Well they cut unemployment benefits last night.

[DeadPool]

Way to go assholes. So now people that had jobs and lost them due to no fault of their own wont be able to support their families. But lets make sure we dont cut any welfare to the ghettos full of baby factory whores who have never worked a day in their worthless lives. Their excuse is they dont want to extend benifits unless it is funded, I say take it from the ghetto trash and give it to good people who actually worked. I'm sure in some way this makes me racist, oh well.

[Randomluck]

Good.

[CigarGuy]

Thought is it'll be one of the "add-on's" the Dems will get to keep the upper income tax cut?!

[Richard Simmons]

After 99 weeks how much more do you want, eternal unemployment?

[Kadmos]

After 99 weeks how much more do you want, eternal unemployment?

Yep, with damn near two years you could retrain for a good number of jobs.

[cciota]

How convienent that this issue comes up after the elections and right before Chistmas. "Those poor people won't have a Christmas." Dems don't give a rats ass about the unemployed. I agree that they cannot continue to add to the deficit with unemployment extensions. How about funding it with unspent TARP or Stimulus money. But how much do you want to be that this and the START treaty gets tied to extending the Bush tax cuts.

[abpt1]

IDK I think our government should support people that lost their job due to government stupidity Like steel workers or people that got fucked by outsourcing or free trade ...till things are made right or new jobs get created for them .

[Richard Simmons]

They had some folks on the radio today talking about "What am I going to tell my children when they have no presents"? Please people, presents are a luxury not a necessity? I remember more than once growing up when my sis and got very little for Xmas and we knew the reason was because things were tough.

Did we want more presents, sure. Were we disappointed, sure we were. Did it scar us forever and force us into counseling and bad marriages, no. It was part of growing up and we learned that you can't have everything you want, when you want it but if you work hard and put your best foot forward mostly you can get all you need and most of what you want.

[abpt1]

They had some folks on the radio today talking about "What am I going to tell my children when they have no presents"? Please people, presents are a luxury not a necessity? I remember more than once growing up when my sis and got very little for Xmas and we knew the reason was because things were tough.

Did we want more presents, sure. Were we disappointed, sure we were. Did it scar us forever and force us into counseling and bad marriages, no. It was part of growing up and we learned that you can't have everything you want, when you want it but if you work hard and put your best foot forward mostly you can get all you need and most of what you want.

Agreed any fool thinking gifts when they cant feed their own family has seriously issues .

[Cypher]

99 weeks, ae you kidding me? I thought it was like 6 months maximum, I guess it went up. In most cases you should be a ble to find a job paying what unemployment pays in much less than 99 weeks, if not you need to move to a different city.

[mriddick]

It sucks some will get 99 weeks and now others are limited, the system could be ran alot better then it is that much is clear.

[yankeedog]

I say take it from the ghetto trash and give it to good people who actually worked

And turn them into the new welfare people.
My cousin has been on unemployment for 2.5 years, he say he wants to see how long he can stay on it.
Hes doing it for fun while others are on unemployment as a job.
Around here we have so many factory jobs to hand out, workers are coming from other states to fill the jobs up!

[Nashorn]

[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;68958]After 99 weeks how much more do you want, eternal unemployment?[/QUOT


No "ASSHOLE" we want Fukin JOBS. In the last 15 years I got laid off from good paying jobs 4 times because of corporate Greed. Yes some asswipe who cant speak English deserved the job more than me.And the companies were not satisified with billions in profits. Yeah there are some people riding the system, But the majority are good people trying to find non-existant work. This time I plan on going back to school, on the governments dime.I spent 20 years in the military before all this, if it were not for my pension Things would be alot worse.So before you start judging us pull you head out of your ass or better yet quit your job and live off your savings and unemployment if you think it is so great you fukin asswipe.

[samiam]

the 99'ers have some tough choices to make (they should have been thinking about it a long time ago) kinda like the Okie migration to California after the combination of the dust bowl and great depression, which begs the question, who shall harvest the grapes of wrath?

[imanaknut]

Why not, what the heck, go ahead and raise my taxes so that those who lost jobs due to no fault of their own, and after a really reasonable time can't find anything, can enjoy a nice set of Christmas gifts on me.

Funny thing. I quit giving gifts exactly 9 years ago when The Lord's gift to me was to take my wife during the time we celebrated the birth of The Son. Oh wait, that is what Christmas is really about, celebrating Jesus Christ and not how much money we spend on gifts to each other.

Oh, and I don't pay taxes anymore because I quit work after paying into a corrupt system for almost all my life. Planned well and not worried about tomorrow.

Also, I do feel for those who got caught in the latest excuse for companies to downsize and make more profits. I was unemployed for several months before finding a job that took me to retirement. For a while it was scary, but eventually I found work.

After hearing how much money people were getting because they lost their job, I can understand why they don't want the free money stopped. Many are making more by not working then they would if they found one of those jobs that illegals are so willing to take.

Sorry for the above, but after a while...

And yes, all welfare should have a mandatory cutoff date.

[Nashorn]

99 weeks, ae you kidding me? I thought it was like 6 months maximum, I guess it went up. In most cases you should be a ble to find a job paying what unemployment pays in much less than 99 weeks, if not you need to move to a different city.

Really, Pay thousanda of dollars to move when you don"t have a job or steady income. What Wonderland do you live in.you my friend are totally clueless or an idiot. And by the way I have 12 weeks left on my 26 week claim thats 6 months for you collage grads. And no I won't be recieving 99 weeks so sleep well.

[Richard Simmons]

Really, Pay thousanda of dollars to move when you don"t have a job or steady income. What Wonderland do you live in.you my friend are totally clueless or an idiot. And by the way I have 12 weeks left on my 26 week claim thats 6 months for you collage grads. And no I won't be recieving 99 weeks so sleep well.

You sure like cussing other for your own misfortune. i've you've been laid off 4 times in 15 years you should have moved in to another field of work or different part of the country. After all this and your just now looking to go back to school and on top of it all you got a retirement to fall back on as well as health benefits and you're whining about unemployment compensation. Give us all a break, drop the profanity and grow a pair.

[Nashorn]

No, I am not whining about it. I trying to set an ASSHOLE like you straight who think people on unenployment are freeloaders. You need to grow up or STFU before opening your mouth about things you know nothing about except from the other side of the keyboard. Mr "I am a Gunsnet member since 1999".

[yankeedog]

No, I am not whining about it. I trying to set an ASSHOLE like you straight who think people on unenployment are freeloaders. You need to grow up or STFU before opening your mouth about things you know nothing about except from the other side of the keyboard. Mr "I am a Gunsnet member since 1999".

You could have worked at a dollor store or a hog farm while going to school instead of unemployment if you really wanted to not be on goverment handouts.
I took a 6month layoff just for the fun of it to get some of my goverment money back in 08.

[Ruskiegunlover]

nashorn, many of us have been on here for a long time, many on here are older, and by the sound of it, quite a bit older then YOU given the way YOU talk on here.

ALL UNEMPLOYMENT IS ANYMORE is just a way for lazy FUCKS to mooch off of hardworking people during bad times. People who make bad decisions, are generally union, and get laid off. Instead of finding 1 or maybe 2 part time jobs to make ends meet while the economy lags, they just kick back on MY fucking back, and let ME support them so they don't have to work. Like EVERY other bullshit socialist program, it began as just a check you got WHILE YOU ACTIVELY SEARCHED FOR WORK, now its just your 'income' while you WAIT for a job. Fuck unemployment. 99 weks? You are telling me you cannot find ANYTHING in 99 weeks? Bullshit. And I have been there, scraping by on NOTHING, living under the poverty line for a year, so go to hell with this bullshit. People can do this if they try......just so many decide NOT to.