Hard Landing For Many Laid-Off

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Serge Kher had never been unemployed until his job as general manager of a car dealership in Virginia Beach, Va., was eliminated in March.

After sending out 107 resumes, trolling Internet job sites and looking into different fields, the 48-year-old father of four had only one interview.

"I'm starting to go crazy," he said last week in a telephone interview. "There are days when I feel that I'm worthless."

Kher, now a stay-at-home dad, got one month's severance pay and is collecting $300 per week in unemployment benefits. His family went without health benefits for two months until his wife found a job offering the insurance.

Still, he's received more aid than most Americans laid off since 2000, according to a new study by researchers at Rutgers University and the University of Connecticut.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/28/national/main565331.shtml

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It's beyond my comprehension the Dems. and the media don't pound Junior on the economy. So what if it picks up now. We've gone through 3 years of hell under Junior because he's an incompetent manager. Just like Bin Laden, are we going to give Junior another chance to do his acts? If we do see a little recovery and then we have more serious economic trouble in 2 years, do you trush Junior to manage the economy? Come on people, Junior cheated his way through Yale to a C-. I honestly don't believe true Republicans feel Junior is competent. His family has seized control of the GOP Party and the honest Repukes don't have a choice but to support an idiot.

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1. I agree, it's frustrating

The problem is denial. People with jobs who are relatively comfortable--Demos as well as Republicans--seem to have a hard
time caring about, much less understanding how desperate things are for the sub-employed/ unemployed underclass. They either don't care or comprehend what life is like on welfare or with no health insurance.

Demos as well as Repubs seem only concerned about the upper middle class. No one speaks for the poor, except the Black Caucus.