And when the resources of the flayed and flogged productive run out, it is everyone's right to feed upon one another.
So help me Envy.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 07/14/2010 6:46:17 PM PDT by RWB Patriot
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Deborah Coleman lost her unemployment benefits in April, and now fears for millions of others if the Senate does not extend aid for the jobless.
"It's too late for me now," she said, fighting back tears at the Freestore Foodbank in the low-income Over-the-Rhine district near downtown Cincinnati. "But it will be terrible for the people who'll lose their benefits if Congress does nothing."
For nearly two years, Coleman says she has filed an average of 30 job applications a day, but remains jobless.
"People keep telling me there are jobs out there, but I haven't been able to find them."
Coleman, 58, a former manager at a telecommunications firm, said the only jobs she found were over the Ohio state line in Kentucky, but she cannot reach them because her car has been repossessed and there is no bus service to those areas.
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What is the normal time one is to receive unemployment?
They have my sincerest sympathy.
I know offhand of three hardworking well qualified good work history friends who have no job through no fault of their own. They are up to a year and a half with no work.
Some might say, make some work of your own, and there is some truth to that, but one can’t make a liveable wage overnight, usually. Business tend to start slow, if the commies will even allow you to legally build one.
They all voted correctly, as did what? 47% of the country. They did not ask for this wholesale economic destruction. Tarp 2, health care takeover, anti-capitalism screeds, shutting down the oil industry, etc. . . these things and much more are dragging us down. Not all the unemployed’s fault.
first of all...people in their 50’s are screwed....no one will hire you....not only are you damaging your potential SS benefits, if any, you also have no income in the years where most people are supposed to sock away big chunks of money after the child raising,college, wedding years....
“For nearly two years, Coleman says she has filed an average of 30 job applications a day, but remains jobless.”
Anyone can fill out job applications. you have to actually show up for the interview and ACCEPT a job to get paid. There are plenty of fast food and entry level jobs out there to help a person get by.
And when the resources of the flayed and flogged productive run out, it is everyone's right to feed upon one another.
So help me Envy.
I understand that extended unemployment tends to lengthen the unemployment period. But, these are hard times, and it is hard to find a job. So my question is, why can’t Congress pass an unadorned bill that ONLY extends these benefits but doesn’t add a bunch of other unrelated crap that costs many times as much? And why can’t these benefits be conditioned on some sort of unemployment or economic trigger level so that if the economy improves substantially (hope, hope) the benefits sunset to discourage the deadbeats?
the stupid people voted this disaster in...
since the election, from day one, jobs have flown out of this country at a startling pace...
I know some people are really looking for work and can’t find it, but I know alot of people, including one or two in my own family, have taken a one year vacation paid for by the unemployment system. They will only take jobs that meet their gold standard and since none are available, they sit back. Termination of payments is going to force a lot of people into the labor market and to take available jobs. That is a good thing.
“They have my sincerest sympathy.”
I agree.
The Government and Fed are pursuing fiscal and monetary policies that stoke unemployment, why shouldn’t unemployment benefits be extended by the Government, the guilty party causing unemployment?
The Democrats did this. They are in power (59% of the voting control of both houses!), and could easily have passed this, if they wanted to. But they are trying to use the unemployed as pawns in their desperate, cynical effort to retain control.
“...you have to actually show up for the interview and ACCEPT a job to get paid...”
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No, you DA, first you have to GET an interview, which you DON’T get if you are over age 50.
I lost my job 3 weeks ago. Still waiting for unemployment benefits. I have never felt so much dispair in my life.
Neither is it my fault. I am lucky enough to still be working, but my good fortune does not entitle someone else to the fruits of my labor. If I robbed you at the point of a gun and gave the money to my unemployed neighbor I would be arrested for armed robbery. When the government takes my money and gives it to the unemployed it is also done at the point of a gun, but somehow it becomes legal.
Even if she goes at it just 5 days a week, and takes a couple weeks off each year, we're talking 15,000 applications. That's impressive!
Pardon me Deborah, may I call you Debora?
Five days in a week, 52 weeks in a year, 260 weekdays in a year, 520 weekdays in two years. 30 applications per day for 520 days is 19,760 applications. And you have no job? Doubt it!
How many cans have you picked up? How many houses have you cleaned? How many yards have you raked?
Sorry, I don't buy it.
Sometimes you have to move to an area where there is another job. People can't just sit where they are and stay unemployed and look to the taxpayer to support them. That is what friends, family and your church do and they won't do it indefinitely either.
Whatever happened to people prioritizing, and saving several years worth of income? Before blowing wads on kids’ weddings, travel, new cars, and traditionally secondary or luxury items. What bothers me is that even some conservatives expect additional government handouts after a fairly short period of unemployment; as if other struggling Americans should sacrifice now for the sacrifices that weren’t made during the good times.
Call me old school. I scrimped for the first few decades in my lifetime, and was always bothered by those that spent as if times like this were never going to arrive again. They were having fun that I denied to myself, and now I have to deny them again?
30 applications/day
365 days/year
length of time on unemployment 2 years
This comes to about 21000 applications.
This doesn’t work for me. I’m just saying.
“For nearly two years, Coleman says she has filed an average of 30 job applications a day, but remains jobless.”
20k+ applications?
Call me sceptical.
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