to walk 45 minutes on a sketchy stretch of road to catch the nearest bus, for the start of another three-hour bus ride.
By the time Collins got home, it was time to begin preparing her three children, ages 11, 8 and 6, for school.
They lost their apartment after Collins, 30, lost her job in November. She is still waiting to get her first unemployment check. These bureaucratic snafus are not uncommon.
Her children knew Christmas this year would have to be postponed until mom can find a job, she says.
After submitting numerous applications around town, Collins has had two job interviews and is hopeful. Still, she can’t sleep these days. “I’m constantly worrying. What’s going to happen? I didn’t know how bad it was until this happened to me.”
The stresses keep coming. Her youngest son was recently found to be blind in one eye.
“You just have to hope,” she says.
She’s not waiting for fortune, however. She has two years toward a bachelor’s degree and is now determined to finish.
Heather Teixeira
Heather Teixeira, 40, a former account executive at GES, cut back on a lot of expenses even before she lost her job.
Heather Teixeira is exactly the type of person Nevada’s elite say they want to attract to the state. She came here with a college degree from the Bay Area seven years ago, after she burned out on the dot-com crash and expensive real estate.
It took some time, but soon Teixeira — pronounced “like the baseball player,” she says, referring to the New York Yankee — found work in her old field of event and trade show planning.
She rose from an entry-level position at GES, a trade show contractor, to supervisor and then account executive.
She and her husband bought a house in Anthem and started a family. Their daughter, Madison, is 11 months old.
But Teixeira was laid off a month ago and is collecting unemployment benefits for the first time in her life.
Her husband is a Teamster at the convention center, but the work is not regular when convention business is down, so he hasn’t had work for two weeks.
Earlier this year they saw that the economic collapse was likely to catch up with them, so they cut back on spending and saved as much as they could.
Since the layoff, Teixeira has cut more expenses — no more XM radio, no more landline phone at the house, no more daily newspaper. If there’s been an upside, it has been time with Madison, as well as the simplest, least materialistic holiday season ever.
The joblessness hasn’t quite hit her yet. “I’m still in shock.” But her husband worries and is having trouble sleeping.
“I’m trying to stay positive and enjoy this time with our daughter,” she says.
Ron Jacobs
Ron Jacobs, 52, has been in Las Vegas for a decade. He has been unemployed for a year, working last at Desert Springs Hospital.
For the long-term unemployed like Ron Jacobs, all the newly jobless only make things harder — more competition in a job market already glutted with too many workers.
Jacobs spent 18 years as an airplane mechanic at Northrop Grumman in Southern California. He worked on the Navy’s F-18 Hornet.
He has experienced the frustrations of the modern American economy, which for a generation now has forced companies to live by a simple rule: cut costs, downsize and do more with less.
Jacobs moved to the valley a decade ago when the going was good: He was a telephone technician at Sprint but was laid off when that company morphed into Embarq. (For those keeping score, it’s now CenturyLink.)
Next, he was a loan officer, but lost that job in 2006 when the air started seeping out of the housing bubble. He operated a forklift at Ocean Spray. He worked at Desert Springs Hospital until his company lost its contract there.
Now unemployed a year, Jacobs has applied for at least 200 jobs, he says. His unemployment benefits have run out, and he’s staying with a friend. “I’m very anxious,” Jacobs says.
He had hoped the election of President Barack Obama would make things better, but he’s disappointed. “Where are the green jobs? How do I train for them? How do I find them?”
He’ll be eligible for his Northrop retirement at 55, but until then, he needs a job, any job.
"he hoped the election of President Barack Obama would make things better".
hmmm...how was electing an unqualified politician with a socialist agenda and a racist wife ( i'm finally proud of america ) going to make things better?
idiots.
and the story about the engineer getting laid off from citycenter right after it opened is EXACLTY what's happening right now. $30 per hour construction jobs have been replaced by $9 per hour food service jobs.
Yeah, Stevem, being bitter and pessimistic and saying rude things about our president and first lady will really help things. Yessir! The whole country is suffering, not just Las Vegas. I choose to be optimistic and hopeful about the local situation here and for myself and friends and family because instead of angry, afraid, and negative. Negativity doesn't help anyone.
All of that is tough.
I hope the best for each one of them.
Each of them seem to be healthy. I know that are a ton of very rich people who would give up all their wealth to just be healthy. At least these people have that going in their favor.
They also seem to have family which is a great benefit to weather through tough times.
Many times the government can't solve problems because either government is inept or the problem is just too big and complex.
Many times when the government tries to fix a "problem" it makes it worse. Like when it saw a "problem" in that not enough minorities where getting into homes. Government relaxed regulations into lending, directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy riskier mortgages and in fact encouraged frontline lenders to reduce their lending standards. We now know that helped to create the mess that we are now in.
The green jobs is just one big joke. There will never be a ton of green jobs. It is just a line that politicans pump. Don't be a sucker.
It is doubtful that southern Nevada will see much in job growth for about 3 years.
One would have a better chance of landing a job if they looked outside of southern Nevada.
Also, one should look to be part of any innovation that is going on. That usually means that somebody is trying to gain an advantage in the market place and that is where opportunity for career growth can take place. I think the Clear internet provider company is an example. New concept restaurants are another example.
Try to determine which companies in southern Nevada are pushing a new product to fill a need in the market place. That might be helpful in landing a job.
Networking is also a key to getting a job.
The problem is that the people who run this country, county, city, are all doing the wrong things to jump start the economy. MGM is opening a eight billion dollar disaster which is only contributing to the stagnation here in Vegas. The president and Reid are too busy fleecing America with a BS healthcare bill that no one wants, and doing this to serve as a distraction for the American people AWAY from the real problem which is unemployment. The big banks and Wall street have received billions in taxpayer money, but NOTHING for Main St. and small businesses. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who is getting screwed here. As usual it's you and me, regular hard working folks who only want to keep our jobs and pay our bills and yes.. our taxes to the criminal idiots who run things.
i'm being negative?
lol...
i think i'm ( and finally the liberal media ) being realistic.
i'm being RUDE? haha. did she NOT say those exact words? has ObaMao ever run a business of his own?
so, i'm RUDE for factually stating what she INDEED did say?
ya, ok.
vegas can't sit back and use the "build it and they will come" mantra anymore.
america can't sit back and think big daddy government is going to provide a solution to the mess we are in.
2 years ago all the casino executives and politicians were saying "well...vegas is recession-proof".
and anyone that could smell that self-serving "spin" and challenged it was considered "negative" and you should "go back where you came from".
vegas is done in its current structure. no more citycenters out there on the horizon, folks.
Did the worker at city center not know his job will be ending? Anyone in the construction industry knows you have to move where the jobs are. In construction everyday you put yourself one more day closer to needing to find your next job
Yes stevem, you're showing negativity and being very rude. What do you think is so funny???? What were you thinking? You can call YOUR president a socialist and unqualified (with a negative undertone), and call YOUR first lady racist without being called negative and rude? Are you serious?
Yes, First Lady Michelle Obama did say, "I'm finally proud to be called an American..." What you didn't mention is that she wasn't talking about race or creed, she was talking about nationality (which is completely different), she was saying she was finally proud to see the democratic system was working the way it's supposed to work, she was finally proud to see the employers of our government, the American people, exercise their vote and power the way it's meant to be weilded. Don't you realize how important the past vote was to this country and it's people? Are you that blinded your own anger and prejudice that you don't understand the implications of a true democratic voting system and government?
Man, wake up, not everything is about race, most things are about RIGHT.
Oh, how many presidents are qualified? Name one president that was elected president for the first time that was qualified prior to being president? Sure, you can name a president that came into office during crucial times, but they succeeded through preservance, dedication and hard work. Also with the backing of the majority of the people. Understand, America and your community would love your support, we would love your prayers, but we will succeed without YOU, President and First Lady Obama will succeed without you. Remember, "No man is an island!"
Have you seen the movie "Hussein the Hood, I steal from the poor to give to the rich" playing at a White House near you.
chorus of the serfs: "Please Your very socialist majesty I NEED my C.O.L.A."
Comrade Hussein cuts the poorest Americans to feed pigs, throwing OUR good money after bad.
How many BILLIONS of OUR money thrown away at A.I.S, GM, Chrysler, Wall street and all the fat pigs so they can continue their vacation with their private jets.
How many DECENT jobs could have been created with that money.
No! No! in a public statement king Hussein (Our king Hussein, not the other) made it clear that he only had contempt for those small Americans who go to church and own guns.
He prefers to celebrate with a Ramadan dinner in OUR White House.
He pushes his and Princess PayLousy's health care socialist program that will help no one except a few free loaders.
Do you think he would try to REALLY tackle the problem? Of course not. Don't touch the Big Guys they finance his Soviet Supreme.
Why is a cardiology consultation, complete with electrocardiogram approximately 49 Euros in Europe and here over $300 ?
Why am I charged over $19000 for a three hours stay at UMC and a glance from 10 feet away by the so called doc in E.R. ?
Why for internal problems, again at UMC am I seen by an O.D. (doctor of osteopathy) He is not a doctor, never was , never will be
Why?, Warum? Perche? Pourquoi Comrade Hussein ?
Why is my doctor trying to convince me that I cannot sleep when I fall asleep in his waiting room ?
Why does he prescribes oxygen machine that in fact are NOT oxygen machines but glorified air filters and gets angry at me when I refuse to squander OUR tax money on such frivolous, malicious and unnecessary expenses ?
You think Comrade Hussein is going to do something about that ? OF COURSE NOT !!
All he is, is propaganda, puppets to amuse the children that is the American public.
The green jobs, that in fact do not and will never exist he can shove them. No one is going to Save our dear Planet.
Again bolshevik type propaganda just like when Lenin promised urinals of solid gold as soon as his program would be enacted.
Hussein the Hood and his gay companions of the Washington Forest indeed it is.
Comrade Hussein don't forget to kiss Chavez'rump next time and take your Mao's cap off, shaking his hand was not enough.
But, boys and girls YOU voted for it, lolol
I steal from the poor to give to the rich
(sardonic chuckle)
Please come back Mr. Bush
nb. I do however, rejoice that the democratic free system of election prevailed even if it means a pinko in OUR White House
Its a shame stevem. You just don't get it. I don't feel sorry for at least the 2 men in the article. Part of the advantage of working for so many years, especially if you are making good money, is that these guys had the chance to save for that rainy day. Francisco and Ron should have enough money saved to be able to kick back and enjoy their time off. Get creative, be innovative, take your wife on a nice vacation. You can't blame the government if you worked for good money for all those years and did not save enough. One of my good friends worked every hour that he could get for 6 months as a union electrician at city center. The union job paid him well. He has a home,a mortgage and a family. He knew the job would end but he saved enough to ride it out for along time. You might have to sweep floors for awhile. So do it and be proud that you live in a country that affords us so much freedom and opportunities and if you don't believe that try living in a third world country.
FORYOUREYES:
Whoa..no where did it say how much they made. As for a rainy day? I saved for a rainy day and at 55yrs old, I should be able to "vacation" as you say? That mentality is stupid. I have a son in college where they just "upped" tuition 31% because the state has no money (He goes to a UC school) Ya dont think that takes a bite out? And if its a case of vacation or keeping him in school - guess which one I'll choose. We all also have mortgage payments, lights and all that goes with it. Electricity and water AND property taxes just went UP - why, because the cities dont have money, so we get the increases..all this adds up to depleating that "rainy day reserve" rather than taking our wives on vacation. Not sure what you do for a living where you can "kick back" and enjoy the time off..Sounds like a union mentality. What number are you on the list for call backs?
No matter how much rainy day fund you have, when people are out of work for a year, its gonna be gone..I assume you wrote in from a beach in Hawaii !
The after-affects of the Bush Depression will be over by next Spring and even Vegas should start picking up. Watch and see, Obama and Bernanke are doing exactly the right things and the stock market is predictin' a recovery!
evidently there are no unemployed educated Caucasian males to interview
minority-centric racism -
The Barry Obama & Harry Reid Show.
Barry: we hope you enjoyed your ten day vacation in Hawaii t our expense.
Harry: where are the jobs?
Employment will not improve in Las Vegas unless some drastic actions are taken. Our economy is in the toilet and Indian Casinos are on every corner. No one really knows what to do .... But doing nothing is not the answer. Las Vegas needs to change their image To "The "Fun Capital of the World" Not "What happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas". People who drink and party really don't care if it stays in Vegas or not. Four (4) ways to increase employment in Las Vegas and to have more visitors:
1- Return Vegas to what made Vegas fun for the average person. Make Vegas Easy and Fun.... (Easy and Fun explained in number 4- below)
2- The United States has millions of retired people that have Motor Homes and Trailers that have extra income ...If Las Vegas wants more visitors stop treating people in RVs like bums... put 30 amp electrical outlets in areas that are close to Casinos and make it free to stay if they use Casino slot cards and free for everyone's first three days. This problem with the economy is going to last for a while and drastic steps must be taken if more people are going to come to Vegas.
3. Do you really think that the average Joe will return for thirty (30) dollar buffets or two hundred (200) dollar rooms? We eat at the home town buffet on Saturday mornings for $5.99 and we like it. This does not mean that we don't have money to gamble with. As a matter of fact we have money to enjoy because we have been frugul all of our lives. This is not to say that we won't go to a $30 dollar buffet on special occasions just that we won't make a habit of it. Vegas wants and needs return visitors not people that are going to say I did that once...
4- Easy and Fun... When you don't have to stand in lines it is easy. When you don't have to drive ten miles from the RV Park to get to a Casino it is easy. When a lunch buffet doesn't cost the same as you made in a week in 1960 or it is a comp that is fun and easy. When someone around you actually wins some money that is fun. When the Casinos actually give you a Comp when you lose a couple of hundred dollars that is fun and easy. You will return when you have fun because that is the nature of the beast. When you get a ticket for parking that is not fun. When you see bums and prostitutes working the streets that is not fun. Don't tell anyone they can't park their hundred thousand dollar RV in your empty parking lot because that is not fun and there are plenty of places to go that will welcome RVs and Trailers with open arms giving them free camping, hook ups and a free buffet just to see them put a couple of dollars down their slots. So tell me why should retired Snow Birds go to Vegas....
The growing unemployment situation is exactly what Karl Marx had in mind. The desperate, discontented, unemployed masses would become organized cannon fodder in a violent revolution that would overthrow Western Institutions. A totalitarian police state would follow.
The program appears to be on schedule. The managers of the totalitarian unemployment program, namely the Eastern Elite of New York, New England, and New Jersey, who are also known to be Marx's aficionados (wolves in sheep's clothing), are probably pleased with the progress being made.
Mao Zedong must be smiling in his grave. He "solved the problem" with the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Chinese Cultural Revolution." Josef Stalin "solved" it with the Ukrainian "Holodomor" and the "Gulag."
Will Obama become another Mengistu Haile Mariam, another Che Guevara, or another Pol Pot?
If the Founders of the United States were alive today, they would be gnashing their teeth in horror.
As for the post above,i'll give you one reason why it wont return,GREED!!!These fools that ran this town in the ground dont care anymore!I agree with everything you posted,and can add a few more,but do they care!THEY KILLED OFF THE GOLDEN GOOSE!And you'd have to be a fool to come to vegas anymore.
I have to agree with many of the comments made here that our fiscal situation has deteriorated immensely under the lack of leadership of the so-called coward-in-chief nobama!
We have spent trillions of dollars on programs and projects earmarked by Dirty Harry and pushed by nobama that has done nothing for this country at all in terms of increasing jobs, when in reality, it will serve up hefty tax increases to the citizenship of this country due to the spend, spend, spend, then borrow, borrow, borrow and what happens later is tax, tax, tax!
It is also note worthy to know that Dirty Harry will receive more than a quarter of a million dollars in a senatorial retirement in 2010 when we evict his arse from office for his failure to do what we, the citizens of Nevada have written, called, faxed, etc.
As Dirty Harry said himself, he no longer listens to the people for he knows what he wants to give us and that is the shaft!
End the dictatorship of the Demorats in 2010 & then again in a massive way in 2012 and send the usurper back to Kenya!
rumrunner :
EXACTLY!!!
As an American living overseas I think I have a bit of a different perspective on what's being discussed in this thread. First of all, I am a Democrat and not a fan of Dubya. That being said, the election of President Obama whilst setting a historic precedent has not filled me with glee apparently flowing through the States. The truth is that he is, like Bush, significantly under qualified to be President. Running a local community support scheme in Chicago and, what, one term in congress doesn't seem like enough. That being said, I was willing to give him the chance to prove himself. With that, I was happy to wait to see what he proposed after being sworn in as that is usually different from what is promised during the election. I was surprised, he actually tried to stick with his promises for a short while...until, that is, he had a sudden dose of reality and realized that sitting in Chicago is much different than being in the White House trying to run the country. The reaction is that, even abroad, the charisma is wearing off and people are beginning to see that he is proving to be ineffective....job creation, okay lets give it another 6 months then there can be no more excuses. The health care bill...that will take longer to see if it works. The way it is written will mean that the real deficit impact will be felt in the last 6 years of the plan (funny, after his first teerm has been completed...). That being said, maybe it will work. Who knows...? What I do know is that, having lived in a Country with social healthcare, it isn't the best and my taxes continue to rise! The current tax levels where I live are a good 5-10% higher than in the States. That's something to look forward to eh? Enough rambling though...my main point is the American public voted for President Obama so you get what you ask for.
There are 63 Indian casinos in California. On Saturday my wife and I drove only 140 miles in 2 hours to Viejas Casino. We played for 10 solid hours on there Pot Of Gold Keno machines and had a blast. At one point we were down about 3 or 4 hundred dollars, but then things turned around and we ended up leaving with $800.00 ahead. We did not hit the jackpot, but we did have some nice hits during the time of $340.00, $304.00 and the biggest was $596.00, also we hit a lot $100.00 wins. With action and fun like that, why in the hell would anyone here in California want to go to Vegas? I swear, I have a shopping bag in my store that has to weigh at least 10 pounds or more full of nothing but Comps to Las Vegas Casinos and we never go there anymore!! We even had Comps at some major casinos on the strip for not only Christmas, but also for New Years weekend. Screw them idiot corporate greedy fools! People are feed up with there machines that do nothing but suck up those $20.00 bills like a vacuum machine at the rate of about $100.00 or more for every hour that you play and NEVER give you anything in return!! Good by VEGAS, who needs ya.
Hey Folks,
I worked with Beatrice at the Cannery. WHAT a GREAT employee and what a GREAT human being. A hard worker who does not deserve to be laid off. If any of you out there is a hiring manager hire this girl. Beatrice, if I knew you needed Christmas gifts I would have personally gone out and purchased them for you. She worked her tail off Cannery. She deserves a job. Help her out Vegas community!!!!
B. Former Cannery Dealer.
I worked for the IUOE for many years, like the first gentleman. And I went through the ups and downs of construction work. I actually worked in 22 states overall. After about 15 years, I realized that I needed to do something to stabilize my employment. So I got a job as a field engineer. Then became a superintendent. Then a project manager. Then an office engineer, the best job, all without a college degree. Now happily retired.
There are jobs, but you have to be able to find them. One other thought is that it's fun to make babies, but it's hard and expensive to raise them. I had one-no problem. Four or more kids? Good luck-You'll need it.
The talk radio bigots and their listeners have no compassion for victims of the Bush economy. The average foreclosure house is a first or second time move-up house, not an "ACORN starter home."
However Grinch's like Sean Insaanity like to talk about "lenders being forced to give loans to poor, illegals and minorities." Typical hate-talk radio, blame the downtrodden for the excesses of wall street.
Guys, instead of playing the blame game, some solutions to this issue of unemployment need to be implemented. We already know the 111th Boob Brigade refuse to listen to us. We write, call and email them to say "We don't need or want healthcare reform, we need jobs", only to be met with a wall of silence or some damned pre-fab letter from a staff member. We have plenty of intelligent regular folks here that have good ideas, they just need to put them on the table and welcome some input from the citizens.
This is what happenes when elected officials become financially affluent outside of their taxpayer-supported income. They get arrogant and develop this undeserved sense of entitlement that makes them think WE THE PEOPLE are here to serve THEM. Wrong answer guys, we need to fix this ourselves instead of waiting for somebody on The Hill to do it.
You can thank Dubya and his oil company buddies in Houston, Texas for gas at $4 a gallon just a few months before they scurried off with all the loot! LOL
stevem...I KNEW we should have just listened to your boy John Ensign.
"At best, it could take until the middle of the decade for the nation to generate enough jobs to drive down the unemployment rate to a normal 5 or 6 percent and keep it there. At worst, that won't happen until much later -- perhaps not until the next decade."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Even-as-ec...
So Why Is Our Government STILL Bringing In 1.5 MILLION Foreign Workers A Year?
http://www.americanworker.org/
Why so many kids? It's ridiculous to say the least.
The top executives of Fannie and Freddy, both Democrats, should be indicted, convicted, and imprisoned. They also should be forced to shower with Barney Frank.
The problem with the economy isn't that there isn't enough money for everybody, it's that so much of it is WASTED on junk like City Center, Walt Disney Hall in L.A., artificial islands in Dubai, college degrees that cost $80,000 (UCLA just raised their tuition 30%. LOL), etc. The other problem is that everything is changing too fast. A few years ago, Blockbuster was where people rented DVD's. Now it's Redbox. There's only one recession proof industry now: collection agencies. That industry is going to EXPLODE because of student loan debt.
these arnt the only people with troubles - why did they just pick them?? ok feel sorry for them but what about all the others in and around the USA??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
even redbox is essentially obsolete. the next batch of tv's coming out have a "direct from netflix" feature.
We fly every year Ireland to Vegas-rest up a few days then rent a car and visit relatives. We then return and spend a few days before returning home. I accept that Strip resorts will wring every penny from you they can. We accept this-its part of staying in hotels with incredibly high overheads. What really angers me is the long hauling by cabs and having annual arguements. How we spend our money is solely our decision and for the suddenly non english speaking driver to decide also how we also spend our time is very anger provoking. Having spoken over the years to many other tourists in Vegas it seems the visitor must therefore subsidise the Las Vegas taxi cartel
the casino's better savor the next few days, because these people are all going to be gone in a week
Why didn't the State put some money away when times were good. Are these people EDUCATED or just go with the flow?
VisPacemPB, You are without a doubt the most ignorant jerk I have ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely no one posting here acknowledges that the recession began in 2006, three years ago. Just as it took this long for things to get to this point, it will take time to turn the economy around. We need to be rational about things before we jump on the bash-'em boat, Bash GWB, bash Bernanke, bash Greenspan, bash Obama, etc. Some of us need to acknowledge our own role in creating the economic conditions we are now grappling with. Some of us spent money like it was going out of style because credit was easy to get for houses, cars, furniture, etc. One of America's major problems is a failure to save. America used to be a nation of savers, but somehow, we changed to a nation that produces very little but consumes much more than our share of goods and services. God must have given me a sign because four years ago, I started paying off all credit cards. I only make payments on my modest home and a little Toyota that I love for its' gas mileage, and I was able to retire earlier this year and continue to live comfortably. Please pay off all non-essential debts and cut unnecessary expenses. Do you really need that extra item, or do you just want it? We want the government to cut its' spending, and we should do the same.
Note to self: don't have kids.
The partisan bickering is hilarious. You republicans think that the politicians you voted for give 2 bowel movements about you? The same thing goes for democrats. It's not about party lines...it's about money lines. Stop the high n mighty bull****, repubs.....your kind are voting against your interests at an even higher rate than our democratic constituents are voting against the interests of those who voted for them. You don't have a 'side'. And..if you did...nobody's on it.
Regardless of who woulda/coulda/shoulda have been voted into the White House, this would have happened. Arguing about what woulda/coulda/shoulda happened is so irrelevant right now. Take care of yourselves and your families as there are so many in this country without. Count your blessings and find something else to bitch about.
Yep and now here is everyones last check,,, We are letting you go because you didnt see it coming...WTF do people think that jobs are like cement now days...Yea right and Peace Prize OBUMA has talked more pooh than I have ever heard ... All that stimulus money to save companies that are laying off workers like its the new fad...Why do they get money to cutback production of something that you will never profit from if your that screwed up..I say you get what you got and yes I was unemployed a year ago but I hit the streets and found work thats suitable to make a living and Im my own boss...America is so good to me ,, since I been here all of my 50 years...You have a better chance of finding work hitting the streets,, than you do standing in line for a job that who knows how many others already applied...If you wait for it ,, Dont wait forever,, as there is not forever anymore....