Like you I don’t let grass grow under my feet but, not everyone is a type A.
It is possible to wake up one day and learn you haven’t got a job and loads of bills.
We have a social net to help them bridge that gap. I’m all for helping others temporarily and sometimes a person needs to catch their breath as they wonder what they will do next.
In Silicon Valley you could be doing something complex one day and then find yourself as a waiter of a restaurant or full time at some job that doesn’t pay anywhere near your previous employment.
Try finding another high paying job while employed by a company that requires you on site 8 hours a day.
The fear people have is not being able to interview at the right company and replace their former income.
They aren’t mochers. They’re parents, care givers to a parent or trying to keep ahead of the medical bills for an ill or handicapped child.
I know people in those scenarios and no one would call them a slacker or a mooch.
I tell em take the checks and get back on your feet. You worked all these years and part of your wages went to unemployment, social security and disability. Hell, if you are disabled, due to a work injury, go get fixed and take the check while you heal.
For many workers50+ years old they have accumulated more than $200k of temporary disability in a bucket most people don’t realize they’ve paid into.
It’s there to help you through this period while you heal and it’s 100% your money, that you banked and is used before you take nibble at state/fed monies.
The obnoxious part is that money being yours is unfortunately not available as a right of heir. You can’t pass it on.
So take it, if you are injured.
Anyway, these, on unemployment, were formerly working full time and they aren’t lazy. Just looking for their next job to break their asses and take the crap invective they took from their last boss.
I don’t think they need to be insulted for a perception of being lazy. The fact they eligible for unemployment, demonstrates they do in fact work and probably hard like the rest of us.
I totally understand with what you are saying. I am not against someone to use the benefits that they paid into as I did for 8 weeks. Just as long as they are out looking for work and not using the system as an income source and exploiting the system.
It seems to be a trend for people to have their hand out and almost expect to be taken care of. Even when there are plentiful jobs out there, maybe not what they did or even maybe they are “over qualified” for that farm job or McDonalds job but it would get them off of the free handouts and back to being productive for the economy and not a drag on the economy.
Just saying!