Yes indeed. My husband and I have been unemployed for a little over a year. We spent all of our savings trying to start a business and failed due to poor timing (buying had stopped at that time.) We lost everything. It all went into the economy.
Last month a venture capitalist we had contacted before, finally gave us a call. We were up and running in two days. Within 3 months, we will have paid more taxes than we took in unemployment. If it hadn’t have been for unemployment, we would have been in a homeless shelter, another home to add to the repo number, and still sucking soup in the line.
You idiots that think people should starve in this economy... hard-working people, such as this family, that if the truth were known probably paid more taxes in our lifetime than some of you “produced” disgust me. You are green with envy that some of us have suffered with the measly check we received once a week that just barely kept us afloat so that we could get back on our feet.
At least I have the satisfaction of knowing we made it... and many of you will be getting your just deserts someday.
I’m with you. There’s ivory tower types all over here saying unemployment benefits are ruining their lives. Well, if they gotta ever really need them they’ll have a quick change of heart.
I’m suffering through similar dumps now, but I’ve mostly worked for 13 years fairly well except for awhile after 9/11 when the tech sector bombed here.
Also, I don’t think it’s supposed to be a ‘stimulus’. That was really stupid for Pelosi to say in general. It’s a lifeline, plain and simple.
“You idiots that think people should starve in this economy... hard-working people, such as this family, that if the truth were known probably paid more taxes in our lifetime than some of you “produced” disgust me. You are green with envy that some of us have suffered with the measly check we received once a week that just barely kept us afloat so that we could get back on our feet.
At least I have the satisfaction of knowing we made it... and many of you will be getting your just deserts someday.”
I understand you and millions of others are/were in a difficult situation. We have a well established UI system to provide some level of help during difficult economic times. The issue is not the basic UI system but the seemingly endless extensions at least for some.
I believe that these extensions are bad policy. Of course, we have a government running on bad economic policies. The bad policies are feeding the unemployment problem. These extensions are morphing into a huge new welfare program essentially a job or paycheck entitlement program. Extensions to UI encourage recipients to stop looking for work. You are undoubtedly not in that category but many others are gaming the system. We cannot afford a costly new entitlement program. Government cannot provide a paycheck entitlement.
Your story may be nice but it still represents theft from the producers and transfers it to non-producers.
Explain to me how it is that in any other time, the standard benefit for unemployment insurance is 26 weeks? Why should that be extended to 52, 99, 126 weeks for anyone? Will future recipients be entitled to 126 weeks?
I am tired of having a gun jammed in my ribs and the product of my labors stolen from me to serve some noble purpose like providing you and others like you with food, fuel, or whatever.
I have worked every day from the age of 17 and NEVER, EVER, collected unemployment in 30+ years of working. Went to college at night and worked two to three crappy jobs simultaneously to make ends meet in some pretty unattractive places that you would never think of going doing work that you would never think of doing.
But to you, I’m just a big meanie and a meal ticket.
I do think people should starve. It would teach them to plan better. Yourself included.
Your business’ failure was yours, timing included. You continued to throw your savings into a failing enterprise instead of cutting your losses and using those savings to cover your living expenses. You gambled your savings and lost, and you expect the taxpayers to prop you up.
Yeah, I’m green with envy alright. /sarc.
As for my just deserts, I have them every day because I earned them myself, not from some venture capitalist.