Jobs are important.

   Since the age of 18, I have had trouble finding work. My first job, was a summer job working for the Richland County Waste Management Authority at the age of 19. I mowed a decommissioned landfill. I would grasp hold of temporary positions sporadically over the until I was around 23 or the year 2009. During this time period I was enlisted in the Air National Guard. It took me 5 years to get a position that was permanent and full time. Even that was a fluke/ it was a contract that was suppose to last I months and finished early that miraculously turned into a position I held for 3 years. I sit here writing this, in my mom's basement, about to enter my second month of unemployment. In 8 years, with the summation of my glossed over work experience, I had only worked for at most 4.5 years and at least 4 years.

   I have no degree.I have marketable skills and experience thanks to that miracle (or recognition of my hard work) and my military experience though that doesn't matter. Many college graduates go through spending thousands of dollars of their money, their parents money and/or loaned money. They are faced with the same situation: "Wondering and pondering where is that job that was promised to me when I received this embossed manila paper with a couple of gold star and signature of someone who I never met?"

   Jobs requirements are drastically different from a decade ago and the cost of education is to the point of being counter-productive. Pay isn't matching up to effort, skill needed or investment in the education for skill set. Applying to work these days is like playing darts, blindfolded, while spinning around in a circle. The job market is the room spinning in the opposite direction threatening to toss the occupant out at any moment. That is where we stand jobs are limited, inflaming debts everywhere and no one knows where to turn.

   So what are we going to do? What will our representatives, senators, governors and mayors do. What will our president do? There are so many issues, that all of them can  not be fixed at once: deficit,war,jobs and poverty. The worst is America as a whole is not a team. We fight among ourselves be it  party, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, social class and what ever other thing  we have chosen to align and identify ourselves with. America is in a silent civil war.

What are your ideas on fixing the unemployment problem? Can you state them with out point fingers at some group?