Comment of the Day: Too Angry to Call

By: DAVID MILLER | Monday: February 16th 2009

From Stacey Hunter in Vancouver, WA, near the end of today's stimulus show:

I am an OHSU employee. The stimulus package is too little, too late.  The damage is already done.  Those folks who were laid off are not coming back.  I suppose the package might help keep MORE jobs from being lost, but for now, my FTE was dropped from full time to .75,  and I have 8 years of seniority.   Another of my coworkers lost her job altogether. We also lost our shift differential which is like a pay cut of 1.51 per hour.  I lost $550 per month in pay and benefit dollars with this cutback.

My husband was laid off last Monday.  He worked designing and  building industrial robots in Vancouver, WA.

Between his layoff and my paycheck cutbacks, I don't know how we are going to make it.  I hope to get to a food bank today as we have no money for groceries at this point.  I never thought in a million years that at age 45, I would be struggling this hard.  Thanks for listening to me.  I would call, but I am too angry at this point.

I am more than wondering if the financial experts are bumbling around trying to control this "monster"; the world economy or if there are economists behind the scenes that have created this economic downturn on purpose for nefarious gain? I have heard lecturers call this downturn “man made”. I assumed they meant “done on purpose” as those that cite the 1910 meeting on jekyll island that formed the federal reserve which became an act in 1913, that was also done in reaction to an "economic down trun". Is dues ex machina going to come out of the woodwork and save everyone with a “new world order”

Either way, it is time to take our communities seriously, create complimentary local monetary system and become involved with community land trusts and community agriculture, good luck, perhaps I'll see you in the fields;-)

ShodyRyon —

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