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1 posted on 12/29/2012 10:14:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Barry and his ‘RATS have made unemployment benefits the gateway to a “disability” check. Not good.


2 posted on 12/29/2012 10:17:36 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (U.S. elections have become nothing but another cheap ripoff of American Idol.)
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Becoming?! LOL!


3 posted on 12/29/2012 10:21:40 AM PST by TADSLOS (I took extra credit at the School of Hard Knocks)
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And now you see why I want the fiscal cliff to happen.


5 posted on 12/29/2012 10:28:21 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! [You can vote Democrat when you're dead]...)
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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.


6 posted on 12/29/2012 10:28:37 AM PST by gusopol3
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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.


7 posted on 12/29/2012 10:32:01 AM PST by Nowhere Man (Whitey, I miss you so much. Take care, pretty girl. (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012))
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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."

She should have added, "I vote for a living. What do you do?" - tom

8 posted on 12/29/2012 10:51:24 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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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.


9 posted on 12/29/2012 10:54:45 AM PST by FredZarguna (Thanks Dr. Eastman' wherever you are...)
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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.


10 posted on 12/29/2012 10:55:15 AM PST by FredZarguna (2.9979 times ten to the eight meters per second: not just a good idea, it's The Law.)
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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.


11 posted on 12/29/2012 10:55:52 AM PST by FredZarguna (2.9979 times ten to the eight meters per second: not just a good idea, it's The Law.)
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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.


12 posted on 12/29/2012 10:57:07 AM PST by FredZarguna (2.9979 times ten to the eight meters per second: not just a good idea, it's The Law.)
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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.


13 posted on 12/29/2012 10:58:08 AM PST by FredZarguna (2.9979 times ten to the eight meters per second: not just a good idea, it's The Law.)
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“”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’..”


19 posted on 12/29/2012 11:26:55 AM PST by Road Glide
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No sh## thats thier plan


20 posted on 12/29/2012 11:55:22 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Being Breitbart)
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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.


22 posted on 12/29/2012 1:17:46 PM PST by FredZarguna (2.9979 times ten to the eight meters per second: not just a good idea, it's The Law.)
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The LAW OF EFFECT shows us that you generally receive more of the behavior that you reward and less of the behavior that you punish. If you punish people for working by putting high taxes on them, you will have fewer people working. If you reward people with unemployment for not working, you will have fewer people working.


23 posted on 12/29/2012 1:23:20 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Lack of manufacturing and regulations against private property rights (real property) caused the dependence problem. Get ready to join them. At least 20-30 million or so layoffs and many more “haircuts” (pensions) to go. Only a few of the most left-thinking rich will continue with cash flow from Uncle Samantha.

Have fun. Enjoy the slide.


29 posted on 12/29/2012 2:25:52 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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I was a teller at a bank, in early 2010, and one day one of our customers came in and was chatting with the manager. The manager asked how his daughter was doing, and the customer said she’d been laid off from her job. The manager said that was too bad, and the customer said that she was getting unemployment benefits that were almost what she’d made before, so she wasn’t even bothering looking for another job. She just hung out doing what she wanted to do, but getting paid for it, so her Dad figured she’d continue to be unemployed as long as the benefits continued.


31 posted on 12/29/2012 5:00:31 PM PST by SuziQ
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I’ve mentioned here before that I’m a volunteer triage interviewer for a local food/clothing bank.

A very common response when I ask an interviewee, “Do you have a job,” is, “Don’t need a job, I got unemployment.” Or, the alternative, “Don’t need a job, I got unemployment and I applied for SSI.”

It is interesting that, of all the dependency encouraging programs at his disposal, nobama always talks about extending unemployment “benefits.”

God, help our country, please?


33 posted on 12/30/2012 10:09:19 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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States have cut unemployment to 52 weeks. They have no money to pay longer than that.


37 posted on 12/30/2012 11:26:46 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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