Poll: Do You Support Extending Unemployment Beyond 99 Weeks?

[The Rabbi]

Unemployment insurance prolongs unemployment. This is proven.

Umm so does lack of jobs.

virtually every dollar spent in unemployment benefits rolls right back into the economy with 2 weeks.

If that were the case then the US government should just put everyone on unemployment and watch our GDP skyrocket.
Really, are you that fucking stupid? Where do you learn this crap?

 

[Dis]

Poll: Do You Support Extending Unemployment Beyond 99 Weeks?

Yes or No

No, no, no, and HELL NO.

It shouldn't even be 99 weeks.

 

[Valerie]

Wow, are they really trying to extend it to 99 weeks?


I've never been on unemployment in my life and I have no idea how many weeks it currently covers but considering there are 52 weeks in a whole YEAR, that strikes me as waaaay too much time to be getting an unemployment check.

 

[Mr Natural]

Just average.

A pretty poor showing when virtaully 1/2 of aour people are below average.

That's what happens when American workers have to compete with illegals here at home and Third-World workers abroad.

We don't bring them up, they bring us down.

 

[midcan5]

A Modest Proposal

For preventing the children of poor people in Christian America from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public

It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great nation or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and doors, crowded with beggars, followed by children, all in rags and importuning every cold hearted American rich person for a handout. These fathers/mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in standing in line at the unemployment office, begging sustenance for their helpless children: who as they grow up either turn thieves for want of work, turn to communism or fascism, or even leave their dear native country.

I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.

I have been assured by very knowing conservatives, republicans, and libertarians of my acquaintance, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a stew.

I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for the corporations, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.

I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavoring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country, by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving more pleasure to the rich. I have no children by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. But given the current job situation and the surveys as noted in this thread, this solution will surely meet the moral and gluttonous tastes of all Conservative Americans. Thank you.

Apologies to Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal


UBI and the Flat Tax
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/m...?em&ex=1166763600&en=008e5238d37554dc&ei=5070

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

No. Where does it end? 120 weeks? 140? 200? 3 Years? 10?

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Poll: Do You Support Extending Unemployment Beyond 99 Weeks?

Yes or No

No.

 

[Gremlin-USA]

I would have to say no, many of the reason have already been addressed.

One reason I say no, is a little scenario that has been told to me be three different people in my town on unemployment; one person was getting 280.00 a week and had turned down 2 jobs at 400.00 per week and 380.00 per week, the reason, they were used to making over 700.00 per week and they would sit at home and collect unemployment instead of only making a 100.00 or so more with a job.

Two others had very similar stories.

Kind of seems like the taxpayers are ultimately paying them to sit at home.

Even in my small town, I could get any of about 20 jobs right now if i needed too, true i would not make 80,000 a year,but I would be working and being productive, a lot better than whining and sitting home for 90+ weeks....... JMO


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[WillowTree]

Just average.

A pretty poor showing when virtaully 1/2 of aour people are below average.

That's what happens when American workers have to compete with illegals here at home and Third-World workers abroad.

We don't bring them up, they bring us down.

well then maybe you should not support the open borders crowd.. ever think of that?

 

[keee keee]

It is everyone's right to have an above average income!

Agreed. It doesn't matter that this doesn't make mathematical sense. What matters is that everyone is equal.

all people are equal but some more equal than others, sorry could'nt remember the real quote from Animal Farm

 

[LANMaster]

Of course I do .... so long as they find somewhere else in the budget to cut spending to pay for it.

Otherwise absolutely NOT!

 

[Jarhead]

Mid sized business will struggle severely if unemployment entitlements are extended.

It will lengthen the recession and stunt the employment rebound.

 

[Nosmo King]

I say absolutely not! Even Socialist job creation like FDR's WPA beats the shit out of paying people to sit on the couch getting unhealthy burdening the health-care system & ultimately loosing their job skills making it nearly impossible to ever get them to support themselves or be a productive member of society again.

Yeah. that's what people who lost their jobs are thinking! How on earth can I just sit here for a while longer?

If that's what you truly believe, then I submit you have never lost a job and watched your family wonder if and when the next meal will be served.

 

[The Rabbi]

I say absolutely not! Even Socialist job creation like FDR's WPA beats the shit out of paying people to sit on the couch getting unhealthy burdening the health-care system & ultimately loosing their job skills making it nearly impossible to ever get them to support themselves or be a productive member of society again.

Yeah. that's what people who lost their jobs are thinking! How on earth can I just sit here for a while longer?

If that's what you truly believe, then I submit you have never lost a job and watched your family wonder if and when the next meal will be served.

You've surveyed every single unemployed person and found they all fit this category, right? You never came across some 20-somthing who said "gov't paid holiday, let's party!"? You never came across someone else who said, "i've got 2 months severance plus unemployment. I can afford to wait for the right job" right?
Because that is exactly what happens.

 

[Nosmo King]

I say absolutely not! Even Socialist job creation like FDR's WPA beats the shit out of paying people to sit on the couch getting unhealthy burdening the health-care system & ultimately loosing their job skills making it nearly impossible to ever get them to support themselves or be a productive member of society again.

Yeah. that's what people who lost their jobs are thinking! How on earth can I just sit here for a while longer?

If that's what you truly believe, then I submit you have never lost a job and watched your family wonder if and when the next meal will be served.

You've surveyed every single unemployed person and found they all fit this category, right? You never came across some 20-somthing who said "gov't paid holiday, let's party!"? You never came across someone else who said, "i've got 2 months severance plus unemployment. I can afford to wait for the right job" right?
Because that is exactly what happens.

Wow! you're right! Because some twenty something sees unemployment as a paid vacation, those benefits should be denied to a forty something with two kids and a mortgage! Brilliant solution!

While we're at it, let's stop all housing assistance to everyone because there are a few folks abusing that system!

baby? gone with the bathwater.

 

[Mr Natural]

I sure hope you people aren't planning on filing for unemployment benefits when you lose your jobs.

That would be very hypocritical of you.

 

[The Rabbi]

Typical lib response.

Let's recap your answer: No, I have done no research on the topic. No, I cannot cite any source for my belief but it sounds good. Gosh, Republicans are heartless because they don't want government to provide for everyone's ever need. Raise taxes, fuck Bush.

That about sum it up?

 

[LANMaster]

Semper Fidelis, jarhead.

 

[LANMaster]

I sure hope you people aren't planning on filing for unemployment benefits when you lose your jobs.

That would be very hypocritical of you.

LOL for 99 weeks????

Geez .... that's almost 2 freaking years!

 

[Jarhead]

semper fidelis, jarhead.

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