"Hidey Hidey Hidey Ho...."
Posted on 06/16/2010 1:18:36 PM PDT by oblomov
"Hidey Hidey Hidey Ho...."
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Beat me!
Ah...the ‘something for nothing tribe’!
I’m amazed that Illinois is in the bottom third.
Unemployment compensation is insurance we pay into and collect when the need arises; I don't consider it welfare.
Until it is abused or scammed, that is.
If I counted correctly, New Jersey stands as 35 out of 50. I’m surprised we’re that far down, what with the cities of Newark, Camden and Trenton in the mix.
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Me too, this can't be right.
It is both legal and illegal immigrants that are the problem. Facts on Immigration and Health Insurance :
http://www.cis.org/HealthCare-Immigration
In 2007, 33.2 percent of all immigrants (legal and illegal) did not have health insurance compared to 12.7 percent of native-born Americans.
Immigrants account for 27.1 percent of all those without health insurance. Immigrants are 12.5 percent of the nation’s total population.
There are 14.5 million immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) who lack health insurance. They account for 31.9 percent of the entire uninsured population. Immigrants and their children are 16.8 percent of the nation’s total population.
In 2007, 47.6 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children were either uninsured or on Medicaid compared to 25 percent of natives and their children.
Cultural factors may also contribute to the high rate of immigrant uninsurance. College-educated immigrants are twice as likely as college-educated natives to lack health insurance.
In an earlier study, the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that 64 percent of illegal immigrants were uninsured in 2006, accounting for one out of seven people without insurance. If the U.S.-born children (under 18) of illegal immigrants are included, they account for one out of six people without insurance.
It isn’t insurance. It is a transfer payment program just like every other welfare program. Any government effort that takes income from one person, and gives it to another as a “benefit”, is welfare.
Sure, you “pay into it”, just like SS and Medicare.
So where are the assets for the Unemployment “Insurance”, Social Security, and Medicare programs being kept?
....she was a hoochie coocher. Can you believe such great music was once in children’s cartoons? Betty Boop
With all due respect, I pay for homeowner's insurance, auto insurance, etc., but hope I never have to use them. I've always thought that way about unemployment. Maybe I'll have to rethink!
One person’s welfare or wasteful spending is another person’s national mandate.
Do we count Ag subsidies? Export subsidies? Tax loopholes? Regulatory favoritism?
I agree with you on unemployment comp. Most of those on comp are able to find a job within 1 week of losing their benefits. If the benefits are extended 6 months, it takes them 6 months longer to find a job.
There was a recent report that detailed over 3 million jobs in the US that are going begging with employers unable to find anyone to fill them. I see it weekdays where I work.
Last weekend I overhead 2 high level executives discussing their inability to staff up a project in which most positions were six figures. They were debating whether they should send the project to India where it could be staffed, or just kill it.
Repeatedly at the places I’ve consulted (Chicago & midwest) I’ve seen projects killed or sent to India for the sole reason that they could not be staffed here. People willing and able to do the work just could not be found.
>>Do we count Ag subsidies? Export subsidies? Tax loopholes? Regulatory favoritism?
I consider all of those a misuse of government power. I’m a conservative minarchist. I believe in having the minimum amount of government consistent with public order.
Your observations regarding the labor market are spot on.
Yesterday the construction workers on the big hospital expansion a block from my house started a strike. They admit that their demands are small and petty. But
they
“thought it was a good time for a strike.”
Apparently, if they don’t use up their strike benefits they lose them, in the same way that if some don’t use their vacation days or sick days, or their HSA, they lose it. So rather than lose it, they strike.
Actually, employers pay into the UI fund, not taxpayers directly. I suppose one could say that we still pay into it, since an employer could pay his workers more if he didn’t have to pay into the UI fund.
It’s not really insurance. That’s just a nice euphemism for another government program. Just think of all the state bureaucrats who are employed to run the thing. Abolish the whole mess of it, and the economy would improve, as would prospects for employment.
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