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.
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.
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.
‘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’
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.
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.
Funny you would say that Glenn. I've been out of work since Jan 2010, and I've applied at McDonald's and several fast food joints just to get some income. "Not hiring" or "decided to pursue other candidates". Strangely though the person working the drive through window doesn't speak English for crap (but that's a different issue...or is it?).
You name the minimum wage job, and I've applied for it. I've also applied for every job I'm qualified for, and many I have no work experience in but I know can do the job if given the training or the chance.
I was talking to the manager of a local retail store the other day. One position open, and they've gotten over 300 applications in just the first two days they advertised. A good portion of those applications were experienced professionals. You know who that job is going to go to? Someone without experience that they don't have to worry about leaving the job the next week if the job they really want suddenly opens up.
It's easy for someone to say "get a job". It's not easy to actually get one in this market.
I just watched a coffee shop down the street from my house close up two days ago without warning with a sign on the door that says "closed due to economic realities." That's 10 more minimum wage employees now looking for a job, right next to everyone else.
I love you Glenn, but you currently are on the outside looking in so really don't understand what's going on in the streets. I will give you that some people in the 99'ers aren't really looking, but a good majority of them are.
I have hard core experience with being unemployed and underemployed... Beck is somewhat right and a lot wrong... After 911 my 20 year business died - customers evaporated over the next year or two... Bottom line as one poster points out - if you are over educated or over experienced for available jobs - not likely you will get the low level job... it just doesn’t happen often...
During those bad years, I worked as Cable TV service cut off guy, in a retail electronics chain, detailed corporate jet aircraft, pulled water wells, installed septic tanks... and none of the jobs paid enough but to barely survive. It was total luck that I got back into a professional job - and it is not that great...
I like Glenn Beck but his personal experience is far outdated... It is a tough place out there right now.
On the other hand, extension after extension of unemployment benefits can be counterproductive. Once in a rut - you may stay there unless stimulated - pushed - shoved to do something else.
I will remind you folks - if one is self-employed and goes bust due to economic conditions beyond one’s control - Tough Stuff ... formerly self-employed folks GET NO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS -— zero, zip, zilch - nada...you are on your own from day one... find a way to make some money or starve and become homeless... bottom line...
It happened to me and it was a tough - hard time... no one bailed me out - period...
very un-PC
There is another phenomenon going on out there that the public has not gotten wind of yet. Most of those who are incarcerated have figured out the unemployment system. LOL! They’re all (families and girlfriends) receiving unemployment checks! Aren’t computers and cell phones great!?
I’m a Beck fan, but he and others with this attitude are being elitist.
No, I don’t want unlimited weeks of unemployment available. Any extension needs to be paid for by cutting somewhere else. And I recognize that there’s a significant number of people who are making the Gov’t dole a way of life.
But this “just get a job” attitude is patronizing in the highest order.
I’m a professional who hasn’t had steady employment since January of 2008. I tried so hard to invest in ventures that didn’t take off, I actually missed my window of opportunity to even file for unemployment, so I’m not on the dole myself.
I’ve done warehouse work next to 50 Mexicans. I’ve cleaned pool furniture. I’ve helped move storage units. I’ve done whatever maintenance work I could find.
I’ve applied at Home Depot, Target, Kinko’s, and just about every craigslist offering in my field. I can’t describe the depression level from fervently trying to get a decent job for months and months and being constantly rejected. REAL JOBS JUST AREN’T OUT THERE!
I’m blessed to have my wife with a dream job, otherwise we’d be in the street.
This is the age of Øbama putting his jackboot on the throat of any private sector effort to provide employment.
So lay off the JUST GO GET A JOB crap. Be glad you can say it from a position of not needing one.
Easy for him to say...HE has a job.
I started my career working at McDonald’s, I actually liked it, you didn’t have to put up with messy office politics in the kitchen. If my house was all paid off it would be so tempting to work at McDonald’s, I could walk tot he one down the street, eat one meal there, and the money could help pay property taxes and utility bills, along with food and enough for extra stuff every now and then.
But if i did that i would be taking a job from someone who was starting out too.