Meanwhile those ways are considered by anyone with half of a brain to be poverty level wages. So much for that economic prosperity that we have in the Metro. So much for professional competence in the Mayors Office.

Tell all this crap about ZirMed, the medical center, and Museum Plaza to everyone that is not from here. Tell something that is true to the local college grads who are facing the choices of leaving here so that they can find jobs somewhere in this poor economy. Much less to listen to a guy that has for years obfuscated the decline of the local job market. The taking over of the city by temporary agencies based on ripping off employees to stuff their pockets full.

Meanwhile, a guy named Jeff is out there slaving away for some temp agency getting screwed over for 8 dollars an hour working his fingers to the bone while guys like Abramson and the owner of the temp agencies are yukking it up at some social function.

Tell me how great that is that this so called Possibility City that one of the Blues bragged about in their last propaganda piece in the CJ. No wonder the young are clamoring for the next bus ride out of here or by any other means.

Noticeably our locally based media interviewed one of these temp agencies and didn’t bat an eye when they mentioned that the local college grads are having a horrid time finding jobs and the only real jobs they were advertising for were as either welders or some box flipping job. The leaders of this city are really incompetent when all this city has to offer is low wage food service jobs, retail jobs, box flipping jobs at some warehouse or some other nonsense. Thats what the youth of this community is being trained to do? Come on. And get some leadership here that aren’t clueless idiots and total incompetents. In that case, we might have to dismiss half of the Metro Council.

When you can walk into work and do your job day after day and still get laid off, something isn’t right with the productive economy. Meanwhile, people are in a lot of cases in worse shape than me so this college grad will try not to complain incessantly.

What I will say is that the current people in the Metro Council need to be replaced an a more business friendly organization needs to be put in place. When people keep losing jobs through no fault of their own well something does not make sense. Some of that is the national economy but a lot of it involves the local marketplace and the crappy local economy that for years has been a loser.

All the happy talk about Humana jobs and Zir-Med’s new “high rise” ignores the fact that as people lose jobs, they lose health insurance, too.

As Ray Crider told me, “The mayor has had a tough year.” He’s right. But so have we.

Hugs,
Jimmy