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Unemployment benefits may be adding to job seekers laziness
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Posted on 04/19/2010 5:08:59 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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To: TornadoAlley3
Unemployment, plus food stamps, medicaide and a cash part time job can go a long way. We know one family that is doing this..
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:12:12 PM PDT
by
Oldexpat
To: TornadoAlley3
Democrats specialize in creating disincentives with our money. What they don’t seem to understand is that it’s not possible for everybody to live off of everybody else.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:12:34 PM PDT
by
Spok
(Free Range Republican)
To: TornadoAlley3
“Career counselor Sue Romanos works her tail off to find the unemployed like Fonseca jobs. “
Must be the one unemployment office lady that works.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:14:52 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: TornadoAlley3
That is why they used to limit unemployment benefits to six months. You had six months to find a good job. If you didn’t, you took what you could get and worked up form there. I think we should go back to that.
Disclaimer: Both my wife and I have been drawing unemployment and COBRA subsidies for 15 months. To the tune of almost 60k annualized. I start a new job on the 26th, a much better job then I had before.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:17:25 PM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(It's time to embrace the madness! The sooner we default the sooner we can reorganize.)
To: driftdiver
A whole new crowd of welfare recipients living off the gubmint.
We don’t need no steenkin self respect!!!!!!!1
To: TornadoAlley3
Massachusetts pays the highest unemployment. About $627 per week, IIRC, maxed out for a single.
Yes, Mass. is one of those states in series financial trouble.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:20:58 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
I guess I just don't understand this line of thinking... 4 1/2 years ago, I was out of work for 3 months. I was starting to have to consider putting my house up for sale and moving to an area with a job market more suited to my job skills. Luckily I was able to find a job... Though I had to take a massive cut in pay. I've made some of it back up in the last few years.
I have to say that I certainly wasn't making $300 a week... I was getting $200 a week (taxable), which was, IIRC, just enough to pay my COBRA payments.
Mark
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:21:07 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Oldexpat
At our neighborhood block part the other day it was very illuminating to hear a couple of formerly-working-class guys discussing how to milk the Florida unemployment system.
We're very screwed.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:22:59 PM PDT
by
The Duke
To: shelterguy
I know quite a few people that have been unemployed for a long time and are not turning anything down.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:24:15 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: TornadoAlley3
“Unemployment benefits may be adding to job seekers laziness”
That’s the whole freaking point. Make them dependent on the government.
Sorry _uck’s!
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:26:06 PM PDT
by
diverteach
(D.C. has become Jonestown)
To: TornadoAlley3
Unemployment benefits may be adding to job seekers lazinessDuh. If you subsidize something (unemployment), you get more of it.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:29:11 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
To: driftdiver
The only reason Ms. Romanos has a job is because other don’t.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:33:46 PM PDT
by
John-Irish
("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
To: driftdiver
“””I know quite a few people that have been unemployed for a long time and are not turning anything down.”””””””
They are the rare ones, unfortunately.
To: TornadoAlley3
This looks like a job for Captain Obvious.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:36:12 PM PDT
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: JoSixChip
I think you do not understand what a 17% unemployment rate means.
The issue isn't getting a "good job", it's getting "any job".
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:37:42 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
("Git Out The Way")
To: TornadoAlley3
Unemployment benefits may be adding to job seekers laziness
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:40:09 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: The Duke
You should be on the employer side of those kinds. Extremely frustrating to see them milking the system when you know they are working under the table but cannot prove it.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:40:18 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: muawiyah
Actually after having been layed off for 15 months, I consider myself an expert on the subject.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:40:31 PM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(It's time to embrace the madness! The sooner we default the sooner we can reorganize.)
To: TornadoAlley3
But of course, let’s blame the people who can’t find a job, can’t pay their mortgage and are in jeopardy of losing their home. Their kids’ college funds are down to nothing, but they’re just loving being out of work.
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posted on
04/19/2010 5:44:17 PM PDT
by
Carley
(I'll keep clinging to the constitution, my guns and my religion, thank you.)
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