I heard a saying once: "It's a recession when other people are getting laid off. It's a depression when YOU get laid off."
It's unbelievable how cruel our "capitalist" economy is. It grinds human beings down like so many cows into hamburger meat. It takes honest, hard working people and makes them question their own worth, since they "can't find a job" even though they are physically able and quite willing to work.
In a sane society, a man who isn't lazy shouldn't have to worry about going hungry. But not in the modern world...
Matthew
Thank you for saying this...
I rant and rave about this all the time, nobody seems to get it, or care. I think it's profoundly wrong and unjust, but others seem to shrug.
My (protestant) family doesn't get that the jobs they had, and are retired from (union jobs, pensions, healthcare, stability, high school education) are gone.
They don't get why my cousins are all unemployed and getting foreclosed upon. I'm the only one, praise be to God, that hasn't yet-- not to say that my job is secure, it isn't, but I've managed to stay working (again, praise be to God!).
They don't understand that my cousins moving back in with their parents are not lazy-- they really aren't. One of them is a very, very hardworking guy, but there was no metalwork or welding with every plant in the county relocating to Mexico. There went the house, etc.
It's infuriating, because I see good people having a horrible time of it. I get mad because I have a baby and I wonder what on earth she has to look forward to -- it's going to get worse, I doubt better. :sign-surrender: