Another day is going by slowly. We will be meeting at 3 PM this afternoon to pick a new manager for the Senior Thrift Store. We, being the Glenn County Seniors board members. And we have 7 people applying for a 20 hour a week job, no benefits and paying slightly above minimum wage. I mean slightly above. This is a position that we would have had a hard time filling four or five years ago. Sad.
And then I read some of my favorite blogs and they are filled with despair as some are losing their jobs and their homes. Sad.
Why do we persist in calling this a recession? I said at the beginning that it was a Depression and I maintain that it still is. When we look back at this time, in ten years, we will have to call it what it was; a Depression.
And for those elders who are making it through these times, a lot of them are okay simply because of the era that they were born into. Luck. A blessing. These elders had a chance for employment with union firms that paid a living wage. They had pensions and 401(k) plans. Health care plans that included dental and vision. And being born half a dozen years later made all the difference in the world as the Republicans grew government into the monster it is today. A monster that has destroyed our economy. Six years one way or the other; it doesn't seem right , does it?
Right on, brother. You're truthin' right here.
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