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Extending unemployment insurance actually creates jobs!!!!

I'm torn. The money goes back into the economy, instead of other wasteful gov programs. But why look for work if you get a gov paycheck.

Ya, that's the torn part. Yet there's always gonna be a percentage who really needs help. Maybe if they got a budget per year, and benefits ended when it was gone?

there's a separate fund for that..... just gotta apply and follow thru...

As a college student for Nixon and founding member of Friends of Dan Quayle I hadn't planned it that way, Frank. I think my epiphany began under Bush Sr when he alienated us Reaganites with his one world political shiite & contempt for conservatives and continued when I told junior to take a hike after his disastrous first term & threw a White House invite into the garbage pail where it belonged.

I think I'm somewhat justified in taking the road I took, and no, I don't think that we're in deep crapola at all. lol I feel good albeit a little disappointed by the institutional lies however.

I heard they are now setting up pension plans for long term unemployed. They pay nothing in and after 5 years they are fully vested and can withdraw 150% of their unemployment for life. This way it will look like unemployment is lowered but really they will be pensioned off.

It's true I read it on the internet.

One type of unemployment benefit system that might work well would be with the level of benefits decreasing each week.

say 100% of benefit level first week, 98% second week and so on to 0 % on the fiftyfirst week.

As an employer for over 35 years operating multiple bricks and mortar locations, IMO the whole system is a sham.

In NC and SC, I have fired more than several employees for cause and they get benefits. Last one I documented fraud, violations of state regulations, forgery of required state records, a number of reasons that any sane person would have fired them. Was allowed to send the documents in but was not allowed to be at a hearing to present my case. The former employee was granted benefits.

I used to give people a shot at proving themselves. Hire them part time, see if they can help build revenue and increase profits by their performance. Sometimes that worked out, sometimes it didn't.

Now, knowing that anyone who is sorry, doesn't show up for work and is fired for cause and yet will still increase my unemployment tax rate do you think I give anybody a shot? Hell no. I go to great lengths to not hire anybody until I really need them and only if they are a known quantity to me. You have no experience and wonder how you can get experience if can't get hired without experience? Your problem, not mine.

Whatever happened to individuals being responsible for their life and their actions?

Sure, there are people in real need. There always have, and there always will be. Should these people not have saved for a rainy day? Why should someone that they worked for, or the other citizens of this country support them?

Yep, life's a bitch. Anyone that thinks otherwise isn't being realistic.

Increasing government intrusion, regulations, paperwork, etc, is making it harder and harder for small businesses to operate.

I cannot see how increasing the burdens on small businesses will create any jobs.

I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I think they are all crooks. I am far more of a libertarian than any other persuasion.

Life's tough, be prepared. Stuff happens. Sure, I am prejudiced because I am an employer. Who do you think is paying for all of this largess?

Well, some of it is being paid by the great printing press of the Federal Reserve. Which means that we will all pay in the end.

Bottom line, individuals are responsible for their life and their situation, not their employer or the government.

IMO, anyhow.

Supposedly. Last time in SC, I was not allowed to do so and told I did not have the right. I was allowed to send in documentation, which was quite well prepared. I was not allowed to be present when the former employee was confronted with the documentation.

What happens in my experience in both North Carolina and South Carolina has been that they find in favor of the employee unless they shot and killed someone in the workplace.

I lost several that I believed I should have easily won, got quite legal in my firing of employees, documenting warnings, etc. Took managers and other employees as witnesses to the hearings when I was allowed to do so.

Same result.

SC actually changed their laws recently to prevent someone being fired for cause from drawing unemployment benefits. They did this because the fund was going bankrupt and required a federal bailout that has to be paid back.

I do think the declining benefit system would work.

There are procedures for an employer to follow to dispute a claim that supposedly work.

it's a kangaroo court in favor of the employee.

F!ck em, it's a better business practice and increases my bottom line to be positioned as I now am on this matter.

Sucks for the people who come by and send me unsolicited resumes, though.

Not my problem.

republicans no heart, democrats no brains welcome to the ultimate dog and pony show. friends of dan dan quayle ! any friend of dan dan is a friend of mine

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now that you mention his name, i wonder what he is doing now.