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To: Road Walker who wrote (462444)	3/9/2009 7:27:51 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575887

A person may be able to "make" $25k on unemployment in some states, but those states are also high cost states. This is simply not true. For example, take the listing you posted earlier (which is outdated). The Arkansas rate is $409, but after adjustment for the recent changes, to status for a married couple, with a single dependent, that will easily run $550 or $29,000/y. A person can easily live on 29K in this state. Add to that the fact that an unemployed spouse can qualify for a similar amount -- you're talking 58K, and a person can easily own a decent house and a couple of decent cars on 58K and still have money left to party on the weekends. As usual, you just don't know shit from shinola about what you're talking about. Right, we should raise the minimum wage. It's ridiculous that unemployment can, in very rare circumstances, be higher. Don't you agree? It's unimaginable what we pay people for full-time work in this supposedly wealthy country. Personally, I don't believe we need a minimum wage at a time when unemployment is going through the roof. It obviously, intuitively causes greater unemployment. >> What's your income? I doubt I make any more than you do.

To: Road Walker who wrote (462444)	3/9/2009 8:11:18 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575887

" Do you propose that people get no unemployment at all. That they just be thrown into homelessness?" Seems to be precisely what he is proposing. Otherwise, someone might take advantage of the system.

To: Road Walker who wrote (462444)	3/10/2009 10:07:30 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575887

Do you propose that people get no unemployment at all. That they just be thrown into homelessness? Of course not. I propose that people WORK for their unemployment benefits. Instead of getting "free money", they do government or community service work. They are allowed absolute freedom to pursue other work opportunities as necessary. When they apply for unemployment the government has 10 days to find a job for them. If government fails to do so, they receive benefits for watching Oprah. But at any time they can be called up to perform government/community service work. If people are needed to pick up paper on the highway, fine. Water plants at city hall? Fine. Move rockpiles down by the bridge? Fine. You say, "Computer programmers shouldn't be underutilized moving rockpiles at the bridge"? Fine. Put them to work rewriting Medicare's 40-year old computer software. Accountants out of work? They can push paper down at the water works. It doesn't matter. The important thing is people shouldn't be paid for doing nothing.