need let off steam

[BigDad]

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Just don't get down .. right now , christmas season,,easy to let the affect you ..chin up , shoulders back !

[KJZ28]

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JUst dont let off steam like this guy!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64aJH2l_doY

[PYSCHOWard]

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I got laid off 3 yrs ago @ 51,but i needed a vaction hadn't had one in 10 yrs.It was exactly 21 days after, i found another job with a RAISE an enjoy it. There is work out there,you may have to look at different occupation,don't be afraid to learn a NEW Skill. It takes a different approach to looking for employment these days,alot of searching can be done right on the internet.
Massilon is not far from Akron or Canton so i'm sure you;ll find something soon. Don't hesitate to ask for help,on where to look,GOOD PAYIN Jobs won't come looking for you,you have to find Them.

[BillBallinger Sr]

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Sorry to hear of your situation.. MANY, MANY times a day this happens.. The economy is gonna tank like we have never seen it.. Our elected officials have worked REAL hard to eliminate the middle class, they have done well.. I'm not a very smart guy, but I am smart enough to see the writing on the wall, I called the housing market to do what it has done three years ago, so far I'm pretty much right. Inflation has overwhelmed us, good paying jobs continue to get sold overseas.. I'm not a pessimistic person, but I AM a realist.. You better hang on, cause the storm is coming.... :o

The Feds continue to keep Wall Street rolling w/ low interest rates, but have NO concern for main street.. While interest rates hang at the levels they are at, inflation continues to skyrocket to the point that soon the average person won't be able to eek out a living.. Mark my words... I remember the mid 80s when MANY of us were holding on by our fingernails, I worked for a very busy shop, the bottom fell out and we were wondering if we were gonna make it another week..

You and I think very much alike Eddie. This funny money party is going to have one helluva hangover. I am 47 and almost blind, disabled, and I see the whole world in big trouble. Does anyone read history any more? This 1928 all over again. Federal Mogul doesn't even make pistons here any more. I am not condemning the off shore parts, some are good, others are garbage. But we are seeing a whole generation of people who are losing the SKILLS that it takes to step up when another Pearl Harbor happens, substitute the culture of your choice, they are out there. I have worked on cars all of my life, before kindergarten. Most folks these days can't even change a tire. We as rodders have a duty to keep that part of the younger generation's brain alive at every opportunity. The jobs? I don't know what to say there. I used to make enough throwing 80-120 lb cases of beef and pork around for 12 hrs a day for 10 yrs and have my wife able to stay home with both of our kids on one income. Those days are gone gentleman, and our children are being raised in day care by Lord knows who.

Its up to us, we have to put our strength together and become the selfless society we once were. Funny money and $300,000 motor coach 401K retirees (whose 401Ks are rewarded by selling us off a piece at a time) going up and down the highway is not the way to do it.

When I go for my dirt nap, I'll be broke, and they can bury me face down so everyone can kiss my ass.

[whiplash]

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Thier saying recession, hell were in one now, I am saying were gona have another depression like in the 1920s.......I told all my Real Estate friends when they elected that piece of shit, you are gona see HELL If you vote for BUSH, now they don't say a word, just cry because homes are not selling, you know why thier is a large ammount of forclosures, let me tell you what I know......being in the the housing market for so many years, it use to be the rule, you had to have a down payment to purchase a home, the mortgage company wanted you to have a vested interest in that home so you did not walk away from the house payments, well when they started the loans, NO MONEY DOWN, I asked a mortgage friend, who is funding these No money down loans for these buyers with bad credit? He told me it was FOREIGN LENDERS out of the Arabic and Korean countries funding the loans.........They knew exactly what they were doing, now they are sitting back in those countries and laughing at our economy going in the shitter......People losing thier jobs, 80 percent of the homes that are selling are forclosures.....in our area....Gangs taking over, Murder everywhere in the streets, and you know what else, these forclosures are being bought up by foriegners on e-bay also, without even looking at the homes they are grabbing them up.......were all screwed.....My husband works at General Motors, he builds trucks, he is so pissed off, they opened a new truck plant in MEXICO, we were in a dealership to look at trucks the other day, he looked on the tags to see where the trucks were built, MEXICO, he told the salesperson, if you cannot find me a truck built in the USA, I will not buy it, we are boycotting any General motors vehicles built in Mexico, we finally found one built in Texas......when you go to buy a new car or truck, check the tags to see where it is built , do not buy the ones built in Mexico, where they are paying the workers 3 dollars an hour......

[bbnova]

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Everyone take note this is one of the few times you will see me agreeing with Eddie there is no more middle class, the day
of a good jobs are gone. $8-10 hour jobs will not raise a family.We can all thank are politcians for what they call outsourcing and how
they tell us its helping us and the american workers.I say lets out source there jobs why pay them 90 -150k year when we can get it
done for 20-25k year buy some guy name BOB in India. Dont get me wrong I love this country but is it just me or have we turned are backs on are
own people in this country.Billions being sent over seas to people that hates us and for what we all stand for.What about Joe average the guy that goes
to work everyday for 30 years plus, or maybe your partners that helped built this country,fought this country wars.It time we help the US first and all those that want to work and want to make a better live for there familys.

[Groucho]

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Well said. I love this country too. But, the politicians are killing it. We may be the LAST of the true middle class America that this country was built on

Everyone take note this is one of the few times you will see me agreeing with Eddie there is no more middle class, the day
of a good jobs are gone. $8-10 hour jobs will not raise a family.We can all thank are politcians for what they call outsourcing and how
they tell us its helping us and the american workers.I say lets out source there jobs why pay them 90 -150k year when we can get it
done for 20-25k year buy some guy name BOB in India. Dont get me wrong I love this country but is it just me or have we turned are backs on are
own people in this country.Billions being sent over seas to people that hates us and for what we all stand for.What about Joe average the guy that goes
to work everyday for 30 years plus, or maybe your partners that helped built this country,fought this country wars.It time we help the US first and all those that want to work and want to make a better live for there familys.

[pro65]

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Amen to all.

[Two Lane Blacktop]

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I live in massillon ohio .

I worked at Doctors Hospital

and would like to thank you

all for the support


chev1.

Bro,

You did the right thing by reaching out!!

I'm sure everyone here was touched by your post,
because "there but for the grace of God" could go
each & every one of us...tomorrow.

And I'd also bet each of us wish you a speedy
return to steady employment.

When you're filling out applications & going on
interviews, please take a moment to remember...
we're all pulling for you. --- Make it hap'n, Cap'n!!

[kstanbach]

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Sorry to hear of your situation.. MANY, MANY times a day this happens.. The economy is gonna tank like we have never seen it.. Our elected officials have worked REAL hard to eliminate the middle class, they have done well.. I'm not a very smart guy, but I am smart enough to see the writing on the wall, I called the housing market to do what it has done three years ago, so far I'm pretty much right. Inflation has overwhelmed us, good paying jobs continue to get sold overseas.. I'm not a pessimistic person, but I AM a realist.. You better hang on, cause the storm is coming.... :o

The Feds continue to keep Wall Street rolling w/ low interest rates, but have NO concern for main street.. While interest rates hang at the levels they are at, inflation continues to skyrocket to the point that soon the average person won't be able to eek out a living.. Mark my words... I remember the mid 80s when MANY of us were holding on by our fingernails, I worked for a very busy shop, the bottom fell out and we were wondering if we were gonna make it another week..

Wait until we have to start paying for this war. The late 70s inflation resulting from the vietnam war will pale in comparison. I'm glad I have a government job.

[std]

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Thier saying recession, hell were in one now, I am saying were gona have another depression like in the 1920s.......I told all my Real Estate friends when they elected that piece of shit, you are gona see HELL If you vote for BUSH, now they don't say a word, just cry because homes are not selling, you know why thier is a large ammount of forclosures, let me tell you what I know......being in the the housing market for so many years, it use to be the rule, you had to have a down payment to purchase a home, the mortgage company wanted you to have a vested interest in that home so you did not walk away from the house payments, well when they started the loans, NO MONEY DOWN, I asked a mortgage friend, who is funding these No money down loans for these buyers with bad credit? He told me it was FOREIGN LENDERS out of the Arabic and Korean countries funding the loans.........They knew exactly what they were doing, now they are sitting back in those countries and laughing at our economy going in the shitter......People losing thier jobs, 80 percent of the homes that are selling are forclosures.....in our area....Gangs taking over, Murder everywhere in the streets, and you know what else, these forclosures are being bought up by foriegners on e-bay also, without even looking at the homes they are grabbing them up.......were all screwed.....My husband works at General Motors, he builds trucks, he is so pissed off, they opened a new truck plant in MEXICO, we were in a dealership to look at trucks the other day, he looked on the tags to see where the trucks were built, MEXICO, he told the salesperson, if you cannot find me a truck built in the USA, I will not buy it, we are boycotting any General motors vehicles built in Mexico, we finally found one built in Texas......when you go to buy a new car or truck, check the tags to see where it is built , do not buy the ones built in Mexico, where they are paying the workers 3 dollars an hour......

Okay, to start with you're blaming the wrong president for jobs going out of the country. Don't you all remember Ross Perot talking about the big sucking sound of jobs leaving the country if NAFTA was signed? That was everybodys favorite crim#^*l, I mean president, Clinton that signed that.

You're also blaming the wrong person for the housing market. Like Eddie said, the Federal Reserve controls the interest rate not the president. They kept the interest rates so low in the 90s that the banks kept lending more and more money because people could afford it. Everyone thought the economy was so great because they could borrow whatever they wanted. That caused the price of housing to go way up. The Fed decided to slow the economy and raised rates.

Predatory lenders and the Federal Reserve combined with NAFTA to ruin housing and the economy. Sorry, but you can't blame Bush.

[Groucho]

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I don't know about that. Who's spending money like a drunken sailor in Iraq because he couldn't find Bin Laden in Afkanistan? If Bush's dad would've finished Iraq/Hussain in '91 when we already had all our money over there, jr. would almost have to keep on track finding Bin Laden instead of starting another Viet Nam in Iraq. ####ing dumbass in my opinion. But, hey, I'm just a dumb mechanic

[] Sorry, but you can't blame Bush.
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[1FastMopar]

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Before this becomes an issue of dems against rep, lets get it clear, its all about politicians, its a blame game they play to keep us off guard.. Its not any one side, they really work together for the most part to accomplish what they do.. NAFTA was created and drafted WAY before Clinton was in office, Clinton just signed it under mounting pressure.. Its all about us as citizens understanding what goes on in Washington.. Its not about the talking points, although thats what drives people to vote for one or the other.. "The dumbing of America is complete"

[std]

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I don't know about that. Who's spending money like a drunken sailor in Iraq because he couldn't find Bin Laden in Afkanistan? If Bush's dad would've finished Iraq/Hussain in '91 when we already had all our money over there, jr. would almost have to keep on track finding Bin Laden instead of starting another Viet Nam in Iraq. ####ing dumbass in my opinion. But, hey, I'm just a dumb mechanic

[] Sorry, but you can't blame Bush.

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Man, I can't even respond to that. There's just to much stuff... nevermind.

Before this becomes an issue of dems against rep, lets get it clear, its all about politicians, its a blame game they play to keep us off guard.. Its not any one side, they really work together for the most part to accomplish what they do.. NAFTA was created and drafted WAY before Clinton was in office, Clinton just signed it under mounting pressure.. Its all about us as citizens understanding what goes on in Washington.. Its not about the talking points, although thats what drives people to vote for one or the other.. "The dumbing of America is complete"

I didn't mean to make it Dem vs Rep. I was just trying to point out that there are alot of people to blame. Not just the people in office now. I think it comes down to greed and power. Give the poor just enough to keep them where they are. Take from the middle class because we bought into the American Dream and we're to busy just trying to live our lives. That leaves the rich paying the ones in power to get what they want.

[Groucho]

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I don't want to prolong this political bullshit. But, Since it's going on here, I'd like to add something. To me, it's not Rep. vs Dem. I think through the years, for the most part, they all suck the big one. That's why I don't vote. They've all seem to have some personal agenda other than helping those who elected them. #### em all, I'm done. Again, I'm a dumb mechanic. But, if officials got elected every year, instead of every 4, they'd be on their best behavior. My 2 cents. Now, back to our car program already in progress