How Many People Are Not Even Looking For Work

[djnemo65]

How carefully did you read your link First? It profiles a laid off software engineer who, while having started looking for a job already, is cherishing the extra time he gets to spend with his kids; a laid off 41 year old who hasn't even started collecting unemployment yet; and an educational trainer who is now kind of a housewife (and also presumably not on unemployment).

As usual, you started with your political belief - welfare is bad - and worked backwards, not seeming to notice or care that this article has little to do with your actual argument.

[Miller101]

Originally Posted by EternalEnigma21

I know for a fact that there are plenty of employers that will go out of their way to fire someone to avoid paying more for unemployment insurance.

And if anything THAT is taking advantage of the system! Not somebody that just made the mistake of working for a CEO that didn't know how to run a company!

[FRPLG]

I didn't read the article so I wont comment on it. I have seen several comments though alluding that "people aren't happy not working." I'd say SOME people aren't happy not working. There are plenty of people who don't have jobs who would prefer for it to stay that way though. At any given time this country has 4-6% unemployment and that is historically considered as zero or cyclical unemployment because either people have left jobs on their own to look for another or simply don't want to work. The question is how many of these non-workers are collecting unemployment. It probably isn't all but it isn't none either. I personally think if you are out of a job and collecting unemployment you should be working your ass off to find a job ASAP no matter what the job market is like. In fact that is your job when you don't have one.

[saden1]

I don't know about you lot but I'm gonna collect welfare/unemployment damn it and sit at home, enjoy a icy cold Starbucks beverages, martinis, and arugula salad.. I love socialism! This is the life...American I can believe in! Change I can believe in!

[EternalEnigma21]

Originally Posted by saden1

I don't know about you lot but I'm gonna collect welfare/unemployment damn it and sit at home, enjoy a icy cold Starbucks beverages, martinis, and arugula salad.. I love socialism! This is the life...American I can believe in! Change I can believe in!

arugula sucks, but you got the idea...

[Beemnseven]

firstdown, were you listening to Limbaugh today?

[724Skinsfan]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

firstdown, were you listening to Limbaugh today?

Was he still talking about that today? He talked about it out yesterday too. Maybe he's taking it easy before the address to Congress rebuttal. Rush is good for entertainment and he knows it.

[dmek25]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

firstdown, were you listening to Limbaugh today?

nah, he had Bill O'Reilly on

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

firstdown, were you listening to Limbaugh today?

No actually I was listening to Tony Macini who is a local guy who comes on in the morning (who voted for Obama) and he was talking about this article. I do listen to Rush some but I'd say at most an hour a week. While I like some of what Rush talks about there is only so much of the same talk I can listen to over and over again. Its like talking about Ramsey over Brunell when its our 20th thread on the subject.

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by firstdown

No actually I was listening to Tony Macini who is a local guy who comes on in the morning (who voted for Obama) and he was talking about this article. I do listen to Rush some but I'd say at most an hour a week. While I like some of what Rush talks about there is only so much of the same talk I can listen to over and over again. Its like talking about Ramsey over Brunell when its our 20th thread on the subject.

Man, I hear you. When he uses the term "drive-by media" endlessly, after a while you start to glaze over. On any issue, you always know where he's coming from, so for me, most of his show isn't worth listening to.

Now that football season is over, I haven't listened to any sports talk radio. It's back to political talk for me. So I do find myself listening more to Rush and Boortz and some of Hannity (though there's really not much I can take of him). I'm with Rush on economic issues, tax policy and overall growth of government -- but I was against the war, and I'm a libertarian on social issues. I was, and still am a Ron Paul supporter.

I'm a big fan of Macrini in the morning. You may have heard me call in from time to time. Sometimes I wish he would be a little more serious, not goof off as much and talk more politics. Either way, I like his contrarian stance on things.