This morning while watching C-Span I heard Congressman Jessie Jackson Jr make an announcement in the House of his desire for the unemployed and the "99er's" to send there resume and story as a cover to Congress. This apparently is not his first request, and I found a story at Huffington Post on this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-thornton/rep-jesse-jackson-jr-rece_b_809589.html . Jessie has gotten over 15,000 resumes already. For those of you who want to send congress the story of your job search and your resume the address is resumesforamerica@mail.house.gov I'm not going to post my resume here, but here is the letter: Dear Congress, I am 60 years old, too young to be retired, too old to be unemployed. In the current economy and at my age and health my chances of re-employment diminish. I wasn't planning to retire early, but rather late, because of my small amount of savings. Now, when I do get a job again, I will h...
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