Unemployment

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

You are simply not liberal enough. It's like when gas prices started skyrocketing here. Everyone was "If you lived in {blank} you'd be paying four times that." Well, fuck that. I don't live in {blank}. I live in the USA where I should be paying $1.50 a gallon tops.

[Vasteel]

So you're going to focus on another group of people before we focus on ourselves? At what point will we then break when we're so focused on what outside countries are doing that we don't notice the collapse in our own society?

I fail to see how the two aren't directly related. It's not like American jobs go overseas because raw material is cheaper.

So leaching off people to support yourself (Like I said unless you work at a company for a long period of time, Unemployment is not money you paid, unless someone is going to eventually come in here and prove that wrong and show the rate at which you are paying goes to Unemployment) comes first though.

Every over the table paycheck I've ever gotten had unemployment funds withheld, and in NC, that is the money your unemployment check is drawn from (matched by your former employer.) Once it is depleted, so is your unemployment, barring circumstances like medical disability.

I also find it disturbing that you are spouting off about this, while not saying shit about companies having to be accountable for firing the people who dedicate their lives to working for them.

Thats both fine and logical. So wouldn't the people who you can make a difference in their misery, come before the people who you couldn't?

Realistically I'm talking about. If you could do something to save someones job, would you not do it because he wouldn't be as worse off as the starving children of Africa, or would you admit to yourself, short of dedicating your life to fundraising, and working in international programs, that you can't really do much but be outraged about the starving children of Africa, and help save the guys job?

I'm not seeing the implications here that tell me I can't worry about the workers (at all) in America because there are things that are bad in other places.

They do, I would, and I totally agree. How does any of what I said contradict any of this?

[Thief Silver]

I also find it disturbing that you are spouting off about this, while not saying shit about companies having to be accountable for firing the people who dedicate their lives to working for them.

You mean when I said a company that fires a long standing employee should be bled for all they're worth?

Every over the table paycheck I've ever gotten had unemployment funds withheld, and in NC, that is the money your unemployment check is drawn from (matched by your former employer.) Once it is depleted, so is your unemployment, barring circumstances like medical disability.

yeah and like I asked, from what I've read the total amount you pay for this unemployment is $56 a year. That's jack shit.

Looking at my paychek I'm losing (About) .08% of my money to Unemployment insurance. That's it. So what other magical number is going into that Unemployment that I should know about.

[Josh]

Your

awesome.

[Andrew]

Wow, another person suckling the tits of America. I propose that if you are under 40 and you take unemployment, you go to the service.

Worst idea ever.

So you want to force those who collect unemployment to join the military? In other words, you would flood our all-volunteer force with society's least desirable at a time when morale is already shaky at best? No. Just... no.

or by rebuilding New Orleans

Best answer ever.

When forced to choose between getting a job and compulsory residence in Louisiana, the former always wins. I'm speaking from experience. It takes a special type of unwashed asshole to live in that place by your own free will.

I love how so many lazy fucks hate America, not even realizing they couldn't life this life anywhere else in the world.

I always wondered where the anti-American resentment originates in these people. I mean, it has to start somewhere, right? It boggles my mind. Try speaking the Chinese national anthem in Beijing. Try burning, spitting, or cumming on the North Korean flag in Pyongyang. Try being rewarded for living a shiftless life of scratching your balls in Riyadh. It's just not going to happen.

People hating the very government that rewards their meaningless, lazy existence... how uniquely American.

[Gooch]

the hot eskimo (there's no such thing btw), etc.

I don't know, but I've been told that eskimo pussy is mighty cold.

I have quite a few friends who are currently collecting or have collected unemployment, some legit, some non-legit. I am ambivalent towards this issue.

I've never collected unemployment in my life but if I did, I'd try to combo it with some cash paying side job to maintain the ghetto fab lifestyle because $800/mo or whatever the fuck it is is hardly enough for a grown adult to live on. That's what, only two half ounces of green and two eight balls a month? How do you buy your food, pay utilities, etc., then?

I do what I do because I'm lazy. My goal is to stop working as soon as possible in life, or rather I should say "stop having to work" because I'll always be working in some capacity. I can't wait to be (voluntarily) unemployed in that regard.

[Drewbacca]

HAY THAT WAS MY JOKE

[Space Pirate Roberts]

Bertrand Russell

...

mind = blown

[youandwhosearmy]

I always wondered where the anti-American resentment originates in these people. I mean, it has to start somewhere, right? It boggles my mind. Try speaking the Chinese national anthem in Beijing. Try burning, spitting, or cumming on the North Korean flag in Pyongyang. Try being rewarded for living a shiftless life of scratching your balls in Riyadh. It's just not going to happen.

People hating the very government that rewards their meaningless, lazy existence... how uniquely American.

In what people exactly, the unemployed?

Clarify please.

[Andrew]

In what people exactly, the unemployed?

Clarify please.

"The unemployed" as a general population? Of course not, you silly goose. A great many people who draw unemployment funds are down-on-their-luck types who genuinely want to turn things around. Many are even ashamed to be in their current situation.

I was referring to a subclass of that group, originally referenced by Biff, that leaches off the system, all the while showing nothing but absolute contempt for said system. Such people exist (in debatable quantities, but they do exist), and I find them to be nothing short of vile. Of course, there are no consequences for biting the hand that feeds you in this case, so I guess it's to be expected.