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June 21 (Bloomberg) — At least 10 people were killed during clashes with Iranian police and defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi called for further demonstrations in defiance of Iran’s supreme leader.  More

President Obama conducted the first town hall internet meeting .  The first meeting of it’s kind in the history of the internet.  This unprecedented grass roots effort is one that is needed in doing the critical work that will lead to our economic recovery.  It is a slow and tedious process, but the constant high tech communications will go a long way in opening the lines of communications  from the people to the White House these are important times hen we will need to focus on areas that will make a difference.

There will be a little trial and error involved in this process.  But it is a time when we willl need to move forward with bold ideas and risk taking in order to accomplish our economy goal. These are indeed the focus  that we will need to ursue as a nation.  Obama’s idea of bringing diverse segments of the population together to solve problems.  It is a way for President Obama to get a guage of what the American people are thinking.

Make no mistake the President has his work cut out for him and this focus will need to continue in order to to move from our negative economic condition.  Issues centered around Education, Mortgage Issues, Health care and a host of domestic issue that have threaten to undermine our progress economically.  President Obama identified the problem of declining equity in homes as the root of the mortgage crises.

Questions about outsourcing were asked.  Obama says that we cannot have an economy thst relies a low skilled and low pay wages.  There will always be a country willing to do the same work for lesss. President Obama basically proposed that we retrain workers  to work in higher skilled occupaction in green job, high tech job, that will have more of an opprotunity to put Americans Bacl to work.In order for this to happen we will need to  put more resorces and money into training and education. Obma urged patience and persistent; warning that there will be more job losses.

President Obama  said Universal heath care “is our goal”.  Obama says that  he is not an advocate of scraping the current system.  He would like to transistion in to a new system that includes a number of initiatives, but more importantly transition to a universal health care system.

The CEO of AIG said that some of the people who received a bonus said that they would stay and try to help, but they turned around and took their millions of taxpayer dollars and walked out with our money.  In other words, they truly cared about their country and the American people.  This is absolutely ridiculous.  The folks at AIG do not have a clue and further do not care about American people who are suffering through layoffs, no food to eat, living in tent cities, their homes are being foreclosed on, and they have little or no hope of securing a job.

Wall Street has ruined this country.  Corporations are laying off older workers who make a high salary in order to please the hallowed share holder.  If you are an employee who has at least 2o to 25 years in the bank with one company and it is a publicly traded company, you are at risk of  being laid off in favor of keeping a younger workers who can be paid much less than the you the older worker.  Don’t get me wrong young workers deserve a job too and many of them have been laid off as well.  The point is corporations do not care about anyone; young or old. All in the best interest of the glorified share holder.

Companies are only interested in Wall Street and they could care less about Main Street. If you have never been laid off, let me enlighten you about what happens. You put in 25- 30 years of services to a publicly traded company. You worked harder than just about anyone at  your place of employment. Did not take vacation days. Performed your job over and above requirements;  then you get laid off. They tap you on the shoulder and tell you to go to HR, where you hear a speech that your job as been eliminated, it has nothing to do with you. It is not personnel, but you no longer have health insurance and we don’t care that you have a pre-existing condition (cancer).   That happened to me and that’s what corporate, and publicly traded companies do to  hard working Americans.

So yes AIG needs to get the money back from these greedy Wall Street executives and give the money back to the American people. They need it to eat. Buy health care and to feed their families.

If you lost your job, and today we learned that there are 3.6 million Americans who have lost their jobs, then join the club. It is growing daily. Now is the time for congress to act and pass the stimulus package. How many resumes have you sent out. Day after day, people are sending out resumes, knocking on doors. The trouble is each day job seekers are forced to compete with another 500,000 workers who are doing the same thing…… knocking on doors.

I want to hear your story, perhaps we can network with other right here are this blog. Recruiters take not everyone needs a job. This is a totally bad economy. There are 3.5 million people who need to find a way to provide income for their families.

Lets do something ourselves. If you have networking suggestions. If you know suggestions on how to go about finding a job. I would like to hear from you. I will do my part by providing more suggestions to those of us who are struggling right now to find work.

Last night, President Obama recorded a series of national network and cable news interviews about the urgent need for an economic recovery plan. Watch the video and share it with your friends and family:

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President  Barack Obama completed his first week, by dismantling many of President George Bush Policies that he put in place. He Culminated the week with a 240-188 victory in the House in favor of the Economic Stimulus package, which paved the way for Senate debate.  This is a crucial bill that will determine the direction that we take in 2009 and beyond More

Sprint  announced layoffs of over 8,000 workers today across the board and across the country.   Sprint  one of the big three wireless companies continues to real from bad business decisions and bad customer service. The layoffs are the latest  result in the in Sprint’s attempts to  control the  business landscape and satisfy shareholders. Will it work?  It it will be difficult.