Posted on 01/09/2014 10:33:55 AM PST by IChing
I actually had this democrat former coworker say to me in 2007, when describing his long-term unemployed family members in Wisconsin, that people can't just uproot themselves and move somewhere else to find work, like it was an unreasonable idea. BULLS**T, that is exactly what life is about and how people are supposed to survive and thrive, by adapting and adjusting to conditions!
There will always be parasites as long as we have a government that sees fit to buy votes with welfare as a way of life.
We all know people who turned down work because the benefits were extended. And duh many of them ARE working under the table while collecting.
despite Obama’s continuous attacks on the economy and destruction of jobs....there are still lots of small merchants who can’t fill vacant jobs (not arduous jobs, either, but a variety of pretty decent situations, most of them anyway)
the business people all report that people just don’t want to go to work anymore, they want to just sit at home and watch the boobtoob
Yup, BARF
I kniw of a guy who hasn’t worked in over 6 years, reason being he can’t make as much as he did as an electrician so he just sits home & collects unemployment & buys illegal drugs. His wife & kids are barely surviving but he’s happy ripping off the system! Enough already!
That said, Unemployment should be limited and not extended. Extending it is just the Government continuing to get people hooked on the heroin of welfare. I just would not call them deadbeats. It is tough out there.
Yeap - one must go where the work is...there are communities all across the US that are dying...they were once manufacturing supported communities - but most have closed and relocated in China now...people hang on there as if the work will one day return...it won’t.
Once has to look at the skill sets that are in demand and go that route...sitting and waiting for Wash DC to get their head out of our arses is never going to happen...Wash DC, big corp profits, unions, foreign competition...is killing our economy...and as long as the US govt keeps printing valueless money from the Federal Reserve and issuing it out...the situation gets darker....
I could never sit still and wait for someone else to fix a problem that someone else created...kinda glad for my military training...
“I’m up - he sees me - I’m down” - “Move - Move - move!” ...and take the damn offensive!
True, all of it. However all of it is also due to the mentality of the majority of people who have voted for the scumbags and the policies they enact. Hence, growth of the deadbeat nation.
My kid brother, who was building a successful general contractor business before the housing collapse and before his competitors imported illegal aliens to undercut his work, went through exactly this situation because he was raised too well to mooch off the system.
It was sad seeing what he went through to avoid losing his house but, in the end, he decided his wife and children were more important than saving it. Both he and his wife went back to school, retrained for a new careers, and his daughters got scholarships and part-time work to stay in college.
I'm damn proud of the kid who could've just said "To hell with it! I followed the rules. The system screwed me. So now I'm going to live off the system."
I've been unemployed exactly two times for two months each in my whole life since I started working and never collected a damn dime from the government. That includes taking some pretty sh*tty low paying jobs to avoid being unemployed and moving several times, including a 14 year stint out of the country.
YES!!! This is so fundamental and basic to human life!
Dat's right! Once upon a time I worked 3 jobs to keep us treading water while my pregnant wife was on medical disability. We have had to pack our bags, load up the truck/trailer and move from crappy housing markets to more family friendly states, from areas stricken with closing businesses to those experiencing growth.
Was it easy? No way. Always a royal P.I.T.A., but moving towards a better chance for brighter future is always a good choice!
When I was a young man and lost my job I went to work for a temp agency as a laborer. One day was moving furniture, another was helping a store with inventory, another was moving stock from one place to another.
None took any skill. Because it was a temp agency I was free to continue my job search in my chosen field. It took a month but I survived and went back to a regular job.
There are jobs out there, you just have to be willing to do what it takes to earn a paycheck.
Democrats are willfully blind and stubbornly, intentionally wrong.
I do believe some people’s circumstances can occasionally justify collecting unemployment insurance—but overall, interviewers can smell it if one really wants to work or not, and as long as that benefit check is coming in, the attempt to get hired will mainly be half-hearted.
Government has created the current economic situation and is now trying to protect ITS rear end with these benefits. They have been wrong from the start.
I’ve never been unemployed for more than 2 months, as well. I could never pay my bills on UE checks, so it was never an option for me. I struggled and worked hard to get another job... I do understand that not all folks on UE for 2 years are deadbeats, but I have to be honest, I haven’t met any. Everyone I know that is living on UE for 99 weeks is a deadbeat.. Just saying...I don’t know anyone that isn’t a couch potato existing in this way..
From the article: “Don’t give them any food, water, or compass, and see how quickly they learn to eagerly seek to earn their way out of their situation.”
I have often said that unemployment benefits should not be paid until a person has been unemployed for six weeks.
Unemployment benefits have become a Democrat consultant’s dream come true: a long-term entitlement that has to be voted on every three months.
Send them all luggage and bus tickets and leave it at that.
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