I Don't Normally Write Political-Type Thingies But...

[fenderlove]

I resent politicians telling me that I'm lazy or spoiled because I am currently unemployed. I resent being told that, because I am unemployed, that if I got unemployment benefits that I would spend the money on drugs. I resent being called a "hobo." I, for some reason, didn't qualify for unemployment benefits despite having paid money out of my paychecks into those benefits (I am aware of a few factors for why I didn't get my benefits, but I never received a definite answer for why I didn't get them when I first lost my job). I've put in over 500 applications for jobs in the past nine months and gone on several interviews, but apparently that just makes me a lazy person. There are over 5 applicants per every job available in this country today. Are the politicians just really that out-of-touch with the everyday person out there just trying to make a living? I even moved to another state for a period of time to look for work during which time I held a job for a short period of time. Now I'm doing freelance graphic design work again, but there's no way I could support myself on what I'm currently making. I am not lazy. I am not a hobo. I'm not a drug addict. I am not stray animal. I am not a mooch on the system. I just want what I paid for, and I want to be treated like a human being.

And just to add, for the past two months, my mom has been paying my student loans. It's the one thing I never wanted to have happen. I already feel like a huge failure because of this, and to be told that it's basically my fault for trying to get an education and better my chances of getting a job (chances that turned out to be slim and nil under the best situations apparently) makes me feel even worse. Mom wants me to go back to school to get my Ph.D. and has agreed to help me until I can get through school. However, I am going to have to get even more loans, and I just have the fear that no amount of betterment is going to make me any more hirable. I have no idea how a Ph.D. will benefit me at this point, but it's my only choice at the moment if I need my mom to continue helping me. *crawls under a rock*

Comments

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I know how you feel, dear. I know.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I'm really starting to feel like Buffy lately. Only I think that Sunnydale probably has lots of job openings what with the constant deaths and all.

[norwie2010.livejournal.com]

Don't let rats drag You down. Politicans know exactly what - and why - they're doing when dissing people like You. We live in a system where the individual is less able to change his/her way in this world than in the past, the permeability of economic and social standing is at an all time low (in the western world).

It is the old "divide et impere", to set the less fortunate against the even lesser fortunate (instead of against the profiteers of the system).

So, don't let Yourself drag down. I have seen some of Your work and while i'm not a professional i really like what You do, i'm sure You are a wonderful and gifted person. Don't let anybody tell You otherwise.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Thank you. *hugs*

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Politicians will say anything - anything to get your vote. And they mean none of what they say, look how often campaign promises get kept.

:: hugs ::

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Indeed, it just makes me sad that there are people out there who believe that those who are in my same situation are somehow horrible monsters for asking for unemployment benefits, which we paid for through by funding unemployment insurance at our jobs. :(

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

God it seems like your government and mine are sharing but one mind right now. It was the bloody greed and stupidly of the banks that got all of us into this mess, and now the poor and sick have to suffer for it.

Don't feel bad, Political arses just want a quick scapegoat thats all. *hugs*

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

It's getting really ridiculous. They keep trying to extend unemployment benefits until the new financial reform gets put to a vote, but there's a certain contingent of politicians who keep beating it back. One elected official even voted no to the extension because he was angry that the vote interrupted him being able to see his favourite team play basketball! What a load of crap!

We've also got this woman running for election in Nevada named Sharon Angle who says that the "jobs are out there" and that the American people are just "spoiled" and won't take the jobs because they can live "quite comfortably" on the unemployment benefits alone. Well, I don't know what it's like in her head, but I do know that where I live that's so whole-heartedly untrue, especially since unemployment benefits don't last forever and you still have to prove that you are actively looking for work. There are always going to be people who abuse the system, but punishing everyone isn't the way to solve anything!

Gah, I hate politics! >_<;;;

[liliaeth]

I totally agree.

It's not like it's currently an easy time to try and find a job, hell even temp offices have a hard time finding jobs these days.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I just really want a job. I want to work! If these politicians who are claiming that the jobs are out there would point me in the direction of a job I could have and work full-time at a reasonable salary that meets the average cost of living, I would whole-heartedly take it!

[evenstar-estel.livejournal.com]

Nugde over, I need a spot in your boat. After eight years of very loyal service to my job I've being forced out. Friday's my last day and after that I've got no job, no benefits, nada. I won't qualify for unemployment either. At least you've got youth and education on your side! As far as the politicians go - they haven't a clue. They're employed!

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

*hugs you tight* I'm sorry about your job. That's just awful.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna get profane. I'm warning you.








Fucking Tea Partiers. I blame them and Palin for all this horseshit.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Get profane in the membrane! I'm right there with you.

I also blame Tea Partiers for the cult of the anti-intellectualism in this country, i.e. trying to sow seeds of distrust towards anyone with higher education and trying to convince people that going to university is unnecessary by politicians who have one if not more COLLEGE DEGREES! ARGH! It hurts the brain!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

And yet, research shows that most of them HAVE degrees and want their kids to have them. It's a paradox. They only trust education *they* had.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It's strange and frightening since I'm fairly certain that the textbooks I had in high school were the same ones "they" had. *facepalm* at the under-funded Southern education system. Oh, wait, I take that back. We are well-funded, but all the funding goes towards fancy computers with specialized video games to make the kids "learn" *cough*memorize-the-pictures-to-the-answers-without-actually-taking-in-any-knowledge-from-it*cough* and the football teams instead of unimportant things like edible food and textbooks that don't refer to the Civil Rights Movement as "troubles ahead." *steals a Family Guy line*

[thedabara-cds.livejournal.com]

We're in the same boat too. My hubby is also out of work since the company he worked for went belly up 9 months ago. He's almost 50 so that's another strike against him. We're just damn lucky that I still have a job. *hugs*

How anyone can say such things about the unemployed and still think of themselves as *fingerquotes* Good Christians *fingerquotes* just boggles my mind.