Unemployment

I've got bad news for the unemployed. Your cushy, air conditioned cubicle gig is never coming back. Downsized corporations have eliminated unnecessary drone work forever. Productivity is super high and it will stay that way. No more creating jobs for jobs sake. Whatever you do in the future you must significantly contribute to productivity.

Maybe cutting off unemployment benefits for good will jolt a complacent workforce on the dole into accepting new realities, rally the entrepreneurial spirit and spur the desperate to adapt and survive. Your future career may find you working outside, on a noisy shop floor, in a steamy kitchen or baking away on a hot rooftop. If you really want to work respectfully request the grunt work being done by an illegal immigrant and while you're at it stand up to the unscrupulous employers that have for so long taken advantage of the immigrant labor force. Criticize, unionize become an American worker. Demand a share of the profits, participate in ownership, partner with management an become an inventive, integral part of a permanent solution. Starting over marks a beginning, who can tell where it will lead.

There will always be work to be done. Things to make and fix, land to furrow and pick, objects to straighten and clean, dreams to behold and invention brought to fruition.

This is a time to balance your expectations, learn the difference between wants and needs and understand the camaraderie of purpose and the blissful cooperation of the mutual undertaking of labor.

It is as if we are little children and must be once again be taught the difference between work and play. Someone in the world has made a mess and it does no good to place the blame for this shamble puts us all to shame. Time to get busy and put it right.