I'm turning over a new leaf - Hope!

I have been in such a funk over the past two years. It's time to shake it off. I've been down and saddened at the state the America is in. I want live in a country where

Hope
Peace
Love
Community
Friends
Family

is what really matters.


I am so lucky right now when so many are down. I have a good job. I just moved into a nice little home above beautiful a small WIsconsin downtown. I'm active in our local UU congregation. I have a artist wife and a teen daughter who skateboards,snowboards and plays the chello and violin.She is a sweet loving, caring young person. And my wife is a strong, caring and creative woman.

It is so easy to forget all the good things that happened during the 90's that enabled me to so far survive Bush's disasterous Presidency. I set myself with the skills needed to ensure I can stay employed during a time when so many are losing their jobs and careers. I was able to do this because of the vitality and expansion of the ninties.

I am finding hope for the future. Bush is very bad for America and over the past few months I have come to realize that America will ultimately discover this fact too. Even those right-wing nuts will.

I have hope in the future in knowing that Bush will forever be known as the worst President in U.S. history. Already historians and making comparisons and are finding it difficult to find a administration that can come close to the deception, chicanery and outright lies that this administration has done.

I have hope too because I have family and friends and a community that love and care for me. And that is the most important thing to have. To hell with George W. Bush.

I am proud to be a liberal democrat. I am proud to stand behind liberal values and I an not going hesitate to ask people during this next election cycle can you really continue to support the policies of this president that has caused such harm to so many.

to your local paper. It will do so much good there!

thanks for sharing

:hi:

One on the FCC ownership issues and the other in response to a right wing columnist who slammed Sen. Fiengold. I challenged him with "Where are the weapons?"

Funny how the local neocns on talk radio are suddenly more concerned about local budgets and politics and now rarely mention Iraq, Bush, national income tax cuts anymore...

I have also been published on Common Dreams.org and right here on Good old DU front page.

I am about ready to drop this LeftHander handle and go with my own name. I figure why not? If someone has a beef with anything I saw here they can look me up and come to my house and tell me in person. I'll give them a "Where are the weapons?" sign for their car window.

First, thanks for your inspiring thoughts. Much needeed in these times.

You said, "I set myself with the skills needed to ensure I can stay employed during a time when so many are losing their jobs and careers."

If I might ask, what skills are those?

Thanks

my brother, sister, and mother all got laid off over the past few months. My brother and sister are very smart, very skilled IT workers in CA. My mother is a smart and skilled speech pathologist.

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Computer Technology - Specifically Oracle database administration I was in consulting both for a firm and as an independent contractor. Many companies will farm out programming overeas but the database is the heart and soul of a company and they will ussually keep this in house (or in country).

I was contracting for the past two years with keeping an eye open for perm opportunities.

No question about it has been rough the past two years. Two months off three months on....but still managed to pay bills and stay away from those nasty credit cards...(I don't have any...wife and I tore them up ten years ago)

that all these unemployed people are just lacking skills...

I never said my job was secure....like everyone else my luck could run out.

Having the ability to survive is not a "repub" idea. And it was the 90's economic expansion that enabled the people who I worked for to spent thousands of dollars training me in a specialized skill. if it was'nt for that I would probably be homeless or dead now. Forget about any IT training now. Companies are too strapped.

(I had to take a part time bartending job last summer to make ends meet while I was between contract jobs)


No question about it. Everyday I think of what I need to do if my job is not there tomorrow (it could happen) and run through scenarios of scrounging up work.

Bush and the neocons have screwed a lot of people out of good jobs. The focus of the messege was to try an keep positive.

BTW - My income went down 80% from 2001 to 2002. I am no longer self-employed. I am at 50% reduction in what I was making and basically at the same level as in 1997. And I am still sitting on a huge tax bill that Bush's tax cuts did nothing to help. So don't tell me I am promoting repug ideas. There ideas nearly put me in the street if I hadn't been fortunate. (one of the few times in my life I've been lucky)

Don't slam me for trying to be optimistic in these shitty times.

I am not slamming you. I encouraged you to send this as a letter to the editor. But this statement:

"I set myself with the skills needed to ensure I can stay employed during a time when so many are losing their jobs and careers."

can be interpreted to mean that people who have lost their jobs in this economy did not set themselves up with the skills they needed to stay employed. I'm not saying that's what you meant, only that it could be interpreted that way.

It could be taken that way and it is far from reality...there are certainly many very skilled and talented people who are not working because the companies no longer exist or had to "rightsize" due to the depressed economy.

I saw this other thread that had a comment from W that I have'nt heard before...

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Have a good weekend....