A page featuring Barack Obama's recent 2-minute video about the economy invited readers to "share your story" on the economic situation. I did so, and I think it's worth sharing again here:
A little over a year ago, I was a staff accountant for a national mortgage broker, making adequate pay while the company was riding high on the housing bubble. In mid-August 2007, I learned from a newspaper headline that my company had collapsed, and arrived at work as my co-workers were walking out with their boxes of belongings. Needless to say, I lost my job as well. After a temporary position with a clothing retailer, I found myself working for a large RV dealership. But we all know what gas prices have done this past year. Who can afford to fill a $100,000 RV with diesel fuel? So that job, too, went away. Now, another temp job later, I am unemployed again, and one of my recruiters tells me that displaced CFOs in Tucson are taking lesser positions, pushing everyone else down a rung. This is a "fundamentally strong" economy? Not where I'm sitting!Everything Barack Obama is saying about the economy makes sense to me. Let's have some of that, please, because it really is the "change we need." John McCain is more likely to provide incentives for the execs from that mortgage company I was with - the millionaires who are now back in business under another name. Meanwhile, I've had a paycheck from the bankruptcy court in payment for my last two weeks of work at that company. I think it was for about $65.
See also the recent post on my main blog:
Unemployed, Dog-Loving Woman For Obama
Karen
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