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I have known several people over the years (including a sister), who miraculously find jobs about a week before the unemployment benefits run out. This has been the pattern during both GOP and RAT administrations (the people I know vote RAT), during good times and bad. And as soon as they are hired, them seem to spend their time looking to get fired so that they can start the pattern all over again.

I've often said that the best way to reduce unemployment is to require a person to be unemployed for 30 days before they can apply for benefits.

I have known several people over the years (including a sister), who miraculously find jobs about a week before the unemployment benefits run out...And as soon as they are hired, them seem to spend their time looking to get fired so that they can start the pattern all over again.

My soon to be ex-husband did exactly that. Unemployed for 9 months, left me the day after I got home from hip replacement surgery, moved in with his ex-girlfriend he has admittedly been sneaking around with the entire 16 years we were married, "miraculously" got a job the week his unemployment ran out in June and then managed to get get laid off right after August 1st when he could reapply for unemployment again. He's also been working "under the table" for a friend of his. He says the Judge will look at the fact that I have a good job (24 years) and that he is on unemployment and he won't have to pay for anything in the divorce. Fortunately, my attorney says the Judge will see right through his ruse.

His girlfriend is on disability for no apparent reason and has been manipulating him royally to be a parasite on society like she is. He had been harping about going on disability for several years due to a heart bypass he had 3 years ago (that I paid for and supported him during recovery), but I told him I personally know of at least 10 men who have had that surgery and have gone on to live full productive lives. I told him to apply for a job at Home Depot in the electrical department. I bought him a computer and tried to teach him how to use it so he could maybe get a job in a parts warehouse or as an estimator, but he refused to learn. I guess he finally got tired of me trying to make him live up to his responsibilities while she was playing to his pity party.

Although there are honest people out there on unemployment and disability, I am finding more and more that they are in the minority these days.