Posted on 12/05/2013 9:15:08 AM PST by Jim Robinson
There are no jobs. One of the first things Obama did was tank the economy. Even McDonalds won’t hire those who are skilled workers. They’ll claim you’re over-qualified and will leave as soon as you get a better offer.
NINETY NINE Weeks, IIRC is the limit, isn’t it? Almost two years. Two years of UIC, two (actually will be more) years of SNAP, TANF, EITC, Section 8 and the umpty other assistance plans.
This is just another in a long line of Democrat government plans to keep its people from finding out that eventually the gravy train has to stop at terminus at some point.
Working for a living is so overrated in the new utopia.
Pure Left Wing political maneuvering. They want people to feel the Democratic compassion when they run up more debt, right before the election.
BTW, link doesn't work. It takes you to the "Unions want $15 an hour for fast food workers" story.
oops. fixed the link. Thanks.
unemployment insurance. The new welfare
Silly me for not signing up one day one. I’d be rich now and doing nothing but eating bon bons. To think the government would still be paying me far into the future. Yes, I’m so dumb I’m also paying for a phone.
I concur 100% on dispatching the criminal invaders (they are not merely "illegal" immigrants), they are in fact enemy combatants and should be treated as such. The penalty for invading America must be both swift and severe to the utmost with no exceptions. This is war and these war criminals must be stopped to send a clear message of zero tolerance for those even thinking about invading our country.
Where I differ is your phrasing, "...give the jobs to unemployed US citizens." In my opinion, no one should ever be given a job. It must be earned.
Negative.
If Pelosi’s logic held up, we should just carpet bomb the country in unemployment checks, forever. That would create a billion jobs and we’d all be swimming in prosperity.
It could work quite well if the unemployed had to make money to get things such as cell phones, to be able to afford any extras, anything but enough food for survival, to pay rent, etc
Got it...I thought we differed only on a matter of phrasing. Thanks so much for the quick response, FRiend!
There are no jobs. One of the first things Obama did was tank the economy. Even McDonalds won’t hire those who are skilled workers. They’ll claim you’re over-qualified and will leave as soon as you get a better offer.
I know several “older”, 55 to 62, who have been tanked by the economy and this sadministration, they CAN NOT find work, not even the fast food or Walmarts will hire them, though they could not pay bills on part time minimum wage,beacause they are to experienced. Even when trying to get jobs in their trades, plumbing and construction, no one will hire them because they are to experienced for the pay being offered (read too old) and figure they won’t stick around. My friend was flat out told by a EDD rep in California that employers won’t hire experienced workers at lower wages because they believe the worker will quit the second they get a better offer. It’s not right to dump everyone in the same pot, there many people who want to work and “freeload” but they can’t get hired.
Then they should start their own business instead of working for others. Take the cases of John D. Rockefeller, John Astor, Andrew Carnegie and many others. They started with absolutely nothing and created wealth on their own. Inspiring is the case of Harlan Sanders who started what we now know as KFC while in his 50s in Corbin, KY. Those with drive and ambition need not work for others but will take the initiative to create a product or service that the market wants.
And permit me to recommend the 2002 film, Door to Door, the true story of Bill Porter, afflicted with cerebral palsy. He didn't let his crippling condition stand in the way of becoming successful. Persistence always pays off.
If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exactly. There’s a lot of talent being wasted and they WANT to work. They find it insulting to being called a “freeloader”.
Then they should start their own business instead of working for others.
The man I worked for for 14 yrs. had a successful contractor business, we specialized in laboratories, ground up, replace equipment, fume hoods, tenant improvement, then the economy tanked and he was underbid by ridiculous amounts at every turn. Unable to compete with the conglomerate construction companies and pushed off jobs by unions he had to fold up the company because there just wasn’t any money to be made, but you go ahead start up in a competitive industry and survive with no income.
Innovation and creativity will always be a winning combination. There's a fellow in my neighborhood who is 68 (an American, by the way -- not a Mexican), a few years younger than me. He goes door to door offering to rake and bag the leaves for a nominal fee. Although I normally prefer to do this task myself since I enjoy yardwork, I recently opted to let him do it. After doing the job well, he then told me that he gets very few refusals and has made a tidy sum. His persistence and sunny optimism pays off!
Don’t waste your time responding. To discuss something sensibly the other person needs to be rooted in reality. Some just can’t grasp the Obama economy.
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