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I’ve been looking for well over a year and every single day I search all of the job listings and many of them are long expired or fake!

I don’t think many realize the toll it takes on a person when day after day, you search for a job, apply and submit your resume only to not hear back or get a rejection letter.

It wears you down mentally and emotionally.

Around here, people are lucky to get a job making $8-10 per hour.

I'm surprised at Beck, but then again, he, on occasion, can “open mouth and insert foot”. His statement was a “one size fits all” scenario and that just isn't the case. And disparaging others who are going through a tough time is not the Charitable thing to do. It isn't a teachable moment. And he certainly isn't my big brother or father. He has been promoting Faith, Hope and Charity. And he hits the mark often and true. However, I don't like when he gets on a soap box like this in a disparaging tone. Of course, reformed “drunks, smokers, liars, addicts of all sorts” seem to slip occasionally into pontificating about others woes. He should think back to when he was in a world of shit as an active alcoholic. Maybe then he'll be humbled a bit to stop denigrating , by way of generalizing, everyone who is out of work for a long period of time.

I'll bet some if not many long term unemployed didn't expect the government to shovel out more unemployment checks. That move was political and a CYA move by this lame administration that hasn't done anything to stimulate and encourage job creation in the private sector.

As for those in this thread who are ridiculing others; just pray your ass isn't in a bread line some day for whatever reason beyond your control. Not all those who are unemployed, even for a long time, are to blame. A little hand up and encouraging word goes a long way.