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extended unemployment?

Extended Unemployment.

  • Accepted by Congress

    Votes: 8 72.7%

  • Rejected by Congress

    Votes: 3 27.3%
  • Total voters
    11
  • Poll closed .
sacr3d bl0od

sacr3d bl0od

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I am just wondering who thinks that the unemployment act in December will pass because we just got cut today. so i am just wondering who thinks that it will be accepted or get rejected.
 
sacr3d bl0od said:
well my fathers did but yea we just got cut today.
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Well then, he should write his congressman and let them know how he feels.
They only way they will vote your way is if you write and call.
But if they extend it, its already to late for your dad. He lost it and I am sure they will not go back and give money to those who lost it.
 
Well the thing i did forget to mention this i am sorry about but my father is an electrician and he gets unemployment from his local. and due to him being in the local he is in, they send him his unemployment due to him not working, but since there is no unemployment there are no electricians getting unemployment my father said.
 
I would like to see honest normally hard working folks get help when they need it. I just hope they make spending cuts in other areas to help pay for it so our grandkids don't have to.
 
Ditto to TSST. I'm sorry about your father not being able to find a job. I hope things get better for you and your family soon. :)
 
I have mixed feelings about extending unemployment benefits. I know that some people really really need it extended, but then again if they have 3 years to collect, many people won't even start looking for a job until they only have a few months left to collect, and after all that time their skills have atrophied and they are less desirable to employers.

The ONLY way I can see to start fixing the economy and get a handle on the deficit is to drastically cut or do away with programs that are so popular no one wants to go near them. Until then I am afraid we are glued, screwed and tattooed!!
 
I say keep it. Starsevol had a point but then again there are hard working people that lose there jobs and cant find work. My dad was on it for 6 months so I know its hard. I dont know what we would have done if he lost his.
 
I've been out of work for two years now. I got fired when I was six months pregnant so I couldn't find another job until I was nearly nine months and I had to turn the only people who called me back. I'm in school now earning credits for a technical trade. It's a hard time we're in now, one day I hope to tell my grandkids how war and greed nearly destroyed the world. If we survive, that is. Should I give up my financial aid so more rich men can keep their bonuses?
 
Dreamsnake said:
I've been out of work for two years now. I got fired when I was six months pregnant so I couldn't find another job until I was nearly nine months and I had to turn the only people who called me back. I'm in school now earning credits for a technical trade. It's a hard time we're in now, one day I hope to tell my grandkids how war and greed nearly destroyed the world. If we survive, that is. Should I give up my financial aid so more rich men can keep their bonuses?
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Although war and greed did play a part to getting us where we are today, there is much more that contributed to the problem. Also, I honestly can't see the relation between financial aid and a corperation paying excessive bonus' to their CEOs...whether or not rich men are allowed to keep what the companies they work for pay them has no bearing on whether or not you get financial aid to attend whatever university you get into. Apples and oranges.
 
I have mixed feelings on this as well. I have a family member who is very happy to sit around and collect unemployment for as long as possible. On the other side of that, since my DH got out of the military it's been very hard to find work of any kind and there may come a day not too far in the future where we need to file for benefits.
 
Dreamsnake said:
... Should I give up my financial aid so more rich men can keep their bonuses?
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I have never understood this type of logic. I do understand the popularity of vilifying "rich men". But why should someone have to give up something they earned to someone else that has not earned it?

I am far from rich but do earn a bonus yearly. One, I might add, that I work my a... backside off for. Why should I be required to give that to someone that has not worked for two years? I will be honest once Obama starts to redistribute it I will cease making the effort to earn it.

Before I get admonished for my lack of care I want to reiterate. I think unemployment benefits are one of the few social services that is good and earned. I just think we need to pay for them with cuts elsewhere not with borrowed China funding or printed money(national debt increases). :shrugs:
 
I think it totally depends. The people who are actively trying to find a job should get them, while others who only half look shouldn't. My dad's work place is supposed to have a manager and two employees. One was fired, so it was my dad and the manager. They sold more then than they did with the one who was fired, and the first guy the manager hired after that was very late to his first day and was only there for four hours before never being heard from again.

So it totally depends.
 
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