While I empathize with those that are truly trying to find work, for the vast majority this extension will just lessen the urgency to become employed. It’s human nature. Procrastination with compensation is pretty hard to beat.
Well, the economy the way it is, and it does not have to be that way, I can understand the extensions but they are only good for a stop gap measure. There are truly people out there that are looking hard but find they are still unemployed or underemployed. Trouble is that there are bums out there who take advantage of it. Well, for now only, we need to do this but overall this is really not good at all. We need to lower taxes and regulations and foster a more business friendly climate so we can bring more jobs back instead of paying people not to work. That is the key, trouble is, with Obongo in office and a Democratic Congress, their chances of heeding this advice is about the same as me benchpressing a 1968 Buick.
1. The very compassionate Family Leave Act (can you have the leave if you do not have a job?)
2. The equalizing Money Back Act, that gave back taxes to non-payers.
3. The Green Tech & Sustainable Body of Laws, that are voluntarily mandated, directly or indirectly, on almost all companies.
4. Hundreds of Laws, Acts, Dispositions, created after congress become D in 2006, with the face value of people protector, but really decreasing the availability of jobs.
Here’s a novel idea folks, and this is what I have done to secure a job after I was laid off.
I was informed last July that I would be laid off in November.
I applied for a particular job in September, secured the position in November, but I had one problem: I wasn’t laid off yet.
I didn’t actually lose my job until February of this year.
Here’s the kicker: I would collect severance pay, so I told my new employer that I would work NO CHARGE until my severance pay ran out.
Then I would be put on the payroll.
And that’s how I got my new job.