Posted on 08/13/2012 4:07:44 PM PDT by Sopater
A typical southern California couple, a school teacher married to a truck driver, for example, could easily qualify as wealthy if they purchased a home in a desirable neighborhood years ago. Hard to claim they couldn’t qualify for unemployment.
Any of ‘em Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson?!!
“Perhaps many people did not, I don’t know.”
I have lost employment a couple times in my life when I could have drawn unemployment and did not. At those times I was ‘too proud’ to claim it. If it were now, I would make the claim...I ‘earned’ it. And it was paid for by my employer.
I also feel very strongly that my Social Security ‘benefits’ are/were earned. My employer and I paid for the ‘benefits’ now being received. Had I been able to have that combined benefit put into a retirement account that paid real dividends, I would have much more in that account than I will ever see in what I get from Soc Sec. And there would still be a significant principle to pass on to heirs.
This would be bad for the way Govt works, of course, because there would be no FICA payments for them to steal and put into the general fund.
I wonder how many were cases of ID theft?
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