Posted on 12/28/2013 3:05:47 PM PST by lbryce
The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage work after already slashing household budgets and pawning personal possessions to make ends meet.
Greg and Barbara Chastain of Huntington Beach, Calif., put their two teenagers on the school lunch program and cut back on dining out after losing their T-shirt company in June following a dispute with an investor.
They've exhausted their state unemployment benefits and now that the federal extensions are gone, unless they find jobs the couple plan to take their children out of their high school in January and relocate 50 miles east where a relative owns property so they can save on rent.
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And on top of that thanks to the dumb-o-crats they have the great obamaripoff to contend with.
One thing people can also do is to tap into the magic that is the church and garage sale.
They can find any and everything they need there for next to nothing. Clothes, appliances, shoes, tools and more.
$20.00 can nab you a whole wardrobe for the year!
Well, the Second Coming might very well be taking place in Hawaii this week but Mooshelle will have absolutely no part in it, I guarantee it.
My son lost his high paying job ,in the medical devices industry, in June. He worked his butt off networking to find another job and found it humiliating to have to collect unemployment. He thought that the people at the agency were dumber than dirt and were giving him suggestions on how to find work. Like he told them I know how to look for a job and if one doesn’t come around soon I’ll dig ditches til I find the right job. He started his new job with another medical company on Dec. 1st.
“They’ve exhausted their state unemployment benefits and now that the federal extensions are gone, unless they find jobs the couple plan to take their children out of their high school in January and relocate 50 miles east where a relative owns property so they can save on rent.”
Imagine that! Relying on family INSTEAD of the government. What is this world coming to?
Greg and Barbara Chastain are doing what millions of families have done over time. We didn’t always have government to feed, clothe and entertain us. They are showing by their sacrifices that there is another way, and they will find more self respect in the process.
What I have said is not said philosophically, but from personal experience. I was born shortly after the depression in the early part of the last century.
I *have* a good job, and *I* don’t ‘dine out’.
Well, this is what you do in a depression. Putting the still solvent portion of the population into that condition by taking their resources to prop up the insolvent is not helping anything at all and depressing the economy further thus hurting everyone outside of the government sponsored finance community.
and taking minimum wage work
And a purpose of welfare/unemployment comp is to spare one from having to work for less than he would like? That is destructive on more than one level.
Headline next week:
“Millions who could not find a job for many months (years) all of a sudden find jobs after unemployment runs out”
Spiked headline next week.
How can the republicans justify it after spending all week talking about how good the Obama/Democrat majority economy is now and how there is no longer any need for UE extensions because of the economic boom.
It’s an easy job market.
Log onto Rigzone.net to see what I mean.
The oil patch gets more new *jobs* each day than resumes, most of which pay 6 figures and require no high school diploma.
Little or no training. $100,000+ salaries.
Pause...
You see, the problem isn’t a lack of jobs. The problem is that people have learned to milk unemployment, social security, Section 8 free rent, disability, aid for dependent mothers with children, and a host of welfare programs such that they don’t have to **MOVE** to find a job.
Why work?!
Ever see “The Grapes of Wrath” movie?
Depression-era farming family gets hit by the dustbowl (can’t grow crops there any longer) and packs up to move to California (gasp... “did that mean Man say MOVE?!”) because California was hiring more grape pickers (more jobs) than it had applicants.
MOVE
TO
WHERE
THE
JOBS
ARE
LOCATED
This is not rocket science. The unemployed are just too soft...too spoiled...to move to find work.
Sam Kineson did a great skit on that mentality back in the 1980’s where he pointed out that the best thing the West could do for starving Africans was to buy them suitcases to “MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!”
...most people are stupid. And lazy.
And we live in an Idiocracy.
The jobs are aplenty...they just aren’t in the dead Rustbelt cities like Flint, Michigan.
WWW.Rigzone.net
No more excuses. Go get a job. “That mean man wants us to *WORK* in snowy North Dakota.”
rigzone.COM
Thanks...
Unfortunately, that was exactly what stuck out at me.
If neither my wife and I had a job, there is no way I would spend even a nickel at McDonalds.
To think they were collecting benefits and eating out is offensive to me.
Huh? I read this and scratched my head as it makes no sense. If anything, having benefits end will make people more motivated to look for jobs, not less.
Shouldn't they have moved to the cheaper place about month 2 or 3 of no employment?
That way, the kids would have been enrolled in a school for the whole year, or they could have home schooled and moved.
I guess because I have moved many times during my adult life, I am less fearful of starting over elsewhere than some others.There are two of them. One couldn't have moved for a job elsewhere first?
I wonder who they voted for....
Schwans is expensive. Don’t go that route. Shop at a canned food warehouse or where the restaurants get their supplies in your area. I do!
In this horrendous job market, if I were to become unemployed tomorrow, I’d be on six interviews by midweek and be employed by Friday. That’s because I took the time (shudder) to work hard (puke puke puke) and become excellently skilled in my field. Then I worked (OMG) really hard (NFW!!!) and developed a great reputation around town.
Yeah I noticed that too, I lost my job the day I turned 60 and my home was destroyed by Ike. I have not eaten out once in the last five years. Does pizza to go count as eating out? Prices are going crazy too, used to be you could do an all you can eat lunch (Chinese, Italian) for five bucks, now the local roach coach wants 7 bucks for Mexican. The hell with that, I cook at home.
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