Comments on: Unemployment rate drops to 8.1 percent, but drop attributed to people giving up looking for work http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/05/04/unemployment-rate-drops-to-8-1-percent-but-drop-attributed-to-people-giving-up-looking-for-work/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:20:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jeff smith http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/05/04/unemployment-rate-drops-to-8-1-percent-but-drop-attributed-to-people-giving-up-looking-for-work/comment-page-1/#comment-5421 Jeff smith Fri, 04 May 2012 19:26:20 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=37449#comment-5421 I was laid off at G.M. up in janesville WI. it me 10 yrs. to get that job!The president even came up and rode through the plant did he save our jobs no a little while after that the plant shut down for good after being the oldest G.M. plant in the country. I have only gotten temp jobs in the last 4 yrs.I applied out at chrysler out in Belvidere i will get lucky and get the same job i was doing up a G.M. I have been trying to get on for four years now.I did not work For G.M. but a parts supplier so i did not get the option of going to another plant like the G.M. WORKERS did. So we all just got screwed have to live in poverty thats the way it goes.I will tell you one thing i dont to vote for obama but i don't like Romney either. But you have to for someone.Obama made promises he did not keep! I was laid off at G.M. up in janesville WI. it me 10 yrs. to get that job!The president even came up and rode through the plant did he save our jobs no a little while after that the plant shut down for good after being the oldest G.M. plant in the country. I have only gotten temp jobs in the last 4 yrs.I applied out at chrysler out in Belvidere i will get lucky and get the same job i was doing up a G.M. I have been trying to get on for four years now.I did not work For G.M. but a parts supplier so i did not get the option of going to another plant like the G.M. WORKERS did. So we all just got screwed have to live in poverty thats the way it goes.I will tell you one thing i dont to vote for obama but i don’t like Romney either. But you have to for someone.Obama made promises he did not keep!

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