1.3m losing unemployment benefits Saturday

Boston Globe ^ | 12/28/2013 | Annie Lowrey

[Gene Eric]

Is that 1 or 2 years worth?

Hey, at least the unemployment rate will drop.

[Gene Eric]

Disturbing, isn’t it...

[BfloGuy]

I’m trying to figure out how this will “cut job growth”.

Yeah, isn't that one a hoot?

We are so far down the road of crazy that Democrats can claim that welfare payments grow the economy. Obviously, their contorted logic goes, withdrawing those benefits will shrink it.

The same was said of the government shutdown.

[Joan Kerrey]

Work place changes, technology, policy, routine and procedures change so rapidly these days that many of us who work full time at it are overwhelmed trying to keep up.

After 99 weeks away from my former job there is no way I could possibly come back to the job I was doing when I became unemployed.

It seems likely that older workers laid off will remain laid off as they’ll not be able to adjust to the new workplace, which includes their old job.

[Gaffer]

All I can say is you are atypical of the large part of UICs that are out there today. Look at the anecdotes that follow in this thread. Additionally, your age group only comprises about 6% of all the unemployed. You're a different generation and want a job.

Look at this:

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat03.htm

It will show you that the large majority of unemployed are less than half your age. And, this is where I maintain that by and large, continued extended UIC becomes a "gateway entitlement" (ala gateway 'drug') to worse financial conditions for this country.

For them, it's a lifetime of expected entitlement UIC first, SSDI, SNAP, WICs (yeah, they'll have more babies), EITC, Section 8 and then SSI for the babies when baby daddy skips out.