It was pulled from underneath me.

Turning over a new chapter into our nation history finding me unable to clearly see the words. The future is absolutely uncertain. Our country is in dire straits. This fact was made clear as day to me this week. I have been searching long and hard for a job to pay off my debts that I have accrued within the last few years and I thought I struck gold with my last interview. I was hired on the spot and was asked to return the following Monday to being job training.
Monday arrived and I was excited to begin my first day training to be a Loan Officer for American Mortgage & Investment in Largo, Maryland. It was five minute from my house, the possibility for an unlimited income was high. My confidence was high. The first day of training was an absolute bore, however. The trainer was dressed very well, in a tailor-made suit and had a really nice silver attaché. I sat in a class of five and played audience to the trainers accounts of his exploits in his first year in the business. After his “lecture” he let us go early. I met a really nice Nigerian dude who graduated from Howard University and a sweet girl who manages a bar a DC the name of which I have since forgotten. We spoke about our hopes for this job and were all generally looking forward to knocking out training and making our money.
The next day, we all met in the conference room to wait for our trainer to get into the office. All of us sat silently, probably because it was too early for many of us, it being 11 o’clock and all…Anyways, in our silence was a sweet luxury, listening to the conversation in the room next door. Well, it can be loosely described as a conversation…there seemed to be a group of gentleman in room with one yelling and screaming obscenities. He seemed quite irate but my only thought was that he was firing people. Firing people would leave more money for me! (or so I thought)
Our trainer came by, in the same suit different shirt, this time no tie, and he seemed disheveled. He walked us to the classroom and we began. He got straight into the material, no jokes, no ice breaker, and definitely no exchange of warm sentiments. Two hours later he gives us a break. We all decide to just sit in class and talk. We discussed our goals, hopes and the problem we had with some of the stuff he was teaching us. Twenty minutes later he comes back in and tells us,
“I’m sorry to tell you this but we are no longer able to hire any of you. We thank you for your time and if you like I will finish todays discussion but otherwise I wish you luck in the future, and again, we are sorry.”
We sat for minute or so while this all settled into our heads. The first inclination was to assume that he was testing us or weeding out the weak or something but sadly, this was not a joke. I asked him,
“What Happened?”

To which he replied,

“What do you mean what happened? Our branch is being completely closed to due to a lack of production. So, if any of you know someone hiring a sales manager, let me know.”

We all left. Didn’t say word. We were all really disappointed. So I have this for the next President. Jobs are being lost all over the place. Blips of unemployed souls are sparking every second and it happens in droves not one by one. Something needs to be done, the people need to be put first. American needs to begin to care about its own. I urge the American government to stop looking overseas and in essence, looking over your own people. Focus your legislation to help your people first. We are no longer the super power we once were. Drowning funds in hard power is not effective against countries like China and Russia who are focusing on strengthen their own economic situation. Both countries still have ways to go in social reform but they are heading in the right directions. We cannot keep lagging behind. What chance do we have if you can get layed-off during job training? American needs to find stability and working towards making that the norm.