No jobs and no money for food.

I can not picture 5.2 TONS of food.

Norm

You are correct. Adapt and Improvise. At 50 options are few. The older we get, the harder the Employer looks at you. Truthfully I did research to find out that the Medical Field and Anything Computer are excellent fields to make a career. If I were not so old I would go to college. Does your daughter work in a hospital, Doctor’s Office or……. From the looks of my textbooks and workbooks this will not be a cake walk. I have not been to school in over 30 years. I do have some fear.

One of my daughters works in medical billing. You are right, the medical industry is the way to go.

In this economy you cannot just think you will be able to get a job, you have to improvise and adapt!

Norm

Norm: I think you have done a great job with this Blog. I love it. Yes, things are scary. A person just doesn’t know what to do. So many people are looking for new lines of employment. I have just started a course for Medical Billing & Collections. I figure the medical field is a win only situation. I am hoping that it is…!!! I have to change my line of work…. or live under Interstate 95 in a box.

It is scary.

By the way, on this new system, you can reply to a specific commenter like I am doing now, and it will make a separate thread.

To the writer — I wasn’t trying to be critical or to pass judgment upon you as a writer; I’m sure you did your legwork. I enjoyed the article very much, and was only confused on one or two points.

My memory is possibly fallible as well — I only know what I remember of the US shoe factory, and I could have sworn that it was around at a time when I could have actual memories of it — and I was born in 1984.

I suppose that it might have become an outlet only, but at my young age, I was under the impression of there being workers there. I clearly remember when it became an outlet for Esprit shoes though. *shudder*

Norm

Norm

Point being; we can go round and round and round and never agree on anything when it comes to politics.

One thing for sure, I would be very worried if the same bunch that has been running the place for 8 years were to come back in.

Norm

Our nation got into the mess it is in long before Obama took office, under the governance of a certain political party. Hell the last thing I would want to do is give it right back to them to screw up more.

At least give someone else a chance to fix things. The way I see it, both parties are screwed up, one is just more screwed up than the other. At least one cares about ordinary folks like you and me.

Norm

That is the thing about this bill, if you lose your job, thank god, you will still be able to have medical insurance. I would have wished that there was a public option for all, but there is not. If you lose your job you will have to get insurance through medicaid. Right now people who lose their jobs don’t have squat, except maybe go to a free clinic or wait until it gets so bad that they go to the ER, in which case the tax payers get stuck with the tab anyway.

What blows me away about the politics of the bill is that some people are against it simply because Obama championed it, even though it will help them or their own families.

It could be a dismal failure, but at least someone tried.

Norm

Norm

The real issue here is that we have all been getting screwed by health care insurance companies for years. Big medicine in this country is killing us. Doctors salaries and health care costs have been going through the roof for years irregardless of the how much our salaries have gone up. Doctors in this country live like movie stars; big mansions, expensive cars, etc. I will say it because it is true.

Unfortunately we need to reign them in a bit and train more doctors. This is a national crisis. If the average doctor salary is $330k, with average increases of 30k plus a year, how do we sustain that as a nation.

If anything part of our national crises has people losing their jobs and their health insurance. Those who have no insurance are covered by the rest of us through taxes and deficit spending.

I do not see how anyone who is struggling to find a job would not want to have health insurance for their family. Furthermore, I cannot see how anyone who has ever been unemployed or who has been denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, or who has been cut off by insurance company bureaucrats because they got sick, would be against health care reform.

If we as a nation can invent the nuclear bomb, send a man to the moon, pay billions of dollars for a protracted war in Iraq and Afghanistan, then turn around and borrow money from the Chinese to rebuild these nations, the least we can do is give our own people security through health insurance and reform.

Sandie we disagree on this point. I do not follow political party lines on issues like this. My own family has been screwed over by health insurance companies, members of my own family cannot get an individual policy because of pre-existing conditions. I know a woman who died of breast cancer because she did not have health insurance. I do not see any viable argument against Health Care reform unless you are supporting the Health Care industries maintaining of billions of dollars of profit per year and their present practices.

Just because a certain political party tells you to not support something, does not mean that you should believe them. Hell these are the same guys who got us into this depression. They do not do squat except support big business every which way they turn.

Anyway enough of my rants for now. Time to go on my trip!

Norm