By the way, you missed insulting a few other posters on this thread who weren’t as glowing about the freeloaders. I guess it was just my post that personally affected you so badly.
I was in your shoes in 2009. It is a year that I will never forget as long as I live and pray to God I never have to repeat. It was the most humiliating year of my life. My entire family, including a disabled son, lived in a car and traveled the country looking for work that could not be had. There is nothing worse than paying in a checkout line with a food card and showering in truck stops. Both my husband and I discussed suicide more than once because the humiliation was more than we could bear. As an aside, coming to FR and reading the hateful anti-unemployment screeds is unwise. Stay off those types of threads. They will break your mind and do you in. If you stumble upon the ignorant, don’t bother arguing. You are wasting your breath and energy on the clueless. Best to put your energy elsewhere.
After failing to find work after a year, we started a business. We are much better off now than we had ever been in our lives. My only regret at this stage in my life is that we didn’t do it earlier. It took the Marxist wrecking the economy to get us motivated. We were always afraid of failure and of regretting giving up our cushy jobs and bennies. Now that your job is gone and you have nothing else to lose, give it a try. Just be sure that you choose something necessary to the economy even in bad times. THAT is the key. It will not be easy and there are times you will have to tell yourself that failure is NOT an option. Stick with it and you will succeed. Then come back to FR and slap an ignorant bitch that you probably have paid more taxes in a year than she in a lifetime.