Posted on 12/29/2012 10:14:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Imagine that you meet a young woman and after introductions, you ask, "What do you do?"
"I'm unemployed," she says.
"That's too bad. I hope you find a job soon."
Nothing unusual so far, but the conversation is about to take an interesting turn.
"I'm not looking for a job. Being unemployed is what I do."
The look on your face shows your bewilderment. What on earth is she talking about?
Welcome to the new United States of America, the Obama model that you voted to give another chance even though he didn't earn it. Yesterday, he said,
"So if we don't see an agreement between the two leaders in the Senate, I expect a bill to go on the floor-and I have asked Senator Reid to do this-put a bill on the floor that makes sure that taxes on middle class families don't go up, that unemployment insurance is still available for 2 million people, and that lays the groundwork then for additional deficit reduction and economic growth steps that we can take in the New Year."
I suppose that if you have never had to earn a living you wonder why anyone should have to. That's the problem with freebees. People who get them never learn to appreciate the importance of being able to take care of themselves. They think that their mere existence is their contribution to society.
Several years ago, I read a study about unintentionally creating dependence, and one of its findings made a lasting impression on me. The study concluded that when parents continue giving their children money after they should be taking care of themselves, it destroys their interest in ever becoming independent. The most shocking finding to me was how little money it takes to destroy their initiative.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Barry and his ‘RATS have made unemployment benefits the gateway to a “disability” check. Not good.
Becoming?! LOL!
We have a choice in this ~ A free America with full employment ~ and no Democrats, or an enslaved America with partial employment ~ run by the Democrats.
Quibbling over 99 weeks, or codependency, or whatever else you can think of is not really the game we are in. Those are petty details.
I think I'd go so far as to eliminate coupon clipping as an acceptable employment category ~ either actively manage your investments or go to France.
And now you see why I want the fiscal cliff to happen.
The flip side of it is envying people who do strive and have more. The Democrats are trying to provoke people to that and it certainly seems to be part of both Barack and Michelle’s own worldview. I’m not sure they are successful with that .Bill Buckley, who obviously had plenty, made the observation that people generally strove for a standard of living 10’s of thousands higher than their own, and didn’t worry too much about super rich.
I’m glad I just got off of it, got a job that pays in the mid 30’s, it’s for 9 months but a good chance of becoming permanent. This is the best paying job I’ve ever had. BTW, I know from experience, it is hard surviving on unemployment, it is a slow version of financial suicide. Tell you the truth, the first two or three weeks of unemployment seems like a vacation but after that, I start getting stir crazy and wanting to do something as well as advance economically. Unless you’re a seasonal worker of some time knowing when you’re going to be recalled to your job, camping out on unemployment is a bad idea.
"I'm not looking for a job. Being unemployed is what I do."
She should have added, "I vote for a living. What do you do?" - tom
My brother-in-law has been trying to get his 26 year-old son-in-law to get a job for almost ten years. He has a paper route that pays $200/month. “If I work any more than that they start deducting from my food stamps.” I asked him how the kid finances his obvious alcoholism and meth habit. “He breaks in to peoples homes to finance those.” That’s going to be somewhat of a hardship now that his latest B&E has landed him an ankle bracelet... And I guess that’s the end of his paper route, too.
My brother-in-law has been trying to get his 26 year-old son-in-law to get a job for almost ten years. He has a paper route that pays $200/month. “If I work any more than that they start deducting from my food stamps.” I asked him how the kid finances his obvious alcoholism and meth habit. “He breaks in to peoples homes to finance those.” That’s going to be somewhat of a hardship now that his latest B&E has landed him an ankle bracelet... And I guess that’s the end of his paper route, too.
My brother-in-law has been trying to get his 26 year-old son-in-law to get a job for almost ten years. He has a paper route that pays $200/month. “If I work any more than that they start deducting from my food stamps.” I asked him how the kid finances his obvious alcoholism and meth habit. “He breaks in to peoples homes to finance those.” That’s going to be somewhat of a hardship now that his latest B&E has landed him an ankle bracelet... And I guess that’s the end of his paper route, too.
My brother-in-law has been trying to get his 26 year-old son-in-law to get a job for almost ten years. He has a paper route that pays $200/month. “If I work any more than that they start deducting from my food stamps.” I asked him how the kid finances his obvious alcoholism and meth habit. “He breaks in to peoples homes to finance those.” That’s going to be somewhat of a hardship now that his latest B&E has landed him an ankle bracelet... And I guess that’s the end of his paper route, too.
My brother-in-law has been trying to get his 26 year-old son-in-law to get a job for almost ten years. He has a paper route that pays $200/month. “If I work any more than that they start deducting from my food stamps.” I asked him how the kid finances his obvious alcoholism and meth habit. “He breaks in to peoples homes to finance those.” That’s going to be somewhat of a hardship now that his latest B&E has landed him an ankle bracelet... And I guess that’s the end of his paper route, too.
I asked him how the kid finances his obvious alcoholism and meth habit. “He breaks in to peoples homes to finance those.”
He must ba treat to live next door to...
Five times is the charm! :)
“Becoming?! LOL!”
Really; without the extension of unemployment benefits the government would be overthrown. The problem for the government isn’t the lazy slacker (they can be bought); it is the hard-working people who want jobs while there are none.
You have five Brother In Laws with 26 year old Sons who are Criminals?
What are the odds?
What are the odds?
Pretty darned good when you post to an FR thread.
“”I’m not looking for a job. Being unemployed is what I do.””
The ‘rats are in the process of transforming “unemployment benefits” into the “new welfare”.
Go to school, grow up, graduate, find no job, and join the ranks of the permanently “unemployed”...
Once done, they will proclaim, “look how many we got off the ‘welfare rolls’..”
No sh## thats thier plan
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