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Dems Prepare Unemployment Benefits Plan
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Posted on 12/19/2002 5:17:26 PM PST by RCW2001
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posted on
12/19/2002 5:17:26 PM PST
by
RCW2001
To: RCW2001
Unemployment benefits help when one is laid off, but they also provide a disincentive to find work. It might be a good idea if we modified the system so that any paid-out benefits are repaid from a worker's future income tax refunds. You'd still get the benefits if you need them, but you'd be incurring an obligation that would have to be paid back. That would encourage people to find work as soon as possible instead of treating unemployment benefits as some sort of paid vacation. You'd be able to avoid paying them back if you managed to avoid ever accruing a tax refund, but realistically, few people are attentive enough to manage their affairs that closely.
To: RCW2001
The Dem's need to take care of the people whom they have denied an education.
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posted on
12/19/2002 5:25:42 PM PST
by
paguch
To: RCW2001
Dems Prepare Unemployment Benefits Plan
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This is becaoming a real task in bipartison cooperation. The Republicans are preparing the unemployment with their kook immigration and trade policies whilde the Democrats are subsidizing the consequences. What a country!
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posted on
12/19/2002 5:27:41 PM PST
by
RLK
To: John Jorsett
" Unemployment benefits help when one is laid off, but they also provide a disincentive to find work. It might be a good idea if we modified the system so that any paid-out benefits are repaid from a worker's future income tax refunds. You'd still get the benefits if you need them, but you'd be incurring an obligation that would have to be paid back. That would encourage people to find work as soon as possible instead of treating unemployment benefits as some sort of paid vacation. You'd be able to avoid paying them back if you managed to avoid ever accruing a tax refund, but realistically, few people are attentive enough to manage their affairs that closely."
Food for thought and forward thinking.Kudos.
To: John Jorsett
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The majority of the unemployed are white collar technical and skilled folk. Most are between the ages of 35 and 45.
Do you really think that any Engineers, IT Professionals, CAD operators, Software Programmers; Bio-Genetitists, Physists, and Chemists...who are 40 years old...
with families...
holding degrees that become obsolete within 6 months...
want to have over a year of unemployment on their resume? Rush is usually correct, but NOT when it comes to Degreed Technical Professionals who face obsolescence that is directly proportional to the amount of time they are unemployed. Yes, a Pipefitter. He can still fit pipes after being unemployed after a Year. Yes, a Radio Talk Show Host... he can still host talk shows after being unemployed for a year. Yes, a Baker can still bake bread after being unemployed after a year. But not a degreed technical professional in an industry with a technical obsolence half-life.
That is the issue. The many technically unemployed who are now becomming obsolete.
Trust me, all of us are screeching to get work. There just isn't any.
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posted on
12/19/2002 5:44:47 PM PST
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
We would have jobs if we would just agree to work for the going (India) rate of 500 USD per month...
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posted on
12/19/2002 5:47:33 PM PST
by
Karsus
To: vannrox
We are toast.
Our jobs and our wages are not coming back before there is no need for us.
Downsize, and find something else you love to do, of course for one third the salary, if you are lucky.
We have taken our hobby farm and are going to make a go of it in the beef industry, while taking whatever part time work becomes available.
I know we have contributed at least a $2000 hit to this years holiday shopping, multiply by 1 million and you can see why the season is slow.
Good luck.
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posted on
12/19/2002 5:56:07 PM PST
by
dtel
To: RCW2001
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posted on
12/19/2002 5:56:19 PM PST
by
Bob J
To: vannrox
Rush is usually correct, but ...
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Rush is very entertaining but is supficial and has a feather up his behind.
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posted on
12/19/2002 6:02:08 PM PST
by
RLK
To: vannrox
“You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit.”
- Death of a Salesman
To: vannrox
You are soooo right. I'm having a hard time convincing a county trustee that there is nothing that pays over 7.00 an hour in my area available. He thinks it's so easy to go out and find work.
I'd like to see him find work in this age where our jobs are either going south to Mexico, or far east to Taiwan or Indo-China.
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posted on
12/19/2002 7:49:28 PM PST
by
mrb1960
To: dtel
The tech industry in this country is headed for a graveyard rendezvous with our former manufacturing capability.
The future of America is burger flippers and trial lawyers.
To: RCW2001
"Bush, after declining to get involved in the issue for months, said in his weekly radio address that extending benefits should be "a first order of business" for the new Congress."Limited government George never stops.
Vote socialist, vote Bush
To: Uncle Bill
It's triangulation.
To: danny_boy1
It's strangulation, then a giant sucking sound, then death.
To: Uncle Bill
Vote socialist, vote Bush Simplistic slogans for simplistic minds.
To: plain talk
Maybe so. But in this case it is true.
How else do you explain the 'education' bill?
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posted on
12/19/2002 10:09:03 PM PST
by
Karsus
To: plain talk
To: vannrox
Your #6 is dead right. Fortunately for me, I own a lot of property and can afford to just consider myself 'retired" because at 49 and having failed to nab a tech contract in over a year, I'm totally over in that field, even if it comes back in a year or two. Since I've only been an independent consultant, I never qualified for UE anyway.
There's a lot of over forty guys who are plain screwed.
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