A friend told me last week, he was on his third unemployment extension and getting $400 per week. He said he wouldn’t take a job until the government let his unemployment run out.
You pay people not to work, guess what they’ll do!
Or not do.
You pay people not to work, guess what they’ll do!
Or not do.
Perhaps that's the case with your friend and other younger workers but not so always. My husband was out of work last June, July, and August. He got a new job in manufacturing in September but was let go again at Thanksgiving. He has been on Unemployment since then and he gets about $380 a week. He is 58 years old and not likely to find it easy to get another job soon.
However, he would not consider a job that pays way below what he receives on Unemployment as we are just squeaking by now. I work a part time minimum wage job and have been looking for a full time job for the last year with no success. Right now I'm just grateful for the job I have because it allows me to buy reasonable health insurance.
FWIW, we qualify for food stamps and swallowed our pride and took them. Without them we would have had serious problems meeting our bills as I had major surgery in December. But you would not believe how free and easy they are with giving out those food stamps and your jaws would drop if you knew how much they are giving us. I can't spend all of it in a month.
I just want to make it clear that no matter how much Unemployment and food stamps Ovomit gives us, there is no way in hell either my husband or I will vote for him or any Demoncrap. We would prefer to work rather than collect any amount of "freebies." I feel sure that many others in our situation feel the same way.