I was one of the guys holding the "Honk To Save Medicare" sign at the event. Judging by the reaction we got to our Honk sign most people driving by want to save Medicare from the GOP's schemes. Even the guy who drove by in the Fire Dept truck gave us a tweak of his siren.

Biggert's job fair was just sad. I suppose it's nice of her to try but I wandered around inside and if that is indicative of the job market the federal government needs a infrastructure jobs bill ASAP. Biggert and the rest of John Boehner's kamikaze squad of job killers better get that message soon. I counted about 20 exhibitors though I've seen quotes from FOX and Biggert's people of 75 and 85. The Labor Dept had a table with booklets explaining worker rights, a couple of temp agencies were offering up some entry level manufacturing jobs in Blue Island and some health insurance company jobs downtown (Obamacare is providing the industry with 50 million new customers in 2014 so they need to staff up for that I guess). A real estate office was there but my guess is they were looking for people at the end of their rope who need to short sale their homes. A pet supply store was selling goods, a life insurance company, the Transportation Safety Administration. Very few actual jobs on offer, even fewer offering wages a bread winner needs to provide for a family and few people actually collecting resumes. I didn't expect much but like I said that was just sad.