Folks that have lost their jobs should be helped. One needs to go through an investigation to determine if they are eligible for UI. If a person has lost their job due to conditions beyond their control and are having trouble finding work..yes, they should be helped. It averages about 300 a week...probably just enough to put food on the table and pay a gas bill. I’m for helping...as long as it takes.
So, you’re willing to foot the bill out of the kindness of your heart? It must be nice to be so wealthy that you are offering to pay for all those people. You ARE proposing this charity spending with your own money, aren’t you?
After one year, it is no longer unemployment insurance - it is WELFARE.
If a person can not find a job - any job within a 365 day period, they may as well be honest with us and themselves by joining the welfare class.
If we had the money and could afford it, then I would be for it too. We do not have the money and this will only increase our debt to our future generations of Americans, increase our debt to china and other foreign powers, depress the seeking of jobs (this was proved in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act) and increase the odds that America will default and find itself insolvent. You get an agreement that cancels 1 dollar of current spending for every dollar of unemployment benefits and I will gladly sign on to it.
Does this mean a friend in CT who lost her job and now goes on world cruises, the one who bitched when sequestion reduced her $475/per week unemployment, now eligible to continue collecting?
I agree with you there; this isn’t like just a decade ago when there were plenty of jobs and plenty of opportunities. Until times get better we need to keep off the streets.
I would concur for those that are looking for any available jobs and not only looking for jobs they prefer or intentionally stringing out the benefits as long as possible. I would concur that for those people, the important thing is that they get the help they need and if people don’t want public funds being used for that, then they need to pressure churches and charities to step up to the plate and get it done themselves. But there needs to be separation between those that are doing everything within their control to find work and support themselves and those who are actively choosing not to.
Go ahead then and pay for it yourself. Leave us Americans alone.