[clamper1797]

but the GM of the restaurant I work at probably makes more than you do

Don't bet the farm on it

Because I'm self employed

Like you told Keith ... don't blame me for your bad decisions

I will quit the part time job you ridiculed.

I wasn't ridiculing your job ... I was ridiculing your notion that laid off high tech workers should shuck a lifetime career and move elsewhere to work at some low paying job at the first sign of trouble. I was also ridiculing with great prejudice your idea that laid off high tech workers are bums living off the government teat.

That IMO is ridicule RICHLY deserved

[Keith in Iowa]

I wasn't ridiculing your job ... I was ridiculing your notion that laid off high tech workers should shuck a lifetime career and move elsewhere to work at some low paying job at the first sign of trouble. I was also ridiculing with great prejudice your idea that laid off high tech workers are bums living off the government teat. That IMO is ridicule RICHLY deserved.

I second that emotion...

[Republic of Texas]

I'm glad I'm self employed actually. I chose that knowing the implications. Even when business is good, I consider myself unemployed unless I am closing a deal that day. That is most days of each month. The paydays do make up for it though.

Feel how you want. Paying people not to work is immoral. (BTW, the programs you mentioned before were government programs that paid people to WORK, big difference from paying people NOT to work) It makes the giver resentful and the taker slothful. If it's such a great idea, why don't we extend unemployment to everyone forever? I can't think of anything more compassionate than that.