| Most Americans are feeling the impact of high | | | | Depression. Unfortunately, we now no longer have |
| unemployment in some manner. It's not just | | | | any industrial base to help pull us out of our |
| parents, but it's also teenagers and young adults | | | | financial crisis. We have become a society of |
| that are struggling with the inability to find | | | | consumers, but with no job, there is no money |
| employment. While many in Washington deny that | | | | and no credit to continue our consumption of non |
| we are in a recession, most Americans come | | | | necessities. A roof over our heads and food in |
| face to face with it on a daily basis. It has been | | | | our stomachs must come first. |
| and continues to be a fact of life. We are also | | | | Americans of all ages are looking to Washington |
| facing inflation, something that neither Washington | | | | for answers, with little to no hope. Our young |
| or main stream media talk about. | | | | people are ill-equipped to face this financial |
| Families are struggling to make ends meet and | | | | dilemma. Most of them have never had to do |
| unemployment insurance is only a short term fix. | | | | without the basic necessities. Most don't know |
| Many Americans have tried to reduce the amount | | | | what it is like to go to bed hungry, dirty and cold. |
| of money they spend on utilities, their grocery bill, | | | | They have grown up on McDonald's, cable |
| and money spent on entertainment or eating out. | | | | television and the internet. They don't have the |
| Many families have had to enlist the help of their | | | | coping skills necessary to work 2 and 3 jobs just |
| teenagers or young adults to help with family | | | | to get by. For that matter, many parents don't |
| finances. Unfortunately, the number of jobs | | | | have the skill set necessary to cope with the |
| available for teenagers and young adults continues | | | | current financial crisis. |
| to shrink. Summer jobs have not been has | | | | American families are in a downward spiral of |
| plentiful this year because of the current financial | | | | massive portions. With this downward spiral |
| crisis that families and employers have been | | | | comes fear, hopelessness, dis pare, anger and |
| facing. | | | | hate. Social unrest maybe around the corner and |
| Parents as well as their children are spending | | | | American families are totally unprepared for this |
| hours on the internet as well as browsing local | | | | possible event. Our children's future appears bleak |
| print ads looking for work. Potential employers are | | | | and there seems to be no hope of any change in |
| receiving resumes and applications by the dozens | | | | the near future. |
| and even hundreds of dozen for one job. | | | | Our leaders in Washington need to address this |
| Teenagers and young adults with limited to no job | | | | issue with all haste and with honesty. American |
| experience have no chance of securing | | | | families do not need to hear the "Blame Game" |
| employment in this job frenzy. | | | | anymore. They don't need to hear false job |
| Many of these individuals realize that education is | | | | creation numbers anymore. They are well aware |
| their only hope for a brighter future. But with their | | | | of how many jobs there are, where they are and |
| parent unable to pay for college tuition and no | | | | how many applicants they are up against for any |
| hope of receiving any type of financial aid, they | | | | job. Americans need their leaders to start working |
| know that they have no way out. The struggle to | | | | on their behalf, and not for the special interest |
| find and keep a job can be overwhelming to | | | | groups and foreign interests. |
| these individuals. Many have already given up any | | | | American families are under fire and many are |
| hope of finding employment. | | | | without hope. We may lose an entire generation |
| America and it's citizens are facing an economic | | | | to these desperate time. We need honest |
| meltdown, very similar to what our parents and | | | | answers and honest solutions now. |
| great grandparents faced during the Great | | | | |