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Cynicism 101
Dear Mister President Elect

Hello.  I am one of your citizens living in one of the poorest states in the country.

I am currently 27 years old.  I have a degree from a university, and yet I am not working in my field.  I work at a job where I make less than $500.00 a month.  Currently I am about $40,000 in debt.  My partner has two degrees and is also not working in his field.  He makes about $1000 dollars a month and he is about $30,000 in debt.  On a monthly basis we scramble to find the money to afford simple things like food, heat, electricity, fuel for our cars so that we can reach our meager paying jobs, and, occasionally a movie on date night.  All said and told, all money that comes in to the household doesn't belong to us, even before it's made.

I'm wondering, Sir, with all due respect, what is going to be done for the people like us, who number somewhere in the hundreds of thousands, who cannot find jobs in OUR country because they have all be outsourced, or cut because of looming financial depression, and are about a week away from living in the streets?  I realise that there are REAL concerns like the Middle East, Global Warming, and the UAW out there in the world, but, if your people can't live in the country they were born and educated in, then why should we stay here and have faith in our leaders?  The fact is, our country is failing.  The people who have put their faith in  you and your predecessors are getting really desperate down here in the trenches.

Do you have a real answer for any of us?

Signed

Penniless in Michigan.