Hey Barack, Stimulate Us!
Hey Barack, stimulate us!
My wife and I would each like one of those 3 million jobs that you’re creating this week with the Stimulus Bill. Both of us are out of work and we need to have jobs so that we can continue to support our family. Please put us on the list.
We actually have lost 4 good jobs in this recession. Early in 2008 the steel company that both my wife and I worked for went out of business. We know; we know… all eggs, one basket. But we managed the end so well.
We were proactive, and as soon as we sensed the end coming, we vigorously threw ourselves into a job search. Our old company had two cross-town competitors who stood to benefit from our company’s demise, and we worked that angle hard. My wife got a job at one, and I went to the other. Whew! We had a double-barreled economic shotgun pointed directly at us and, together, we ducked both blasts.
What is particularly galling is that we did exactly the right thing. Instead of placidly going down with the ship with our old compadres in the end-of-days wind-down of our old company as Nearer My God To Thee played in the background, my wife and I worked the phones and the internet and networked as if our lives depended on it.
And after all that, the world ended. Her new company had three quick rounds of layoffs and she was given her pink slip the last day before Christmas. I lost my new job three weeks later in my new company’s first-ever corporate layoff. Just like that, our home economy went from comfortable to crisis to catastrophe
So, here we are - downed by the echo of a months-old shotgun blast. We’re living on unemployment, and we are looking for jobs. This time my wife and I don’t have any good ideas.
Barack, my family applied for food stamps and free school lunches for our children the day that you were inaugurated. I keep hearing from our elected officials how things are going to get worse before they get better and I wonder what worse really means for my family.
So Barack, my family needs just two small favors out of the 3-million about to be granted. Please put both my wife and I on the list for just two of those jobs. We’re out of ideas and we’re running out of cash.
John Galish
Brunswick, OH
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