Comments on: Beyond Unemployment, the Damage Resonates

By: davidbaer

davidbaer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:56:27 +0000

What I like about small business owners is that they are not afraid to take huge risks and lay it all on the line. But, I agree they do need a lot of help with their marketing. I think having them go the social media and email route is not only the least expensive but its also the most effective. Thanks for the stats!
With Facebook and Twitter being among the leaders of the Social networks, marketing as a small business is being transformed..
Respondents according to the Vertical Response survey appear to need some differentiation with the use of SE marketing and Social media Marketing

By: socalnewswatcher

socalnewswatcher — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:23:43 +0000

I was laid off 1 1/2 years ago. I look for work every weekday (VERY depressing as there just aren’t jobs to apply for). I am on unemployment. Just began my first extension. Just lost my COBRA health care benefit. How in the world am I supposed to afford individual health care??? Even minimal coverage costs even more than the COBRA did! I had investments, which I lost when the market tanked. I had a year’s worth of savings. It is now gone. Unemployment doesn’t even cover my mortgage (my mortgage alone – never mind taxes, which keep coming and all of the other expenses of life). I have diabetes and asthma. Even if I could afford it, if I try to change carriers these illnesses won’t be covered – “pre existing condition”. I am also being treated for extreme depression and extreme stress. I get so angry I can barely stand it when I hear Republicans (used to be…) blocking Health Care Reform or Mortgage/Foreclosure Protection Act just so they can “get Obama”!!! They obviously couldn’t care less for all of us out there struggling and sinking!!!!

By: Pat Van Cleaf

Pat Van Cleaf — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:08:59 +0000

Why is the Senate debating about giving raises to their staffers? Why aren’t their salaries frozen…why do they get raises and I can’t get a job in 15 months of being laid off and now my unemployment has run out…thank you Congress for not extending benefits because your staffers need a raise.
I previously lived in the Washington DC area, have worked all of my adult life, paid my bills and my taxes, owned my own home, supported myself. I recently was forced to rent out my house, move to Texas to live in a room in a my son’s house and try to find work here. The competition is just too great, I’m a secretary and can’t get a decent paying job. I have no health insurance and if I get sick or injured, I’ll be a burden to my family or to society. This whole situation is just ridiculous, all for some greedy people in the government, banking industry, etc. all who get raises or bail-outs, and the middle class gets eradicated.

By: Viola C Parsons-Sturdivant

Viola C Parsons-Sturdivant — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:39:00 +0000

The economy and unemployment will completely turn-a-round when it appears that the games in Washing has stopped. When you have groups calling for the POTUS to fail, everything slows down. Also, making the U.S. look like a bunch of idiots live here does not help at all. If he fails, everyone fails, especially the middle class!

By: Brendett NC

Brendett NC — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:55:56 +0000

PUT THE GOLD STANDARD AND MANUFACTURING PLANTS BACK IN PLACE FOR THE U.S.A.!
AND WE WILL TURN THE UNTIED STATES AROUND FROM THIS RECESSION!

By: Brendett NC

Brendett NC — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:43:42 +0000

The reason there is NO JOB’S in the U.S.A. most of the manufacturing plant have been out source to other countries for cheep labor!!!! shame on the CEO’S of these manufacturing plant !
“Our government let this happen to the working class people of the U.S.A. “!
USA DON’T MAKE ANYTHING ANYMORE!!!
YOU CANT FIND LABELS ON ANYTHING YOU BUY STAMP WITH THE USA LOGO ON IT IN WAL-MART, KMART OR THE MALL’S!
BRING BACK THE MANUFACTURING PLANTS and you will put the America people back to work!
We the U.S.A. use to be a self sufficient country of economic consumption
not no more it was removed from our hands.
U.S.A. WAS “the country’s largest manufacturer” ITS GONE NOW !
“BAN THE OUT SOURCED MANUFACTURING PLANTS FROM SELLING THERE PRODUCTS
BACK TO THE U.S.A” TEACH THEM A LESSON FOR MOVING THERE PLANTS OUT OF THE U.S.A.!

By: Barry W. Shook

Barry W. Shook — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:51:23 +0000

Ted Jonston hit the nail on the head with his comments. We need to be producing IN THIS COUNTRY–not even Canada or Mexico. “Made in the real USA”, not some north american continent area. That’s the only way we’re going to dig ourselves out of this mess–that and more effective regulation of banks and investments.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:02:47 +0000

To fix the economy you have to stimulate small business. Something this administration knows nothing about. Government jobs only last as long as the grant funds are available and do not last beyond that, with no long term benefit to the economy. Instead of making demons of small business owners they might actually consult them on what is needed to improve the economy.

By: catman

catman — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:59:24 +0000

very sad. we need to have this administartion and congress focus on reality. no more cap and trade and other hocus pocus. we need jobs and not government jobs. we need tax credits to the private sector for people they hire. this socialism attempt is failing miserably as it always does.

By: Paul Kruger

Paul Kruger — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:48:33 +0000

I am in foreclosure and had to hire a bankruptcy attorney. All too common today to be worth a mention.
I survive because I work at home in a small business. It barely pays the bills and is declining.
I have experience in construction and as an electrician and handy man service is in demand as people fix and make do when they can’t buy new.
Here’s the catch. I have arthritis that restricts my ability to walk and stand. It could be fixed, allowing me to earn more money, and could have prevented foreclosure and bankruptcy. But I don’t have health insurance and can’t get it due to pre-existing conditions, even if I could afford the premiums.
Classic Catch 22. I could work, if I could walk. I can’t get my hip fixed because I can’t afford the surgery. I can’t afford the surgery due to lack of income…and around we go.
How many others are stuck is this cycle?