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Desperation Grows as Unemployment Benefits End
New York Times ^ | August 2, 2010 | Michael Luo

Posted on 08/02/2010 3:18:07 PM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: UCFRoadWarrior

And get rid of AA, disallow frivolous lawsuits, stop bashing ‘big business’ and start actually punishing criminals.


61 posted on 08/02/2010 4:22:38 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: yetidog; Screaming_Gerbil

Not one of her 3 sons has a couch that mom can sleep on?


62 posted on 08/02/2010 4:30:24 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: dragnet2
You could lower the minimum wage $1.50 today, and it's not going to fix this economic disaster.

You are so right.. China and India will still pay less.

Maybe when there is no more consumers here that can afford even the cheap imports companies will realize it was a short term gain to save a few bucks in the 3rd world has a large cost

63 posted on 08/02/2010 4:36:33 PM PDT by RnMomof7 (sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me)
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To: Eagles6
Not one of her 3 sons has a couch that mom can sleep on?

Maybe one is in prison, one is homeless, and one is far away living in a mobile home without a phone?

Also there is the possibility that one of the sons is successful and has a happy home with a wife and kid(s) and thaT letting Mom stay may cause a lot of problems.

something I do not see mentioned as a possibility in these situations is that unfortunately the family member needing help may not be too easy to live with. Especially if Mom wants the other bum kids to move in with her. Or if she is an alcoholic Bipolar Manic depressive personality or some other type that gets out of control from time to time.

Of course, the three sons could all be bums without a place of their own and Mom spent all of her money trying to help them, and is now going to be broke and homeless herself. I think that's pretty likely.

It is kind of sad to think that she raised three sons and not one can help her in her time of need.

64 posted on 08/02/2010 4:50:32 PM PDT by Screaming_Gerbil (...he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one... Luke 22:36)
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To: Integrityrocks
If I were faced with her situation, I’d be spending my last $260 on printing up house cleaning and yard work fliers and passing them out door to door personally

lol...the illegals had that sewn up long ago...You're not going to beat their low, illegal pay...If you do, you'll be living in the streets without money for little things like cars, rent, and auto insurance etc....

Good luck with that.

65 posted on 08/02/2010 4:50:39 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Venturer
In 99 weeks she could have found some kind of job even if it was working for Molly Maid.

Yeah, but here's the thing: Her unemployment paid much better than working at Molly Maid.

If she would have lost her job at Molly Maid, she would have gotten the unemployment based on that job.

I don't blame these people for taking unemployment. The jobs simply aren't there. Employers are not hiring unemployed.

66 posted on 08/02/2010 4:51:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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To: reaganaut1

Part of thier plan of dependency and a threat, if you want those checks to keep on comin you know who to vote for, right? Can you think of one thing these creeps have done that benefits the American people?


67 posted on 08/02/2010 4:54:20 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Tolsti2
These people haven't a clue...Their living in the 1950s, or their all on government pensions, desperate for tax payers.

But, I would be the first to tell them to send their 19 year old daughters to go to work at burger king or chicken licken to work alongside the half drunk 41 year old illegal alien males...

68 posted on 08/02/2010 4:55:45 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2

The woman who cleans my house is not an illegal. Not even hispanic. She charges me $100 for 5 hours. She cleans at least 1, often times 2 houses a day. I think that is better than unemployment. She works her butt off and does a very good job. I think there are a lot of people who would pay more to actually be able to speak to and trust the people that are in their home.


69 posted on 08/02/2010 5:00:00 PM PDT by beandog
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To: RnMomof7
You are so right.. China and India will still pay less.

Of course I'm right...Some of these people here are living way in the past...

They still think, "Work hard and prosper".....

I hate to be blunt, but them days are gone for the most part....

Nowadays, your lucky to *keep* your job if ya still have one, regardless how freaking hard one works....

Sad, but true.

70 posted on 08/02/2010 5:04:10 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: beandog
The woman who cleans my house is not an illegal. Not even hispanic. She charges me $100 for 5 hours.

You pay someone $20 a freaking hour to clean your house? Does that come with medical benefits?

LOL!

What do ya pay your plumber, $200 per hour?

71 posted on 08/02/2010 5:07:25 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: ChocChipCookie
I’ve been expecting an increase in crime, but my theory is that most of these people who have been out of work for months and months aren’t the type who turn criminal. When my husband’s electrical business was floundering, he got discouraged, but nothing in a million years would have caused him to start burglarizing homes or holding up convenience stores. Most of these people just get more and more desperate, quietly. They sell off everything they can, cash in everything they can, and wake up each morning hoping for a miracle.

Eventually they will have cashed in every chip, borrowed all they can and slept on every couch that would have them and a miracle still won't arrive in the morning. What then? You can bet these folks won't just quietly starve to death. They'll find some way, any way, to put food in their bellies. That's when we're going to be in big trouble.

72 posted on 08/02/2010 5:09:07 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: dragnet2

First you complain that illegals undercut Americans, then you complain that I pay my house cleaner, who is not illegal, too much. Some people are never happy.

As for the plumber, if I need a plumber I will pay him what he charges. Plumbing is very important to me.

Funny, people call me cheap, I guess they haven’t met you yet.


73 posted on 08/02/2010 5:15:10 PM PDT by beandog
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To: reaganaut1

“But there needs to be shelter system so that people don’t starve or freeze.”

The Siren call of Siren calls.

Why do you think they are allowing/helping this to happen? Just so you, and many like you, will spout this nonsense.

THEY NEED TO GET THE F$$$ OUT OF THE WAY SO AMERICANS CAN CREATE THEIR OWN SHELTER AND WARMTH.

Wake up and smell the subversion!


74 posted on 08/02/2010 5:16:19 PM PDT by Boucheau
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To: freedomfiter2

There’s something very strange about a person working and also at her age going to school in NYC, losing a job, then moving to TN, giving up and then moving to VT. The article doesn’t say that she did any of this moving because of the prospects of a job....just moved on. Why not stay in one place? She has a car and can look for work by just driving around. She obviously isn’t accomplishing anything by staying in a motel and sending out resumes. She has three sons that are not in a position to help her? I would say she probably hasn’t been a responsible person as far as her sons are concerned. There are some people who just don’t settle down and think if they’re roaming, they are accomplishing something. Kinda like the man in the WH - because he’s talking, he thinks he’s accomplishing something.

I think everyone here can feel for this woman but I think I would stay in one place if I were her. It costs $$$$ she doesn’t have to move around the country and stay in motels without any prospects for work whatsoever. Why is there no one in her life who will do anything for her other than send her some unexpected $$$$? No friends/relatives with an extra bedroom willing to lend a hand for awhile?

I’m perplexed....


75 posted on 08/02/2010 5:17:13 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Screaming_Gerbil

Yeah who knows? Maybe she wasn’t that nice a mother.


76 posted on 08/02/2010 5:18:29 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: Drew68
Eventually they will have cashed in every chip, borrowed all they can and slept on every couch

I have never seen so many Americans so hateful of tens of millions of other Americans who have been economically gang raped by this meat grinding economy...

Ten of millions have lost their businesses, jobs, careers, investments, savings, retirements, and the very roofs over their heads...

These threads are beyond believe...full of dip sh*ts that believe most Americans are nothing but lazy no good couch hounds....

What do you think all these millions of Americans were doing just 4 or so years ago? Oh, that's right, they were like everyone else, paying their bills and working hard...

Ya think 20 plus million Americans suddenly became lazy?

Gezzzz...

77 posted on 08/02/2010 5:22:16 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: beandog
First you complain that illegals undercut Americans

Ya think I'm kidding you?

then you complain that I pay my house cleaner, who is not illegal, too much.

You're the guy paying someone $20 per hour to clean your freaking house. No offense, but you need to have your head examined.

What I'm tell you professor, is in most regions of the U.S., the illegals have taken over the house cleaning industry, along with many other services industries and they don't get $20.00 per hour to dust and vacuum....lol

78 posted on 08/02/2010 5:28:00 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: freedomfiter2
She is in a rough situation and she probably can’t fix it alone. God and a good church could help.

My church is stretched. We help our own needy members first and there is some help for others but not much. My Pastor tells me that he gets calls almost every day requesting food. He has to tell them no and adds that we have to take care of our own members first.

If this woman attends church regularly she'd be more likely to get help.

79 posted on 08/02/2010 5:28:54 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Nobody reads tag lines)
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To: dragnet2

I think the problem is the resentment that those who work hard read about those who refuse to take jobs because it would affect their unemployment benefits.

You can use any job to be a springboard to something bigger and better. You can’t use unemployment as a springboard to anything.


80 posted on 08/02/2010 5:34:13 PM PDT by mommyq
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