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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (536405)	2/6/2004 9:17:37 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Manufacturers cut 11,000 jobs last month, the 42nd straight decline since August 2000. quote.bloomberg.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (536405)	2/6/2004 12:21:41 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

I am amazed that ANYone is out of work. Jobs are everywhere. Teens? Out of work? Foolish. My kids were having a discussion about this last summer with a neighbor kid who complained he couldn't find work. I sensed a lie. So, we made a few calls for the guy, told him it would cost him $80 bucks to become a certified lifeguard (refundable) over three weekends of training, after which he would get to work in a very cushy indoor pool as a lifeguard. Since a few of my kids are lifeguards, they knew of a place that could use the guy. Gave him the information, the kid whined about the training and how hard it was to clean a pool! One of my kids told him straight away that he was just lazy-- and it is true. I suspect this kid is lazy because his parents are lazy. And I suspect this laziness is found in very many Americans, which is why so many "can't find" jobs. There are guys, grown men, husbands and fathers, who are actually sitting around in today's America complaining about not having jobs. Dass some crazy mess. Work is everywhere. You can shovel snow, clean gutters, mow lawns, fix stuff, tutor math, clean houses, look for a better job, learn new skills all at the same friggin' time. If I were to lose everything, every single thing today, tomorrow I would be selling mess left and right and working somewhere, doing something, anything, to put food on the table. It would be a friggin' welcomed challenge to see how much money I could make each day from scratch. And I won't complain to a soul about not being able to find work-- not when there really is work all around me. Folks just be too friggin' prideful and lazy - and they just don't understand that rolling with the punches and climbing out of a spot is a lot of fun. Can't feel pity for lazy Americans when folks are literally starving in other countries because there really is no work, no food, no nothing.