We Can Do It: Creating Opportunity

Jobs loss is more than a temporary inconvenience by those affected. While it is accurate to claim that jobs loss is a serious national problem, it would be an oversimplification to suggest that all we need to do is spend and hire more people to solve the ripple affect this problem creates in healthcare, community well being and our economic structure. Let us not wait for Government to care for one another and the problems we can solve. At the local and personal level we need to be also caring about our community in a deeper way than the news might cover.

It is essential for the well being of our nation that we have plans for what we will do at a Federal level, a State level and at a Community, and at a Personal level. President Elect, Barack Obama has released plans for what his administration plans to do for jobs creation.

At the governmental level, whether national or municipal it is easy for a citizen to claim the problem way bigger than them. At a Community and Personal level, it is way harder to claim they can make a difference when the problem affects your family, your friends, and neighbors. Government can sort things like jobs stimulus, tax base analysis, etc.

"Jobs Loss" is a nice glossy label for a much larger issue. Jobs Loss is not just an unfortunate personal inconvenience when it affects the tax base of a community of people who would, if they could, be working today. It is not a function of laziness or desire for welfare dependence that keeps them from returning to productive income... and yet what can we as a neighbor do, to offer really needed relief to those in need, that would do the same for us, were the tables turned...

We are a nation of optimism. We can take a punch and come back stronger. We can rebuild and grow to meet the needs of others.. We can do this because we do not wait for our government to really care that the community we represent is caring for one another and caring to help us recognize our personal best.

PLEASE add comments to this message, of great local resources for helping those affected by jobs loss, insurance issues, medical treatment, food and shelter, and utilities care. If you know of resources that help people to help themselves and others, please share it and we will compound the good.

IF you are employed and your employer offers charity matching, please share that and see your caring, and their offer for matching, compound the good. What else can and should we be doing to care for one another? If you know of companies hiring, please let us know. If you know of people looking for work, share this with them.

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