Bad News For The Unemployed

Unless he's a ***.

LMAO!!!! Even a *** can serve. You just might not like how you're being served or what he's serving you!

I guess I was a bit vague for ***.
I got pat down put into the back of a cruiser once because they thought we had drugs in our car, they didn't have any reasonable suspicion past the fact that I was messed up.
I had got my wisdom teeth taken out so I was rolling on the vicodin train.
Honestly I didn't have a problem with it past the fact that they were hindering me getting my pizza on with some ladies.

at least your post inst an attack on a person via their military career. however the law is written for someone to do exactly like lil did. so attack the law not the person who uses it as intended. the law is there to provide income for people who are unemployed or underemployed. now some (if not most) choose to use the benefit until they can find something that pays more than unemployment.

also it is the law itself that extends its benefit to people that are in school (and doesnt make them even look for work). the assumption is that they will be able to become bigger producers in the economy if they have an education or a trade.

also the government extended unemployment for everyone. if it is screwing us so bad to collect unemployment then why extend it? obviously the government wants people to have income and be spending money and are willing to pay for that.

not only does the unemployment system allow you to go to school they encourage you by taking away the requirement of even looking for a job. that is the way the law is written. to encourage someone to NOT look for work while in school. if you would rather turn down a scholarship to go to school and rough it by working and taking classes then go ahead, but i wouldnt. if you dont like that it is a scholarship then take to your lawmakers.

you want to be mad? go ahead be mad, but be mad at the lawmakers not the person that is doing exactly what they lawmakers intended.

unemployment is actually called unemployment insurance. all employers have to pay for insurance for their employees. so all lil is doing is collecting the insurance. so if you think it is so wrong, then next time you get in a car accident go ahead and pay for all the repairs yourself so you dont screw over the insurance company. or if you need medical work done go ahead and pay for that out of pocket so that you dont have to burden that insurance company (or the government) either.

what exactly do you think lil is doing with all that money? ill bet spending quite a bit of it. which does a couple things. it creates jobs. also now lil isnt on the job market so now you have reduced the gridlock for someone else to get a job. also lil is studying to do something more productive than be a burger flipper. not that fast food isnt important, but having an education will likely increase our GNP in the long run.

its the laws that are the problem not the people who use them as intended.

Are you serious?

Did you even read what he wrote?

First off thank you for your service to our country. Now shame on you for begging for a hand out because of it. Im supose to continue to pay for you to sit on your *** untill you can draw a VA check because you served in the military? This is a slap in the face to everyone who still has a job or who has been forced to seek lower pay employment...i know alot of people who got laided off from where I work in the past year, the older people are taking advantage of this saying well ill draw unemployment then just jump on social security when unemployment runs out. Unemployment and welfer can be good things if its monitered more closelly, stop giving a mother 5 yr's of sit at home money just for popping out a baby unless they gonna get off there *** and prove they looking for a job. (bye prove I mean have someone call to check if such and such really did turn in a app)

A friend of mine recentally took advantage of this as well, he got laid off from a job where he maid $15 a hr. Had a chance to return to his job 3 months later and turned it down because he could sit on his *** thanks to Obama for far longer then he should have been able too, he is just now returning to work not because a job came open or because his unemployment was running out, he returned to work because his wife's mother passed and he now had to help pay for a funneral. People every where are taking full advantage of this and people who still have a job and could bearlly afford to support there famillys have to suffer for lazyness of others.

Also i seen where someone said earllyer in this form that fast food job looks bad on a resume, if your gonna come up with a lame excusse for why your too lazy to get off your *** and work for a living (even if its not what your use to) then please do a better job. You wanna know what a short span of working in fast food tells a employer? It says "this person is not afraid to get down and dirty if needed". The job i have now allows me to sit on my *** and play ffxi from work most the time, the boss has come in and asked what game im playing even. I work 12 hr shifts 3 days a week playing ffxi 8 of those 12 hrs, i landed this comfy desk style job not because i had the most experiance, i landed it because out of the 5 people who applyed for it 6 years ago when i applyed i was the only one who accully worked in the past (metal building work, meat market work, and grocery work from my past). When i was hired i was told "we chose you over the others because your work history shows your not scared to do hard work if needed".

P.S: to the dude who says he was military, I have a friend who served his time came home was in your shoes couldnt find work, he went to school got his degree couldnt find work. He is currentlly in Germany with the millity waiting for the econmy to get strightend out this is a solider this is someone i respect. Being a solider is a quick way to earn respect but as a solider you should always remember respect can be lost just as fast as it was earned.

My favorite part about this thread is all the neg reps i get even though not a single person quotes what i wrote to try and have an intelligent conversation or debate about how I am wrong cause they know they would be schooled.

Why try and argue with me when you can take the lazy way out and neg anonymously, lol. I shouldn't be shocked, it's really the same approach as why should people try to find work when they can be lazy and leech of of the system?

Unemployment, welfare, food stamps should be the last line of defense.. instead you people see it as free opportunities and are *** up our Country just like the people who because they got upside down on their house thought it would be "easier" to claim bankruptcy and walk away from their obligations.

Lazy leeches draining my Country dry, I said it before.. eventually us hard working citizens who pay a majority of the taxes will get sick of picking up the slack for you. Instead of working hard as early as you could from the bottom to the top you chose to gain zero experience and hold unemployment checks in your hands, don't get mad at me when all the opportunities you could have once had slip through those hands of yours and you're only left with your *** in your hands.

gg though, it might be working out for you guys now tell me im mad.. we'll see who's mad when i'm sitting on top of my 401k looking down on you all laughing at the ones hoping for social security checks

I'm currently unemployed and I still agree and feel bad about being a lazy *** on benefits. I don't know how anyone could live like this long term, because I'm just about flipping the ***out.

OMG I got a idea!!!! Lets start unemployment in ffxi. Checks go out in the forum of abyssea partys. If you have a job that is not as useful as it once was (Example: pld) then SE should gureentee you 99 days of free abyssea leech, you can join a abyssea pt and cant be kicked out for sitting on your *** doing nothing while 17 others get you exp sounds great right?

They will not say it of course but i can bet the very one's saying Leeching unemployment is OK are like "Hell no" to abyssea leech.

what you read: "content"

what you should have been reading "intent"

just because somebody wants to use slang doesn't make them a racist

chill the *** out

as a recently ex-military net nerd who hasn't managed to get a job in LOL BALTIMORE, this lack of a "payday" really really really sucks......

Look with all the extensions they can get, its like 92 weeks of free money. That almost 2 years of doing nothing. I have a friend on it and he told me its like a vacation. Look, we cant keep on having this type of attitude "the government will take care of me"

What ever happened to taking care of ourselves? Before food stamps, didnt we have communities that you know, run food drives and Food shelters? America is the most generous country in the world but yet we still look to the government to fix our problems. WE cant have the "woe is me" attitude if we wanna go back to being the powerhouse we once were. Now we are looking to china to bail us out. Be weary, that money might be full of lead (reference to all the toy recalls made from china)

Wah wah wah pundit-like claims of the future as usual ^

Cut unemployment and keep top 1% tax cuts hell yeah!
someones gotta get that money that would have been taken in as taxes if it weren't for the "tax cuts", but removing a tax cut for some magical reason is taken the same way as a "tax increase" when a temporary "tax cut" has the word "temporary" there for a reason.
i agree with doing something about unemployment, don't get me wrong.
but i just don't understand such conflicting concepts between two different but similar(in regards to $ signs) can be so different.
wishy washy feelings come from that concept.
not saying that's your opinion in regards to tax cuts, but i'm about damn sure it is.
correct me if i'm wrong.

This.

It also doesn't help that some people think 'Why should I find a job when I get more on my unemployment check then I would if I worked'.

I would *** love if the gov't ACTUALLY took care of me..I'm now unemployed cuz the restaurant I worked at, closed down....I would love a break.. I'm a disabled Army Veteran and its hard as ***for me to make ends meet in comparison to others...

All you gotta do is smoke a ***ton of weed in front of a police office in a non-legal/decriminalized state and the government will take care of you for a long time.

Too bad so sad - time to work for a living, even if it is 2x minimum wage crappy "no way this is a career" jobs' back to back. When I was on unemployment (2x times), 6 months (26 weeks) was the limit - period. I had the ego at the time I deserved a higher paycheck more worthy of my "skills"; when unemployment benefits ran out, it was time for a reality check. I found 2x crap minimum wage jobs that I worked (16 hours a day), and I did those till I found a better job.

The insurance premium paid by previous employers are limited and aren't everlasting - now these indefinitely unemployed are expecting to leech off of others working for a living?

Time to Man/Woman up.

I myself wouldn't feel like a man leeching off of the government.
The feeling of supporting yourself is comforting to an extent.
But the awareness of how much it takes to support yourself is quintessential to existing in the upcoming years.
people can be picky if you want but that's definetly not gonna pay bills.
or they can legalize weed and i can take my stab at growing
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i'm fine with my desk job as it is now.
building up good resume candy.

that's simple logic there, don't blame the person just because it's illogical to take less money and do more work.

Correct me if Im wrong.. US gets 99 weeks for UI and Canadians get 52 ( which is your normal 1 yr for CANADA to get pogey..)


WTF is the US whining about? Go look for a job if your not happy... or go back to school...

99 weeks is better than out 1 yr.. you'd be hurting if you were a canuck!


Holy.....

you get one year standard? this entire extension was because of the economic situation as a barrier to prevent the problem from worsening and to keep people from losing their homes etc, considering the economy is still shaky and a lot of people are still unemployed dropping it probably wasn't the best idea, my research into the entire subject is lacking to say it was the worst idea though (don't think it is) there are good reasons for both sides of the argument (to keep or get rid of the extension) but as for normal unemployment, we get shafted hardcore in comparison to the rest of the modern world, sad really.