Do you work a salaried position and had an awful time in an awful work environment in this economy? Are you working many more hours with much less pay? I want to hear your story. See my blog above on the sad job market. I would love to hear your story and on how you think the job market could be improved.

White collar and blue collar workers are working longer hours with much less pay. I would love to hear your experience on this issue.

Please post a comment - no e-mail required. Salaried positions are sucking the life out of people with much more work and no overtime pay.

Thanks!

You definitely will need a lot more posts to attract readers and establish yourself as a credible source. There are tons of political blogs out there...tons of any kinds of blogs I guess, so you will need to spend a lot of time writing a lot of content to get noticed.

I'll follow you though to keep up with your progress.

Publish 10 or so before you ask for feedback.

As far as your post goes, stop talking about "Politifact" in the third person. If it's your opinion, say so. Also, work on developing a point-of-view all your own. More established sites already give awards like "Lie of the Year". NPR has a show featuring political quotes each week that are judged by a panel on a continuum between truth/weasel/pants on fire. You would have more impact by just drawing a line in the sand and taking off the gloves. Politics is a big show, especially once the primaries begin as they have now. Be entertaining. Good luck!

Comments highly encouraged!

If you read what economists are saying, it's if they are just throwing darts at a dart board! How bad can it really get? I've heard of family members that are stocking up on food and gas. Is it really that serious in your opinion?

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I personally think there are ex-Enron accountants evaluating the economic numbers for our country and that it is pure propaganda. What's your opinion? Are we really in an economic recovery or not?

“In the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/] Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey" is set in the Deep South [USA] during the 1930's. In it, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. Everrett Ullysus McGill, sick of breaking rocks in the heat of a Mississippi summer, escapes with his two dim accomplices, Delmar and Pete.”

In one scene after their escape a musician is encountered at a crossroads in the middle of nowhere. An ensuing conversation between escaped convicts and the Negro musician revels that the man sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for teaching him to play the guitar. When asked why he would do such a thing, he replied, “I wasn’t using it.” Mystified the convicts were faced with a formidable dilemma.

Similarly, have you heard the one about the Latvian at the fork in the road? Which way does he go? The answer is: both! There is some cross-over between the two black jokes, but the answer is the same.

Latvia is at the crossroads too, which may easily be alluded to as a fork in the road. The EU stands on one side and the Russian Federation on the other. Long a “transit state” occasionally occupied by the East and then the West, Latvia has alternately re-created itself as the “Switzerland of the Baltics” where Riga is known as “Little Prague” or “Little Paris” for its architectural splendor.

Latvians took advantage of the credit circumstances that helped create the Great Recession and then let the EU / IMF and others bail them out. Of course austerity measures led to wide scale unemployment of the easily replaceable working class and served to reverse an earlier trend and drain the city of its proletariat.

This freed up many a living space, kept the previous owners in debt away from their claims through displacement. It also solidly placed much real estate in the hands of the reluctant and clearly unwilling banking institutions.

With real estate available at such an affordable price led the wealthy who had been sitting on their bags of money to see an opportunity to reinvest and keep skilled workers employed reconditioning and renovating many an abandoned living space.

To keep building in the face of darkness seemed ludicrous top many and was welcomed by many to keep the city alive for the eyes of many a visiting tourist. To make even more luxury apartments seemed ridiculous in the face of not knowing why it was being done.

To keep the Lat tied to the Euro and prices high was a wait-and-see game of who shall survive. The current move to offer Russians residency permits in exchange for a mere $35,000 in the bank would welcome them through the back door to the EU. Why should Finland be the only one to benefit from the issuance of Schengen visas?

Under this, it seems a simple way to bail the country out while ridding the ship of rats and establishing Riga to its rightful claim as the Switzerland of the Baltics.” Riga, AKA “Little Prague” or “Little Paris” will soon rise from the ashes as a haven for the rich and powerful. But who can even suggest such a thing?

This is a short, but technical blog recapping the job deficit. For anyone interested, I'd love feedback.

Thanks in advance,
Midi Pour

http://winditdown.wordpress.com/

I was not much affected by the crash, as I was a student living overseas on a scholarship last year... So it didn't affect my already meager financial situation.

You think we have it bad? If anyone here remembers what happened to iceland last year, let me tell you that it was as bad as it looked. My wealthy icelandic friend's spending habits went from "buying everything" to eating the cheapest meals possible every day.

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