The Party of the New Deal does all in its power to help ALL Americans, advancing legislation that creates new jobs when the economy can't or won't. Best of all, Democratic initiatives address the nation's problems, whether building a strong defense so we never have to go to war, beating the Soviets to the moon, addressing health care for all, creating the best public education system in the world, defeating the energy crisis and de-polluting the planet, we will do what it takes.

Oh, hang on. Changed the script...We need austerity and the economy will come around and we'll have full employment and if you look, you'll find work.

That's better. All is right, now.

I wish. Sadly since I've been alive the only new deal seems to be with corporations and Wall Street. I wish scientists would hurry up and invent cloning so we could bring FDR back. He wasn't perfect by any means, but he was leaps and bounds ahead of what the Democratic Party is now.

In their field right away. Truly sucks. Those with student loans or who can't fall back on parents to support them are screwed.

We are being so short sighted as a nation by screwing our young educated workforce.

Earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence (standard law degree) in the Eighties.
Couldn't find a job as a paralegal after being a court reporter for nearly 10 years. I had seen a lot of trials in civil, criminal, family, bankruptcy, Federal court, magistrate court, county, District, all of em. Before that I typed pleadings, wills, divorce petitions and decrees, for my father.

Flunked the bar exam by 3 points on one section and ONE point on the Evidence & & Procedure section.


Went to my law school's job placement office in the early 2000s and in two years of looking, I got ONE interview.

Did the court reporting for 20 years until it drove me crazy due to stress of the job and nasty lawyers and judges. I feel like I wasted five years of my life working full time at the courthouse and going to law school at night. It's good to have the legal knowledge, but nobody wanted a super qualified paralegal.

I had so called friends who were partners at successful law firms who said, no they just couldn't give me a paralegal job. Partners split the profits of the firm at the end of the year, so these guys were making a million dollars a year in profits, besides their regular salary. But no, they couldn't get me a paralegal job. Some of them I had known BEFORE they went to law school. I had known them at the courthouse when they were bailiffs and clerks. They acted offended because I asked them for a job. I guess they think jobs fall out of the sky.

And it wasn't something I wanted to do because it wasn't creative. The parents said I had to get a hard science degree in undergrad, and dad was a lawyer and I wanted to be like him because he was a functional person. They had this assumption that you had to get a job doing something you didn't like because they had jobs they didn't like in the Depression and World War II. They assumed you couldn't get a job with a liberal arts or fine arts degree. I got a natural science Bachelor's degree and never got a job with that degree either.

If this country didn't throw away its educated young people in low wage jobs, I would be training trial lawyers, because I've seen more trials than most trial attorneys.

Who, me? Bitter and pissed? I can't work because I cannot abide idiots. Bosses tell me I broke some rule they didn't tell me about, so I guess they forgot to tell me I must be psychic as part of the job qualifications. All this talk of "mentoring" in the 80s was bullshit. Our society is competitive and I had nobody to help me along, it was all dog eat dog competition.

This is a long standing problem. Our country throws away its most educated young people. No wonder there is a brain drain to places like CERN in Switzerland. We had the opportunity to build a Superconducting Supercollider in Waxahachie, Texas, which would have been a world center for particle physics research, but politicians don't understand how much work and how much money it takes to start and run a successful science program. Congress cancelled the funding since they couldn't find any practical reason to have a particle accelerator. So Waxahachie is just another poverty stricken shit hole in Texas.