The true purpose of this forum can no longer be denied. Voice must be given to the growing thousands, hundreds of thousands, who are out of work -- who are actually working very hard, but who are out of pay.
I confess, here and now, I stand in those ranks. I try not to fall down in those ranks.
Piece by piece I am stripped away. My ability to pay for the infrastructure necessary for me to try to obtain paid work (e.g., insurance coverage, office space, computer usage to search for work, transit, etc., etc.) diminishes weekly.
My self esteem, energy, and will to keep up the fight are battered.
I know I am not alone, though most in my former "circle" cannot really relate. Do not understand that of course I seek any work I can find. Of course I would scrub toilets or shovel horse manure. Or hold my tongue...or look the other way....These nicks to our integrity happen...when we have mouths to feed....
I dream we will all take to the streets, sleep in tents on the most gorgeous boulevards...dream we all unite in Tel Aviv and across the world...have not given up the dream that there are enough resources to go around and that the greedy will give up a small piece in order that the masses might have enough to eat....
