More Than a Million May Lose Jobless Aid Due to Deficit Concern

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It's so easy to be a critic...

The fact of the matter is that there are few employers who are going to hire someone who is long-term unemployed and at a discount to their previous salary.

The adage that it's easier to find a job when you have one is exactly why these employers won't hire them, they are a flight risk. Losing an employee is always disruptive and expensive, so why hire someone who's guaranteed to walk at the first opportunity to get a bump in salary?

Second, a lot of the comments here are quite obviously from people who don't have first or second hand experience with what it's like to be a formally well-compensated employee who's been applying for every opening out there yet hasn't been able to even land an interview.

It's tough out there for the 40+ crowd. I know a few, and it sucks to see what they're going through.
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That's all true. But it doesn't mean the high-end labor market is coming back anytime soon. If at all.

Does that mean we should pay these guys 80% of their highwater mark, into perpetuity, because we can't expect them to trade down, and actually work for a living?

That's life. We all have to work. God knows, I've worked a few embarrassing jobs.

The labor market has to readjust to new economies.
 
I do support unemployment over bailouts, tho.

25K per person, per year. Then let the whole system implode.

That way, 1/3rd of the Country doesn't starve.
 
Quote from achilles28:

I do support unemployment over bailouts, tho.

25K per person, per year. Then let the whole system implode.

That way, 1/3rd of the Country doesn't starve.
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Just give them a land grant. One per family. Give them seeds and teach them how to farm. They'll never starve.
 
my question still remains. I know it's tough out there to find work for a lot of people. I know first-hand But why is the government paying all these people to do nothing? It's going to take some creativity, but it does seem feasible that we create jobs and actually get some shit done, rather than handing out money for nothing... over and over. One way or another that has to end
 
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Just give them a land grant. One per family. Give them seeds and teach them how to farm. They'll never starve.
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and a mobile home next to the land? the new farmers do need to sleep somewhere
 
Quote from Ivanovich:

Just give them a land grant. One per family. Give them seeds and teach them how to farm. They'll never starve.
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That's been my direction, lately. Of course, erecting shelter, electricity, water, access to medical, schools, etc factors in. Americans will be much better off if they've got some land, with animals & crops, imo.
 
Quote from Ivanovich:

Just give them a land grant. One per family. Give them seeds and teach them how to farm. They'll never starve.
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Ivan, we've reached the point in time where the masses aren't smart enough, let alone motivated, to read the seed packet's instructions.
Not blaming public education, rather, their parents.
 
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