Labor Day

Well said crack.

Absolutely no disrespect intended here, but I don't think the economy has nearly as much of an impact on the availability of radio talk show host jobs as it does on jobs in my industry (IT). There is clearly a HUGE difference in the quantity, quality, and salaries of U.S. jobs available in this industry vs. 4-5 years ago. There is no denying the major upswing for people in this industry, which happens to be a big into offshoring as well.

No disrespect taken. We're just discussing. Don't worry about hurting my feelings. I have quite a thick skin. (and head at times)

The radio talk show I developed is my own Frankenstein. I literally put the whole thing together myself and purchase airtime. In a sense, I created my own job.

As far as IT goes, I thought the market was saturated with more people than available jobs. Am I wrong?

What I have seen during the bush administration is something I never before have seen in my life and that is a major wedge shoved between people of opposing views. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention before but I never noticed so much conflict before.

What we need to remember AS AMERICANS is that we love our country and need to do whats best for it. We all need to find common ground or things will get worse than they are.

A barometer that I use (one of many) is the job section of the newspaper. During the Clinton era, there was three entire sections with thousands of available jobs in all fields. Now, during the bush era, it is down to just a few pages.

Is this accurate and scientific. Not really but it does provide a pretty good benchmark I think.

During the course of my show I get calls from people that use their credit cards to meet living expenses and they are deep in debt because of it. I don't know about Texas but in Chicago theres not all that many jobs for the average working stiff. Perhaps the blame should fall upon the shoulders of our governor. Perhaps on the businesses. Perhaps on the citizens. I don't know.

My show is called The Debtonator and we discuss credit and debt issues among other things. I currently am petitioning Illinois residents to have courses in credit cards and debt management as requirements prior to graduating HS. In Illinois there is no such class.

I'll be walking 200 miles in the fall, after halloween, to hand deliver what I hope to be 100,000 sigs to the governor.

Just a bit of shamelss promotion.

LOL!!I never heard of shamlss before.

I work in IT Consulting. I promise you that jobs are MUCH easier to find than they were a few years ago. The change is significant. My company is in a hiring frenzy. There is plenty of work to be had in this industry.

I agree that there is MUCH polarization in the U.S. political climate today. And I agree that Bush is a very stubborn man, even though I usually agree with his positions. But there are too many on the other side of the fence who blame him for EVERYTHING - from offshoring of jobs to flu shot shortages to even the inconvenience of the early daylight savings this year (I actually had a coworker who bitched about "George Bush and his early time change"...seriously!) From the day he took office in '01 (actually before) there was so much resentment and so much "Bush stole the election" rhetoric that created a hostile environment. I don't think the Dems were willing to meet him in the middle because they couldn't get past attacking his character before his first day on the job. And the obsession has only grown.



American wages are higher than in any other country, and EVERYBODY who works and pays taxes has received a tax cut during the Bush presidency, not just the top tier of earners, despite the inaccuracies spread by those on the left. So maybe your callers are living in high rent districts. Maybe their cars are more than they can afford. Credit card debt sucks, but it is usually the fault of the spender, not the government.

I am not familiar with your radio show, but based on your opinions, I suspect most of them are Bush haters and pretty far left (as is most of Chicago). You can count on people on the fringes (left or right) to skew the facts to make things appear as they want them to appear. I would be hesitant to believe every word of their claims.

the IT market (which i also work in and have a direct role in interviewing and hiring) is saturated with crap candidates.

It took us nearly 5 months to find an eleigible candidate for an open position. And it's not like we were asking for much. All the stuff we wanted is popular technology, and our salary range was open DOE, so it's not like we were'nt offering enough to get the good folks in.
we must've sorted through 50 resumes, interviewed 10, and ended up outsourcing to a head hunter to help us fill the position.

Tons of people with college degrees in IT with no experience, have no clue what content management is all about, and couldn't query a DB to save their lives, let alone display it and mark it up nice with CSS.


People are in trouble with their finances because they are stupid. End of story.

ever watch suze orman on cnbc?

the part "can i afford it" is just absurd. you got people calling in who take home 4k a month combined with their spouse asking if they can afford a ferarri, or a 750,000 house. and then there's the materialistic retards who call in and ask if they can afford a $300 coach purse. 99% of the time, they want to charge it.

i mean, for real.

if you want something thats not IMPORTANT, SAVE for it FIRST, then buy it. don't buy it and THEN pay for it.

LOL!

You can't even get the mispelling right.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

THAT'S PRICELESS!!!!!

Actually the station is owned by an 80 year old stubborn as **** old italian-republican guy that I lock horns with politically ALL the time, but the bulk of the audience are bush haters. Who else would listen to my show.

I do however encourage an uncensored show where everyone, no matter how wrong they are, can say what they want. (without swearing of course)

I'm actually looking to do an internet show to let everyone know what my opinions are. A right that they are surely entitled to.

I appreciate your points of view allthough I disagree with SOME. I'm glad we can discuss things as two people that love their country. But lets not forget how fun it is throwing barbs at each other every now and then.

I'm not the one pretending i['m perfect.

I'm not pretending.

Let me spell that again, "shamelss". Perfect, far from it.

i'd be more than willing to host a pod cast for you

That would be GREAT. What I want to do is present ALL sides and some spirited discussion too. I envision it as being uncensored and unscripted.

What do I need to do???

Uncensored, yeah right.

It will be fun chewing YOU up bro. Hope you can call in.

You couldn't handle the bleeps. So it must not be true free speech.

Bleeps???

What the **** are you talking about?

The all knowing libby can't figure it out? Clue, does freespeech include profanity?

Libby??? Dude, seriously, what the **** are you talking about???

Or should I just ignore you again?

On MY internet radio show/podcast, it will include profanity.

Do what ever tickles your fancy.