High Stakes For US Families Losing Jobless Benefit

AP Via Boston.com ^ | December 28, 2013 | AMY TAXIN and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER

[nascarnation]

I don't buy anything in Chicago so I cannot get charged sales tax in that crap-hole Chicago where the Sales Tax is at or near 10%.

So it's not just a coincidence the Ill/Indiana border is full of gas stations, tobacco stores, etc on the Indiana side?

[CommieCutter]

It’s going to be borderline old Soviet media.

It has been since this idiot got elected the first time.

[riri]

after losing their T-shirt company in June following a dispute with an investor.

That sounded like it was a little dubious, at best, the begin with.

[usconservative]

ROFL! Nope, not a coincidence at all. I suspect after Shitcago raised the cigarette tax again last week you’ll be seeing alot more traffic on that side of the border very soon.

[Straight Vermonter]

Unemployment benefits pay less than they made, and those collecting don't seem to have a problem with that. But Work for less? GASP!

People definitely have a mindset that if they are making $1500/mo on benefits why should they work to make $2000/mo?

They look at it like they are working all month to earn just %500.

[Jane Long]

I didn't know that business owners could collect unemployment.

I've never heard of that, either. Maybe it's one of those *newly deemed law* parts of 0DeathCare. Wouldn't surprise me.

Bew hew that these folks might have to sell their big screen TV's. Breaks my heart. Not.

[kearnyirish2]

I hear you; when I started I was surprised at how much money I still had in my pockets when I’d get home from work (and lunch wasn’t costing nearly what you were paying in Chicago).

[LibsRJerks]

Yep — he’s right! Radiologgists look at the films, and don’t have to directly BE with people ...it is pretty cool.

[sarasmom]

ding ding ding-I think we have another winner!

I haven't had a vacation in years, because I needed those days for excess sick time pay.

I wasn't “deprived” of vacation, just very lucky that my employer let me use those vacation days as and when I needed them.
I sell my skills and time to my employer.In the last few years, and under the current economic malaise, it is harder to negotiate in good faith for a raise.

26 weeks is far too long to draw “benefits” for merely refusing to work.

The “entitlement mentality” is not just the uneducated and unskilled. I see an even larger number of ill-educated and semi-skilled con artists.

[gogeo]

Now, what evidence to you have to offer to support your belief that all long term unemployed are just moochers who don't want to work?

You are the person speaking in absolutes, not me.

You say that "The overwhelming majority of the unemployed are out there every day trying to find a job, literally any job.".

The word "moochers" is yours, not mine.

There's a whole reality that exists between the two you do not seem to wish to consider.

I have no expectation that someone will be out "every day, trying to find a job, literally any job." It flies in the face of experience and reason.

Are there moochers? Probably.

I think the great majority lies somewhere in the middle...somewhere along a spectrum of kicking themselves because they feel like failures, and those who make excuses. Both deny reality.