Awww unemployment checks are the answers.

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Originally Posted by TeyshaBlue

Yeah, me too about 8 years ago. Not all it's cracked up to be.

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That's why it's hard for me to buy the conservative argument that people enjoy milking unemployment. I'm not sure who likes living off 1/4 of what you were making previously especially if you have a family to supprt..

"buy the conservative argument that people enjoy milking unemployment"

the only people who buy that are the assholes in the Repug/Movement Conservative choir

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Originally Posted by George Gervin's Afro

That's why it's hard for me to buy the conservative argument that people enjoy milking unemployment. I'm not sure who likes living off 1/4 of what you were making previously especially if you have a family to supprt..

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Most things you buy on credit allow you to buy insurance that is relatively cheap, that makes your payments if you should become unemployed. That $400+ check weekly can keep many people in a work free vacation. Not really at risk of losing things. No incentive to look for work.

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Originally Posted by George Gervin's Afro

That's why it's hard for me to buy the conservative argument that people enjoy milking unemployment. I'm not sure who likes living off 1/4 of what you were making previously especially if you have a family to supprt..

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Yeah, I've never bought into that argument. I mean, I guess you can, but it aint much of a livin'. That being said, my wife is still unemployed. She has taken some part time jobs, including a census job. Her UI pays the differential between what her job pays and what her UI payment would be if she's not earning much. This action also automatically extends her UI benefits, so in a sense, we are kinda milking the system since she's yet to find another full time position in her field.

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Originally Posted by Wild Cobra

Most things you buy on credit allow you to buy insurance that is relatively cheap, that makes your payments if you should become unemployed. That $400+ check weekly can keep many people in a work free vacation. Not really at risk of losing things. No incentive to look for work.

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That's a very narrow, and somewhat unquantifiable, scenario. I'm sure there are some that are doing that very thing. Many? Pretty relative.

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Originally Posted by TeyshaBlue

That's a very narrow, and somewhat unquantifiable, scenario. I'm sure there are some that are doing that very thing. Many? Pretty relative.

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I don't know. I just know ever time I have bought something with payments, the insurance was available. I bought the insurance once, when I bought a car. When I lost my job, by the time I found work again, my car was paid for.

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Originally Posted by TeyshaBlue

Yeah, I've never bought into that argument. I mean, I guess you can, but it aint much of a livin'. That being said, my wife is still unemployed. She has taken some part time jobs, including a census job. Her UI pays the differential between what her job pays and what her UI payment would be if she's not earning much. This action also automatically extends her UI benefits, so in a sense, we are kinda milking the system since she's yet to find another full time position in her field.

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oh the horrah!

unemployed people can't make their cc payments, probably had all cc's cancelled, debt collectors after them, but WC says they can (ab)use welfare payments just to pay insurance for their NEW credit purchases? GMAFB

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Originally Posted by George Gervin's Afro

oh the horrah!

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Yeah, I know. If she starts having babies, I'm gonna shoot her.:lol