Posted on 07/16/2009 8:14:55 PM PDT by dragnet2
I was speaking with a guy back home that makes more on unemployment in take home than he did after taxes while working. $12.50/hr doesn’t go very far after taxes with a wife and an kid, $500.00 a week isn’t a living wage.
Can’t argue there. I bet alot of Democrats are starting to miss the Bush years in spite of themselves...probably not the hard core libs but the blue collar working class who aren’t doing so well under Obamunism. There are still jobs but competition is fierce and some people are forced to adjust downward, as you said, can’t be choosy now.
The max you can get on unemployment in Texas is 392 per week.
And at that you still have to pay the Taxes, SS, Medicare etc out of the $ 392.00
Are you kidding me!
That is not unemployment, that is welfare.
At what point does receiving unemployment become welfare in your opinion?
Why do you ask?
Are you going to attempt to try to justify someone being on unemployment for over a year and getting yet another extension?
Ummm.... Guess I’m not up on latest acronyms, but I have no idea what COPD might mean.
I was shocked to see that my Texas has been paying 59 weeks of unemployment benefits.
I was cut loose from my job at a defense contractor here one week before Christmas in 1970; three weeks after marrying #2 and moving into a year leased apt. with two six year old girls. .......I opted to go full time to community college at night (though wife worked days), just so I would be available for full time day employment and be able to go to the Texas Employment Commission (the name at the time) to sign up for job interviews.
At that time, I think the maximum period for drawing unemployment pay was only about 2-3 months, and the early ‘70s were not good for job hunting.
Why in the hell have the legislatures extended such benefits to over a year??? That only encourages those who are able to work to loaf on the taxpayers’ dollars.
Rick Perry, like Bobby Jindal and the MS Governor, refused the portion of the so-called “stimulus” money that would apply to unemployment benefits. Why? Because they all knew it was only for a limited time and then the State would have to use their own funds to keep the benefits flowing, which would necessitate taxing of residents.
Home for me isn’t Texas and never will be.
Just reporting what the guy told me.
Because you made the comment.
When asked a question about your own comment, you responded with a question.
Feel free to answer the question with an answer, instead of a question.
I would assume your comment implies there are a whole lot of lazy people in Texas, that would rather receive unemployment benefits than work?
Just put it on California’s tab, they’ll never notice..
In return, Cal will will send several hundred IOUs to the Texas unemployed, with a “Hang in there” note of support...
What did everyone think would happen when American businesses by the thousands exported their companies off shore for dirt cheap labor. While at the same time, our own government imported millions of low wage illegal workers that think company benefits mean two 15 minute breaks.
Even Stevie Wonder could see how this would end.
“What did everyone think would happen when American businesses by the thousands exported their companies off shore for dirt cheap labor.”
ANOTHER MISCONCEPTION....
It is SO MUCH MORE than just labor costs.
It is:
OVER-TAXATION...
OVER-UNIONIZATION...
Inane Government Regulations...
Expensive Enviro regulations...
And UNLIMITED CIVIL LIABILITY...
Those, when combined with the Standardized Shipping Container, make it FAR cheaper to manufacture most anything offshore now. And if you think Cap-n-trade, as well as massive healthcare costs fostered on to the manufacturer are going to help, you are kidding yourself.
You don’t have to look any farther than the CFL Lightbulb Legislation to see what the effects of 30+ years of Democrat policy has done to US manufacturing.
We get cute curly lightbulbs that are going to require hundreds of billions of dollars to clean out of landfills in 20 years, and it only cost us 35,000 good-paying, mostly union jobs manufacturing lightbulbs.
NO ONE will dare to make these in America, because of the long-term environmental liability exposure to using Mercury in the manufacturing process. And that process is already killing Chinese workers, but don’t expect to see that reported by 60 Minutes anytime soon.
I agree with what you said...
Ya wanna know what the biggest cause in this melt down is?
One word...
"Government"
BTW, were just heared on a FOX affiliate station:
Texas unemployment has just reached 7.5 percent.
The change just keeps coming.
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