[2ndDivisionVet]

Once Upon A Time I was a veteran's career counselor at the state unemployment office. A man was sent to me for help in finding another job. He had sold his insurance company (company, not agency) to a French firm and had spent a year as a consultant after the sale as part of the purchase agreement. He was therefor an employee for a year and filed for unemployment insurance. I, of course, had access to his earnings data, and he had several million dollars in each quarter, but he took the check and there was nothing to stop him. Nor should there be.

[sinanju]

Class warfare!! Get the guillotine! Damn those dirty little mustachioed Monopoly men!!

[ccmay]

It’s insurance, not a handout. He’s no more guilty than a millionaire who collects the Social Security due him after decades of paying into it.

Both programs were set up that way back when people still had some pride about such things, even on the Left.

[mmichaels1970]

then they aren't the type to turn down free money

Not sure of this, but aren't they forced to pay unemployment insurance when they are employed?

[Elyse]

Many years ago, I worked at a convenience store. One day I was sweeping up the parking lot and my boss, who owned a small chain of four stores, walked up. He saw a few pennies on the ground and he asked me if I was going to pick them up. I said, “No, it’s just a few cents.” My boss reached down and scooped up the pennies and while sticking them in his pocket, he said, “That’s why I own all these stores and why you just work at this store.”

[A CA Guy]

They pay into the system and I think the top paying check is small compared to their earnings.
They probably never will get all they paid in back in benefits.

[A CA Guy]

They pay into the system and I think the top paying check is small compared to their earnings.
They probably never will get all they paid in back in benefits.

[A CA Guy]

They pay into the system and I think the top paying check is small compared to their earnings.
They probably never will get all they paid in back in benefits.

[Figment]

Absolutely I’d file for it under the same circumstances. The same argument will be brought up when social security goes to means testing to deny payments to those who paid their entire working lives

[sten]

What does it matter? If he made $5m in a year, odds are he paid more than $1m in taxes... Isn’t there a cap on the amount anyone can get on welfare? Like $300/wk ... Assuming no kids

If so, it’s nothing compared to what he paid in

[ataDude]

I guess before they write an article, they first ought to get a hand on what a millionaire is. It’s not someone who makes a million a year... rather, it’s someone who as accumulated $1 million or more in net worth (assets less liabilities). Geez.

[ataDude]

I guess before they write an article, they first ought to get a hand on what a millionaire is. It’s not someone who makes a million a year... rather, it’s someone who has accumulated $1 million or more in net worth (assets less liabilities). Geez.