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Originally Posted by Catman
I've been unemployed since April 2008. I'm still putting in job applications online, just not as many as I used to...the unemployment extension doesn't apply for me, so I'm still homeless and wonder what's going to happen this winter if I'm still unemployed and get timed out of the shelter I'm in (it gets cold here in the winter) I've worked steadily for 25 years and I can't get 2 years unemployment?? Where's MY billion dollar bailout???
I'm thinking it's also because of my age (I'll be 49 in December), employers don't want to train someone who's going to retire in 10-15 years...
I think it's time to start the Socialist Revolution now...  |
You bet your bippy, Catman, if you can remember that far back! The Socialist Revolution is long, long overdue! I'm 65, the recession (ha! depression!) wiped us out, and I haven't been able to get a job for 2 years. Sure I get social security. It won't pay the bills, though. And for poor bastards like yourself who aren't of retirement age there isn't even that compensation! We eat beans or pasta every day. As I'm sure you do too. And there's NOTHING optimistic I can say to you with a straight face. Nothing at all. If you find someone who's putting together an activist socialist party, pm me and I'll be very interested indeed. Those disgusting right wing bastards just want to cut us loose and watch us drown. And, believe it or not, many of them (as you well know) consider themselves CHRISTIANS!!!
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