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Jun 22, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

When even fast-food restaurants aren't hiring, unemployed teens finding summer stimulus jobs

Full story: The CW Washington, WDCW-TV

You know the economy's bad when teens can't get summer jobs at fast-food restaurants or movie theaters.

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Forget teens. What about us unemployed over 40 people? I've been to every store, every craft store and every other place that I think I can be a good worker to no avail. Help! I need a jOb@
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Blogger wrote:
Forget teens. What about us unemployed over 40 people? I've been to every store, every craft store and every other place that I think I can be a good worker to no avail. Help! I need a jOb@
When they can hire cute rate labor at $5 an hour do we stand a chance?
And it will be our tax dollars that subsidize these companys.
THE HIGH COST OF CHEAP TOMATOES!!!!!!

•$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year.
•$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

•$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
aliens.•$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word
of English!
•$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

•$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

• 30% of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
•$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.

•$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens.• The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's
two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In
particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional
crime problem in the United States.
During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal
aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs,
cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from
the Southern border. Homeland Security Report:• The National Policy Institute "estimated that the total cost of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an
average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five
year period."
In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back
to their countries of origin
Anita Break

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Forget teens. What about us unemployed over 40 people? I've been to every store, every craft store and every other place that I think I can be a good worker to no avail. Help! I need a jOb@
It's hard. I know three men that were over the road truckers for years. They were constantly be undercut by mexican drivers. One is doing handy man work, one on a construction crew and the third is starting his own business. All still making a fraction of what they were making before.
Do you have any skills,computer,sewing,woodwor king,etc?
Many are selling their wares on ebay.
I also know a couple that both worked at a paper mill that got downsized. They startd driving bus for the local school district. I guess illegals still can't do that here anyway.
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Blogger wrote:
Forget teens. What about us unemployed over 40 people? I've been to every store, every craft store and every other place that I think I can be a good worker to no avail. Help! I need a jOb@
Are you in Canada?
We have dear family friends in Bruce Mines, Ont.
Best luck on your job search!
tom

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Anita Break wrote:
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When they can hire cute rate labor at $5 an hour do we stand a chance?
And it will be our tax dollars that subsidize these companys.
THE HIGH COST OF CHEAP TOMATOES!!!!!!
•$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year.
•$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
•$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
aliens.•$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word
of English!
•$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
•$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
• 30% of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
•$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.
•$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens.• The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's
two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In
particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional
crime problem in the United States.
During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal
aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs,
cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from
the Southern border. Homeland Security Report:• The National Policy Institute "estimated that the total cost of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an
average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five
year period."
In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back
to their countries of origin
Unfortunately, this is not going to change. You are right, monies aren't being spent here, they go to another country. Our current gov. isn't going to change a thing, we have to grin and bear it.
frank

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Jun 23, 2009
 
you better learn to cook beans,corn bread and potatoes.what a shock thats going to be to the big mac whopper babys.

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Jun 24, 2009
 
One of our local news channels advertises companies that are hiring. Last night's list included Target, The Container Store, and Publix.

My neighbor, who lost her well-paying job at a car dealership several months ago, hasn't been able to find a comparable job anywhere. She said she'll have to go to Target - at 7.00 an hour.
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Jun 24, 2009
 
Ryan and Del-Rae, don't worry. You are making more money at your current jobs than at a movie theater or fast food anyway, and will have better skills to put on your resumes in the future.
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Blogger wrote:
Forget teens. What about us unemployed over 40 people? I've been to every store, every craft store and every other place that I think I can be a good worker to no avail. Help! I need a jOb@
Maybe you should've gone to college. Teens need jobs now a days to help them learn to be independent, to teach them to have a good work ethic. If you went to college, it would've been a lot easier for you to get a job. Don't punish teens for your pathetic life.
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Forget teens. What about us unemployed over 40 people? I've been to every store, every craft store and every other place that I think I can be a good worker to no avail. Help! I need a jOb@
WELL I JUST HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT TEENS MATTER TOO I AM A TEENAGER AND I CAN NOT FIND A JOB JUST FOR THE SUMMER. I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULD BE UPSET BUT I HAVE NEVER WORKED ANYWHERE AND NOW THAT I CAN NO ONE WILL HIRE. SORRY YOU CANT GET A JOB BUT NIETHER CAN WE AS TEENS.
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They should fire most of the lazy marble mouth tools they have working in these places now! Start again, it would be hard to do worse.
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Anita Break wrote:
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When they can hire cute rate labor at $5 an hour do we stand a chance?
And it will be our tax dollars that subsidize these companys.
THE HIGH COST OF CHEAP TOMATOES!!!!!!
•$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year.
•$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
•$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
aliens.•$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word
of English!
•$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
•$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
• 30% of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
•$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.
•$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens.• The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's
two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In
particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional
crime problem in the United States.
During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal
aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs,
cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from
the Southern border. Homeland Security Report:• The National Policy Institute "estimated that the total cost of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an
average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five
year period."
In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back
to their countries of origin
Listen your ass needs to stop complaining and actually try to get a job.Idk who the hell you think you are blaming it all on the mexicans.Man people like you make the USA look so damn racist.All you white people think you're better than everyone else just cause your white. Well i'm light skinned too sweetheart but you dont see me being so ignorant. If the white people are so good than why the hell did a white guy (george bush) put us in this deep problem. Stop being so damn racist cause the USA is all mixed and FYI mexicans owned this land way before the white people took over. Blacks, indians, asians and other races have fought to come to this country and idk how white people take all the credit.
Think That Through!
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UNEMPLOYED TEEN wrote:
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WELL I JUST HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT TEENS MATTER TOO I AM A TEENAGER AND I CAN NOT FIND A JOB JUST FOR THE SUMMER. I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULD BE UPSET BUT I HAVE NEVER WORKED ANYWHERE AND NOW THAT I CAN NO ONE WILL HIRE. SORRY YOU CANT GET A JOB BUT NIETHER CAN WE AS TEENS.
sounds like a summer school class of basic grammar would do you more good than flipping burgers.
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I understand why older people would be upset about something like this, cause I know you have bills and payments to take care of, unlike us, however, I would like to go to college, and that is a very expensive education.

I've been looking for three years, applying everywhere, and I still can't find a job for the life of me, and I'm 17. I'm actually afraid I will never be able to find a job. I have no experience. The older I get, the more and more pathetic my applications will seem, and then I can't go to college. What then? I can't expect my parents to take care of me their whole life, they can barely save up for their retirement right now.

Teens are at the bottom of the workforce foodchain, we NEED help! We have nothing to lean back on, nothing to tell employers at an interview to make them believe that we would be a good addition to their team. Then when we grow up, and have no college, no money, and no knowledge of economics, talk about a pathetic working class. America's gotta take care of its young so it can take care of you.

Every day I can't find a job (and I look every day) I get more discouraged. I just want to work, and at this point, I'm willing to work anywhere. But older people with more experience are taking the only jobs we possibly could've gotten. So don't complain about "them lazy young people these days" cause there's nothing we can do!
Unemployed Teen

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harry paratestes wrote:
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sounds like a summer school class of basic grammar would do you more good than flipping burgers.
I guess you don't have a facebook. His/Her grammar is actually pretty good for a teenager these days, despite it being in Caps.
By the way I know you don't have a facebook, that was a joke.
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another unemployed teen wrote:
I understand why older people would be upset about something like this, cause I know you have bills and payments to take care of, unlike us, however, I would like to go to college, and that is a very expensive education.
I've been looking for three years, applying everywhere, and I still can't find a job for the life of me, and I'm 17. I'm actually afraid I will never be able to find a job. I have no experience. The older I get, the more and more pathetic my applications will seem, and then I can't go to college. What then? I can't expect my parents to take care of me their whole life, they can barely save up for their retirement right now.
Teens are at the bottom of the workforce foodchain, we NEED help! We have nothing to lean back on, nothing to tell employers at an interview to make them believe that we would be a good addition to their team. Then when we grow up, and have no college, no money, and no knowledge of economics, talk about a pathetic working class. America's gotta take care of its young so it can take care of you.
Every day I can't find a job (and I look every day) I get more discouraged. I just want to work, and at this point, I'm willing to work anywhere. But older people with more experience are taking the only jobs we possibly could've gotten. So don't complain about "them lazy young people these days" cause there's nothing we can do!
So the Armed Services are perfect for you. Good pay, educational help & a career. Don't have to cry no more.
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another unemployed teen wrote:
I understand why older people would be upset about something like this, cause I know you have bills and payments to take care of, unlike us, however, I would like to go to college, and that is a very expensive education.
I've been looking for three years, applying everywhere, and I still can't find a job for the life of me, and I'm 17. I'm actually afraid I will never be able to find a job. I have no experience. The older I get, the more and more pathetic my applications will seem, and then I can't go to college. What then? I can't expect my parents to take care of me their whole life, they can barely save up for their retirement right now.
Teens are at the bottom of the workforce foodchain, we NEED help! We have nothing to lean back on, nothing to tell employers at an interview to make them believe that we would be a good addition to their team. Then when we grow up, and have no college, no money, and no knowledge of economics, talk about a pathetic working class. America's gotta take care of its young so it can take care of you.
Every day I can't find a job (and I look every day) I get more discouraged. I just want to work, and at this point, I'm willing to work anywhere. But older people with more experience are taking the only jobs we possibly could've gotten. So don't complain about "them lazy young people these days" cause there's nothing we can do!
Your frustration is understandable, but don't blame the older people for your misfortune. People who worked for good companies for many years and suddenly got laid off would much rather work for a comparable company than for an entry level job in a restaurant or retail working for half or one-third of their former wages. Do you think a 50 year old salesperson WANTS to work at Burger King? It is not their fault that the majority of new jobs happen to be in those industries or anything remotely tourist related.

The only thing I can suggest to you since you are 17 and (I am guessing) you still live with your parents would be to do some volunteer work in an industry you are intersted in or something you can carry over to your college desires. You might not get paid, but you will get experience. Volunteer work can go a long way in the right industry. Good luck.
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another unemployed teen wrote:
I understand why older people would be upset about something like this, cause I know you have bills and payments to take care of, unlike us, however, I would like to go to college, and that is a very expensive education.
I've been looking for three years, applying everywhere, and I still can't find a job for the life of me, and I'm 17. I'm actually afraid I will never be able to find a job. I have no experience. The older I get, the more and more pathetic my applications will seem, and then I can't go to college. What then? I can't expect my parents to take care of me their whole life, they can barely save up for their retirement right now.
Teens are at the bottom of the workforce foodchain, we NEED help! We have nothing to lean back on, nothing to tell employers at an interview to make them believe that we would be a good addition to their team. Then when we grow up, and have no college, no money, and no knowledge of economics, talk about a pathetic working class. America's gotta take care of its young so it can take care of you.
Every day I can't find a job (and I look every day) I get more discouraged. I just want to work, and at this point, I'm willing to work anywhere. But older people with more experience are taking the only jobs we possibly could've gotten. So don't complain about "them lazy young people these days" cause there's nothing we can do!
Have you try looking at the local nursing homes? I know it's hard work and you might have to get dirty but it's a job.
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OMGITSKEN wrote:
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Listen your ass needs to stop complaining and actually try to get a job.Idk who the hell you think you are blaming it all on the mexicans.Man people like you make the USA look so damn racist.All you white people think you're better than everyone else just cause your white. Well i'm light skinned too sweetheart but you dont see me being so ignorant. If the white people are so good than why the hell did a white guy (george bush) put us in this deep problem. Stop being so damn racist cause the USA is all mixed and FYI mexicans owned this land way before the white people took over. Blacks, indians, asians and other races have fought to come to this country and idk how white people take all the credit.
Think That Through!
(USA is all mixed)

Yeah, that's a big part of the problem. Many are folks that WON'T work and enjoy the benefits of single moms w/multiple kids on welfare/section 8/et al. The illegals are getting US Citizen bennies like emergency room service, education, etc.

Wonder why California's going broke?
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