I have hard core experience with being unemployed and underemployed... Beck is somewhat right and a lot wrong... After 911 my 20 year business died - customers evaporated over the next year or two... Bottom line as one poster points out - if you are over educated or over experienced for available jobs - not likely you will get the low level job... it just doesn’t happen often...
During those bad years, I worked as Cable TV service cut off guy, in a retail electronics chain, detailed corporate jet aircraft, pulled water wells, installed septic tanks... and none of the jobs paid enough but to barely survive. It was total luck that I got back into a professional job - and it is not that great...
I like Glenn Beck but his personal experience is far outdated... It is a tough place out there right now.
On the other hand, extension after extension of unemployment benefits can be counterproductive. Once in a rut - you may stay there unless stimulated - pushed - shoved to do something else.
I will remind you folks - if one is self-employed and goes bust due to economic conditions beyond one’s control - Tough Stuff ... formerly self-employed folks GET NO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS -— zero, zip, zilch - nada...you are on your own from day one... find a way to make some money or starve and become homeless... bottom line...
It happened to me and it was a tough - hard time... no one bailed me out - period...
And here we are, with enough put together to be online making comments.
I have been self employed for 18 years. I signed checks totaling tens of thousands for unenjoyment yet I could not collect either.
I have spent the past year working for nine dollars an hour doing something I “hate”.
Theres no work out there for 50 plus year old construction workers who can run circles around most owners and everyone working for them.
Tell Beck to get the D of C to bring back all the jobs they have shipped overseas while they collect superfat paychecks with superb healthcare and one hundred thousand dollar pensions for life. Screww all of them/
Folks who have worked hard all their lives are being screwed everyway possible by predators and parasites in fed,state,county,city,town.gov.
For myself, hope and change = white folks like myself seeing to it that the District of Criminals is totally destroyed before they murder hundreds of millions of Americans as I believe with all my heart that that is their intention.