Another reason to doubt the ‘lazy unemployed’ meme

Here’s yet another reason to doubt that the unemployed are lazy – I have at least three friends who are “unemployed”. All three are working under the table WHILE they are collecting unemployment. So please forgive me if as a small business owner who pays my share of taxes (and my friends’ shares too, apparently), I don’t run over myself hiring new people. My first responsibility is to the people who already work for me, and the unemployed seem to have things worked out for themselves.

The truth here is that maidofstarstuff has dishonest friends who should be dealt with through greater enforcement of laws or rules against fraud. Throw them in jail, but don’t doom all the honest unemployed out there to life in the streets as they wait for clearly failed policies – the Republican’s favorite “trickle-down” type of intellectual fraud – to produce a vibrant economy with jobs they can perform.

Just what is it you do, when your rep govt allows corporatists to ship the good jobs oversas and subvert the wll being of your own. For example, the american taxpayer funded the start up and growth of a solar panel factory in the US, but when it got big enough, the company partnered with a Chinese solar production plant and is now closing the US plant and moving operations to China. I would say, the the US got suckered in this deal and the american worker double, double crossed. So creating green jobs has not worked out so well with this little project. So, the coal business cotinues to kill workers and pollute the earth, gas xploration poisons our frsh water suppkly thru fracking and we let american corporations export jobs frly. I say, close the tax loop holes that promote these immoral business practices, put a tariff on ay job shipped out and put a surcharge on the wages of any americans working abroad,

People are doing what they can to survive in a tough economy. Unemployment does not cover living expenses for many families, so people take what they can. I know of no one who could find a job with a living wage, who would turn it down. In fact, I know of more who have unemployment expired, who are working two and three jobs to stave off the bill collectors. Most people are honest, most people rely on jobs for their egos and to be without a job is humiliating. The disgrace is a nation of people, who as’t sign superior rights to corporate entities who don’t give a hoot about the american worker or the country. Every person who has been free to earn and elevate their lives has done so on the backs of those who built this nation. The unemployed worked when they had the opportunnity or they wouldn’t have been eligible for the benefits in the first place.

People do not choose to be unemployed. It is interesting that the ones who criticize unemployment benefits are probably the ones who are fortunate to be living “the good life”. If these same people lost their jobs, they would be singing a different story. Some people should be informed that unemployment benefits are taxable income. The unemployed do pay federal taxes for these benefits.

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I personally know many people who refused jobs because the job paid 100 dollars per week more than the “free” benefits but required going into work.Their reasoning is why work 30-40 hours for an extra hundred when you can sit at home and chill for three hundred?

Unemployment insurance is paid for by employers. That is different than the extensions which pay people not to look for work. That is nothing more than a Democrat buying votes….

I know many who are living life off unemployment extension after extension and now vote Democrat simply to keep the money flowing. The country is 14 trillion in debt (all borrowed money with interest). No more handouts.

You have no credibility. You are not capable of either finding out or objectively reporting information on unemployment. Usually, normal people will not talk to your ilk. When someone is as judgmental as you are, acquaintances lie to them just to tick them off.

2 comments. A point of clarification : Unemployment in either form does not pay people not to look for work. In fact, each recipient is required to show evidence on a regular basis of their effort to find work. Secondly, in response to n8whit comment of yesterday, I would like to ask if any person were getting say $400.00 a week in unemployment and that person was offered a job at $500.00 per week would he be better off? The answer is: probably not, because by the time withholding taxes and other payroll deductions are taken out of his pay and he pays the expenses to travel to that job, he is very likely to net $50 – 100 dollars less each week. At the full unemployment rate, he cannot meet all of his current obligations, and if he takes that job, he will be even less able to take care of his family. n8whit, how would you deal with such a quandry?

You think!

I have so had it with the employed americans bashing those who are unemployed. As the old saying goes, “walk a mile in my shoes.” I dare you to walk two infact. Everyday is a struggle not knowing how you are going to make ends meet. My marriage is on the brink of complete disaster because neither of us have an answer as to how to solve our financial woes and the battles are unreal. The stress is sometimes so astronomical the thought of giving up is more appealing then pressing on. I am so tired of applying for jobs that don’t call or don’t give an answer as to why you aren’t hired or better yet someone with less qualifications or more qualifications gets the job. I am humiliated beyond belief in having food stamps. I hate it but I truly could not buy food without them. If I cut back anymore I would be living on the streets so for those who are employed who think you have all the answers why don’t you post a solution. I have never, ever lived the way I am today and with losing my unemployment for good in Oct. I have no more answers. I have a college degree, I have 10 years experience in social work, I can’t afford to leave the area I live in, I dont’ even have gas money some days to go on job interviews. So until you idiots out there have something viable to say that is a real solutions keep your biased opinions to yourself unless you truly know what it feels like to be without and struggle day to day.

The unemployed are not lazy. In CO, there are more than 233,000 unemployed workers; there is a job shortfall of more than 264,000 jobs and the state created a whopping 500 new jobs last month.I’m really tired of hearing how lazy the unemployed are – it’s just an outright lie -a cop out.

As you can see, in July it was reported that there were more than 16,000 who had exhausted benefits. In August, that number had increased to approximately 20,000 and by November it was reported by the CDLE that more than 26,000 unemployed workers in the State had exhausted all available EUC benefits.

Also in Novemer, the CDLE reported that “19,000 people are currently on SEB and will see no more payments after the week ending 12/4/10″ [if the 13-month extension had not been passed in the Presidents 'deal'].

Now, this week, the CDLE has told the Denver Post, 9News** and all other media outlets that there are ‘just under 19,000 claimants’ who qualify for Tier 4 benefits.

How can the number of ‘reported’ 99ers start at over 16,000 in July, increase to 20,000 in August and more than 26,000 in November, and then, two months later, fall to ‘just under 20,000′?

Denver Unemployment Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/unemployment-in-denver/official-reports-re-99ers-coming-from-the-dol-and-cdle-mysteriously-decline#ixzz1CREgdBvq

If you are recieivng Tier 3 benefits from the State of Oklahoma, Please call your Congress person and express your concerns.. Even if your not getting unemployment benefits you can help.

I don’t know what kind of friends you hang out with, but you can’t judge all the unemployed by the type you know. The hardest hit is the older people called the 99ers. They have put into the system alot more over the years. But now that they have some age on them, they are going to be pushed to the side. So much for the american way.

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