Brushfire of Freedom
The Conservative Cowboy
Now if you are following the latest garbage that is spewing from Washington you will know that congress had yet again extended unemployment and Medicare benefits. To be honest with you I think that I would like to get laid off and go on unemployment as it seems that congress will just continue to extended the benefits out and I could sit in my butt go to one or two “interviews” a week and get paid.
Of course I will not do that because I have too much respect for myself and not enough faith that the idiots running things will stay there long enough to really change anything that cannot be fixed. Before I tell you how much money this will cost the taxpayers of this country I want to write about why there is a limit on unemployment benefits, I will sound very blunt and cold hearted in the next few paragraphs so be prepared.
The first and most obvious reason that unemployment benefits are temporary is that getting paid by the government to look for a job should not become a steady income. Secondly it is not just the taxpayer that is fitting the bill but it is also your former company that helps pay for your unemployment benefits. Now as badly as you want them to ‘Pay” for laying you off, they typically had a very good reason to get rid of you, most of the time it is a crunch in the economy, sometimes a company grows too fast, the list can go on and on, but contrary to many people’s beliefs the CEO’s and the presidents of these companies don’t sit in their offices dreaming up way so screw up your life. It is as they say strictly business, the same way that it is strictly business when you decide to leave a company for a different job opportunity. If you live in an “at will” state as I do, you can be hired, fired, promoted, demoted at any time. Now of course we have unions and discrimination laws to deal with but that is how it is supposed to work. Now at the same time the employee can leave at any time with no notice at all. Now if you signed an employee handbook that required you to give two weeks’ notice then you are stuck there, the same way the business would be stuck if they had to deal with a union contract.
Now I want to tell everyone that my wife has been laid off twice in the past three years, so I have seen this first hand. We did not file for unemployment because like responsible adults we had money for a rainy day, even the second time. So back to the big picture here, and the moment where I will sound like and a@#, most of the people that were laid off that had talent have found another job, now they could be underemployed right now but they realize that is better than being on unemployment. Now as to the rest of you either you are not very marketable to a company because of your skills or experience. You see for the past 15 years or so we had companies just get bigger and bigger, and as that happened they also became inefficient, hiring people that they really didn’t need. I know it hurts but reality really does that sometimes, so if your sitting on the couch right now reading this as a break from checking your Facebook and monster accounts then get off you’re a@# and make yourself more marketable to the companies that are hiring I know that they are out there, otherwise settle for a lower paying job because some of a paycheck is better then nothing.
So just in case you’re wondering this extension will cost $10 billion, now this is new money, not part of recovery package money that still has not been completely spent.
The government cannot give you anything that they have not taken away from someone else, please remember that when you think about these issues.
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