1) In most states, or at least in TN, you don't shuffle around a UI office looking for a job. You don't have to go into a UI office at all, except to sign up. You look for a job in your own way. If you need help, the UI office can provide leads, internet terminals, etc.
2) I'm glad you can get a job in a few weeks. But a lot of people can't. It depends on your skill set. And a lot of times, the higher up you've been, the longer and harder it is to find a job that uses your skillset. UI benefits are there to help give you time to find a job that matches your skillset. And in that way, it's good for the economy.
3) You've paid for UI benefits. So nobody should be ashamed to take them. That doesn't mean they should abuse then. But if you're legitimately unemployed, then that's a benefit you've paid for.
When you wreck your car, do you take the same attitude? Why file a claim for insurance I've paid for, when I can go buy another car in a couple of days? No, you don't. You might buy another car, but you still file to get the benefits you paid for.
I own my car outright and thus only carry liability.
if i get into an accident and it’s my fault, i pay cash out of pocket. I buy old mercedes, so it’s cost effective. Someday when we get America fixed, we can go back to having many smaller auto companies, get rid of the monopoly of publicly-held companies, and have privately-held companies making cars, and then we’ll have some good American cars to buy. It is completely possible to manufacture in America; it’s being done every day. We just have monopolies (well, technically oligopolies) in our way.
It is an adjustment to Americans’ current way of thinking, to no make use of UI.
My oh my do you feel good when you reject the payments.
a) look for job b) rely on savings c) rely on family d) rely on church charity
It is a huge adjustment for people to a) get completely out of debt b) cut spending down to pauper level c) shove all that unspent cash into bank, then into direct investment of small business and property. I had to get busted down to pauper level to realize that I did not NEED so much cr@p that I wasted money on.
It’s been done that way for thousands of years, but since our Euro-American-UK elites started the welfare state a couple centuries ago, few can remember how things are supposed to work.
i’m still working at getting where i want to be; few are where they should be.
as long as we know where we really should be and keep workign on getting there.
Cheers !!!!!