Posted on 08/17/2010 7:43:02 PM PDT by Nachum
Glenn Beck has a message for the chronically unemployed: You're a bunch of un-American losers. The Fox News host thinks some 99ers — those who have used up their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits—should be embarrassed to call themselves Americans (Snip) "Go out and get a job," said Beck. "You may not want the job. Work at McDonald's. Work two jobs. There has been plenty of times in my life I've done jobs I hated, but I had no choice. Two years is plenty of time to have lived off your neighbor's wallet."
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Some?
He hit the nail on the head. I applaud.
Has he ever applied for an entry level position with a manager level work experience? You don’t get the job...I know from experience.
Beck nails it. These people just want to stay home and collect a paycheck, a.k.a. the Democrat voters.
That being said, I haven’t hit 99 weeks, but it’s been way too long.
I am with Beck — just for the heck of it I scanned the Want Ads today and found about 50 positions I could fill if I was willing to take a bit of a pay cut.
This isn’t about unemployment nor underemployment — it is about picky people.
Unemployment Insurance was never meant to be a lifestyle. Maybe we need to start profiling “99er Kings” like “Welfare Queens.” And to do nothing for 2 years sounds pretty sweet to me.
And don’t give me that guff about “working every day” to get a job. A few hours at most gets that done. I assure you if the gravy train caboose were to go by, all of a sudden than clerk job at PetSmart would look pretty damn good.
Managers don’t like it when their underlings are more qualified for their job then they are.
I heard this segment driving home the other day. I think the NYDN piece has played around a bit with the context. Glenn was focusing on the professional victims protesting on Wall STreet, one in particular who I believe was a member of some socialist organization like the one in Cranked’s photo above.
The media will focus on the “un-American” part of the comment, instead of the substance. If you’ve been out of work for 99 weeks, that job isn’t coming back. And I’m speaking as a guy who was out for nearly six months before taking a job at half my previous pay. Hell, they extended benefits in NJ back then, and I got another check — it was bigger than my paycheck. I would’ve done better to stop working, but I would’ve been screwed 13 weeks later.
Beck is clearly right.
Parasite is as parasite does.
My wife has been unemployed for almost 3 months despite spending every weekday looking.
But I do agree with Glenn, unemployment should not be welfare.
How much of a pay cut are you talking? Give some numbers. From where to where?
‘can’t find a job’? Blaming the government and corporations?
Well, there was a time in the not so distant past that a person would find a need and fill it. It’s called ‘entrepreneurship’. Seems that ‘driver’ of the economy is gone.
Waiting for a job is like ‘waiting for Godot’. They’re not coming. You have to get off your ass and make one for yourself. That’s the American way.
“Hanging on in quiet desparation
is the English way
The time is gone
the song is over
thought I’d something more to say’
I am firmly convinced you are correct. Initially I applied for positions in the general range of my skills. Over the last couple of months I've applied for entry level positions in banks, grocery stores, hotels and the like. I have a college degree, 25 years of work experience and never been fired from a job...so I have work references. There are far more applicants than there are openings. I am willing to take less than my benefits provide, although if I do so I'd prefer that the location is a bit more rural so I might grown some vegetables to supplant an exceedingly low income.
My sister-in-law was unemployed longer than that and sat in a dark house after they turned off her electricity. Yet she wouldn’t go to McDonald’s, Burger King or Taco Bell to try to get a job.
It’s not the way you get rich, but it is money coming in and shows some initiative.
Yes, there are some who are milking the system (there always are), but for many, they just cannot get anyone to hire them. This is especially true for those over 55.
What are people supposed to do? Sell blood and organs? Sell their children? Enter the drug trade? Working under the table only ‘works’ when you can get paid.
Sure, there are some that will abuse this, like any other program, but the bottom line is people are suffering and need help.
I hear ‘overqualified’ a lot when I actually even get a call about a job. It’s frustrating beyond belief.
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