Day #21 - Unemployment

Hey kids!  The sun has risen on a new day!  The sun is shining, the birds are...well, you get the idea.  I'm lovin' it.  Spring is officially spranged.

What to talk about....hmmm...Unemployment problems, yeah, that sounds like a good one.  Let's do it.

For those of you that are out there, everyday, looking for work, I applaud you.  I have good friends that are doing the same, and some, very few, aren't too successful.  Times are tough, you say?  True, true...but we all know what's going on, don't we?

If you don't, let me bring you up to speed.  First of all, they say, due to 9/11 (a little finger-pointing I have trouble accepting) our economy went into recession.  It's Osama BL's fault.  No...wait...Sadam...yeah, it was him...NO WAIT...yeah, you get the picture there as well, don't you kids?  It's never our fault, just everyone else's...and let's pick on those nasty dictators that we let run free for years...and years...and funded...and gave guns and weapons too...but now we're getting bored seeing what they'll do with 'em, so let's just blame them, bomb them, and shove democracy down their throats, while we secretly take all they have of ours..and theirs..back into our coffers.  But, as usual, I digress.  It was the fault of the 9/11 incident (yeah....sure it was.  Don't blame Enron, or AIG.  It was those damned BROWN PEOPLE!! *thanks for that joke, George C., God rest your soul).  Unemployment went through the roof.  I refer you here to the "Insurance" scam of Day #9 under this blog.  Please see, also, the post entitled "Going to work...If you're lucky."  I love unemployment, as well as unemployment insurance, it is, and always be, one of my fav subjects.

The fault, once again, and for just about every single solitary subject covered here, is the fault of our faulty government, as well as the faulty people (all of us, in case you don't get where MY finger is pointed) who faultily allow our faulty government to continue on in its faulty fashion...:D.  Wow.  Didn't quite see myself as getting all the way through that last sentence.  Yeeeeeesh.  Here's the deal though, it's all just going to get a lot worse, never better.

It's all about the poor and the rich.  Robotics are coming into play once again, and with fervor.  Robotic Semis, trucks and cars are being tested and implemented on our roads, which will in effect eliminate all driving positions currently in force.  And with the machination of the driving industry, the Truck Stop will be a distant memory.  Drones will soon replace all transportation in the air and in our seas and oceans, putting those people out of work.  Think those automated phone menus are bad?  Enter the completely automated customer service industry, putting millions of customer service related jobs in jeopardy.  Yes, these systems are tested fully as we speak...on our seniors.  Even those wonderful jobs in India will be history.  Baggers, checkers, small talk makers?  The unmanned check out aisles increase in size daily, and those run by cash handlers are goin' bye-bye.  Guarantee there aren't many drawer shortages in those aisles.  You think unemployment is bad now?  Hang on to your seats kids, it's gonna be a white knuckle ride.

I've just blathered on concerning this subject and all the subjects linked to it, and am not yet even started on the V letter for today (ya, this one's a little late...WHAT OF IT????), I'm gonna stop right here, and call this the shortest post in the series.  Oh, but you KNOW I'll be back for yet ANOTHER round of our sins and, either how we can ultimately repair them, or how we're gonna end up paying for them...depends on much.

I love ya, folkses.  Please continue to return.  You are, quite simply, makin' me a happy camper.  Cheers!!  Here's to ya!