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Posted on 01/09/2014 10:33:55 AM PST by IChing
The majority of sleazes in congress and the chief criminal in the White House talk of “doing the right thing” and “having a heart” by their plan to extend unemployment benefits yet again for the millions of deadbeats sitting on their fat rear-ends collecting checks for month after month after month after month after month after month after month…instead of simply going out and, if nothing else, finding and accepting menial or low-paying, humble work.
“Waaahhh, if we don’t continue to pay them not to work, they might lose their house, waahhh, they might have to pull their kids out of college, waaahhh...”
I say tough shorts, they need to get off their dead asses and get a job. Who says anyone deserves to maintain ownership of a house at another’s expense, or that anyone’s kid absolutely must remain in college regardless of circumstances?
Someone who lost their $100k/year job, and won’t take a job paying $50k, or for that matter $25k/year, because it’s “beneath” them or because it won’t meet their current expenses, plus it involves more anguish and toil than just collecting benefits (while pretending to really seek work), and instead wants politicians to keep other people’s earnings flowing in to support their lifestyle, deserves to be unceremoniously dragged into the woods by their ankles and thrown naked into a frozen ravine. Don’t give them any food, water, or compass, and see how quickly they learn to eagerly seek to earn their way out of their situation.
Necessity is the mother of getting off one’s dead ass and making it happen. ”If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.” (2 Thessalonians 3:10)
Screw ‘em if they don’t want to take menial or low paying jobs; arrogant parasites like that should starve to death if they think they deserve to live high without lifting a finger while someone else scrapes and scratches out a living, or even prospers at their endeavors and does well enough to wind up paying taxes.
When I was in my twenties and thirties, after getting out of the military and while struggling to put myself through college, I worked at a newspaper for $3.75 an hour, then as a security guard for $4.25 an hour, several seasons in a cannery and at a food processing/packing plant for $4.55 an hour. I literally dug/shoveled dirt & poured concrete, tended bar, sold cars, waited tables, worked behind a supermarket deli counter, and sold newspaper subscriptions and frozen food door-to-door. After college, I still took any kind of work I could find, worked security in dangerous black ghettos of major cities, did customer service and pretty much you name it, I did it.
There was no generous G.I. Bill during the 7 years I served on active duty, just a measly savings/matching program amounting to a maximum of $8,100 (much of which I had to pay back to Uncle Sam when problems caused me to withdraw from college, late in semesters, twice). I borrowed–and finally finished repaying just over a year ago, 16 years after graduating–over $30,000 in student loans to eventually finish my bachelor’s degree, all for which I currently have a modest-paying job which doesn’t even require any degree at all.
Sure, I’ve had some help along the way from the Veteran’s Administration; it was something I was steered toward by a counselor, and I’ve never demanded it as an entitlement, nor have I said or felt that it would be some kind of injustice or whatever if it was taken away. At one point I did inquire about having my veteran’s benefits stopped, because at that time I had a decent-paying job and I felt a bit guilty about it, but a VA counselor basically yelled at me as if I was nuts, and insisted that I keep it for the sake of my wife and son. Am I a hypocrite?
I don’t care if anyone thinks I’m “heartless” for saying all this. I’m not, and neither is any of the exceptional breed of honest politician who votes against extending the unemployment scam. What’s heartless is pretending that people are better off living as false-entitlement-minded leeches expecting to be paid not to work at all, indefinitely, and that our country is somehow better off by keeping up this pandering political charade of continually paying them to not work as if it’s the right thing to do.
I have no problem at all with helping the less fortunate, and paying out earned benefits where truly warranted. Both are imperatives. But we are talking about something different entirely when in this case we have people gaining and holding public office by avoiding being frank with voters, and instead buying their votes by legislating lavish graft and runaway insurance fraud schemes–which this apparently endless unemployment compensation crap actually is.
I’ll leave you with this classic nugget of Keynesian democrat delusion, from Nancy Pelosi a few years ago when she was Speaker of the House of Representatives: ”Unemployment checks create jobs.”
Barf. Oh, and by the way, drag the sleazoid politicians and throw them naked into the frozen ravine, too. Let them all dine out on an unlimited supply of paper U.S. treasury checks.
If someone is unemployed, then their job is to look for a job, full-time, every day, day and night, until they are again gainfully employed, and paying their own living expenses.
Otherwise, they are deadbeats; worse than useless; parasitic, subhuman, total wastes of human potential.
I know far too many who are getting benefits who have absolutely no intention of ever again working, or becoming employable, or developing any marketable skills. The first six months of unemployment provide time to apply for extended unemployment benefits. The extended benefits provide time to apply for SSI disability. Then the disability income provides time to apply for permanent disability, then for every type of government check and benefit under the sun.
On top of that, some of these cretins go back to work for cash under the table, un-taxed, and living like royalty at the expense of their human benefactors. On this, I wouldn't fault them, if, and only if, they would give up the government income.
I'd vote for grinding such fraudulent scumbags up for dog food and fertilizer, along with all the governemt slugs who processed and approved the paperwork.
I got a kick out of the dumbs***t Kenyan yesterday when she said NOBODY has ever come up to him and told him that they would rather receive an unemployment check than have a job. The boy sure isn’t very bright, is he?
Good idea!! Maybe longer. Yes, longer.
Hear, hear!!
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Wow, good one
Oh come on...there is always some “relative” they can’t leave behind! lol
Even with federal “emergency” extensions some states limit the time. In TN it’s 73 weeks total. Period.
Still a lot but it is what it is.
My job was eliminated 3 years ago. I got paid all earned and accrued vacation/sick time and one year severence (along with health insurance).
They also signed on to the unemployment. I got a total of 73 weeks ($275 a week maximum in TN) which is the max in TN.
I still haven’t found “work”. I’m close to 60 and did corporate accounting. They can hire kids out of college as clerks for 1/3 or less what I was making to do the simple work.
My wife has an executive job so it’s not about the money. While I don’t “work” I do all the household stuff we used to hire out (maids) and don’t eat out much because I shop and cook.
So I’m not quite a deadbeat! lol
We all know people who turned down work because the benefits were extended. And duh many of them ARE working under the table while collecting...
If you know people who are doing that, you should report them. They are criminals as well as parasites.
Yeah I’ll bring criminal actions against everybody’s brother in law.
Sorry, but I’d put you in the category of one of those who are the problem. For well over a year you collected unemployment checks because you’d just rather not take a job that doesn’t match up with what you deemed appropriate.
America has sold out, on American jobs.
Bring back American jobs.
As I pointed out, I don’t need a job.
So you’re perfectly okay with engaging in long-term insurance fraud.
where cai I get me some of that free Obama money...
I was let go, unemployment compensation was paid by my company and I took it. It was extended by idiots in federal government and it was legally paid to me for 73 weeks.
Fraud? Not quite.
Yes, fraud. Insurance fraud. You took money as part of an insurance scheme that was intended for someone who really needed it. Not to worry, the system and culture encourages you and approves.
Fraud is a deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain (adjectival form fraudulent; to defraud is the verb).[1] As a legal construct, fraud is both a civil wrong (i.e., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud and/or recover monetary compensation) and a criminal wrong (i.e., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities).
I did not do this. I took my legal limit. Don’t like it? Vote out those that pass these laws.
The definition is met in the unfair aspect. The funds were intended for someone who really needed them. What you did is exactly what millions of people have been and are doing, constantly, for generations now in this runaway welfare state which has given us trillions in debt and unfunded liabilities. “Entitlements” that they legally are allowed to collect, but which should instead be left where they belong—as other people’s property.
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