When did we become a country where the millionaires are jealous of the people on food stamps? A country that thinks teachers and fire fighters are soaking us dry? A country that thinks the richest who are paying the lowest taxes in 80 years are the ones being beaten up?

Wanna hear a crazy coincidence? Everyone I've known who's been on unemployment found a job the week their benefits ran out.

born_yesterday: I've said it before, I'll say it again: they are the children of Mammon



You mean these people?

Well if the poor is living it up then why don't you join their ranks you poor abused millionaire.

randomjsa: This does however create a lot of under employment but under employment is better for society as a whole that unemployment.

Tell that to the people who can't make enough money to feed their kids, esp when minimum wage doesn't even cover the cost of living for a single person in many areas.

Maximum unemployment in CA is $450/week, paid every 2 weeks. The benefit amount, however, is based on your income for the previous 3 quarters. In other words, you had to have been earning enough to qualify for the maximum. If you worked a minimum wage job, you won't get the maximum benefit. You have to look for work while you're collecting benefits in order to keep qualifying.
There have been times I've been out of work and collected unemployment. As for living the good life sitting around collecting UI instead of working, I could conceivably make more (straight time, overtime, double time if it's a long day, and they usually are) in one day than I would in one week of UI. Then there's also the issue of fringe benefits. My health insurance coverage is based on how many hours I work (400 hours in every 6 month period to continue coverage) so if I don't work and just collect UI, I lose my health insurance. My retirement and pension plus are also tied into how many hours I work. I don't work, I don't get to retire.
All for that sweet $450/week.
$450, I know, sounds like a lot of money to a lot of folks. I understand. Cost of living being what it is, that money doesn't stretch far around here.
However, that $450 a week is still a drop in the bucket compared to the $40 million a year Rush gets.

Yeah, Rush...I remember the bountiful life I lead for two years on sporadic employment after I got downsized from my job of 9 years. Man...those were the good old days!

My fat $325 weekly check covered half my house payment. Since I lost my company car when i received my lay off letter, my savings had to go to purchase a car. Oh...I did become rather fond of lights, water, heat...those phat ass luxuries my unemployed self chose not to forgo....one of those unemployment checks had to cover those.

I'm telling ya...it was an absolute thrill when I'd have to withdraw from my IRA monthly just to cover expenses. My nipples would harden at the thought of shopping at the thrift stores to buy interview clothes for jobs that 5 other people were competing for. Don't even get me started about the daily excitement of hoping I didn't get sick or need a hospital visit, since my indulgent unemployed lifestyle didn't allot for that frivolity known as health insurance

fark you up the ass with a sandpaper condom, you pathetic piece of putrified shiat!

Here in Maryland it maxes out at $430 a week. Considering how damn expensive it is to live around here it doesn't go very far if you are living on your own and especially if you have children.

Gwendolyn: Here in Maryland it maxes out at $430 a week. Considering how damn expensive it is to live around here it doesn't go very far if you are living on your own and especially if you have children.

Considering rent in anything resembling a safe neighborhood runs about $800 a month...yeah.

Weaver95: This is the face of modern Christianity folks.

Since you mentioned Christianity...
You recommended reading The Family, and thanks, it really is a great read and very enlightening.
Let me recommend to you Under the Banner of Heaven.

/hang in

intelligent comment below: Noam Chimpsky: Wanna hear a crazy coincidence? Everyone I've known who's been on unemployment found a job the week their benefits ran out.


I'm calling bullshiat mainly because nobody would be friends with such a hateful pathetic troll like yourself.

Took me about a year to find work, and yet I still had benefits for another 3 months. But I found steady work.

Turns out, if you've been unemployed for awhile, a lot of people don't want to hire you. Imagine that.

Rush, I say this from the bottom of my heart: I hope some person who ended up on the street because their meager benefits ran out because of the policies you support and the vile piece of trash politicians you stump for murders you in a dark alley and uses what's in your wallet to feed their family. I really hope this. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished, you disgusting waste of amino acids.

Barricaded Gunman: About the time Ronald Reagan made up "welfare queens" and other "poor people get all the breaks" nonsense to begin normalizing the idea that it was somehow patriotic for the wealthiest Americans to pay as little into the system as humanly possible.

I guess it's time for the obligatory:

firefly212: We all pay into unemployment insurance... workers, employers... we all pay for it. Why is it that whenever we come to collect from the insurance we pay for, "conservatives" get all up in arms? The reality is these people on unemployment benefits, regardless of how Mr. Limbaugh feels about it, paid for that insurance... they paid for that safety net. People like BravadoGT go on encouraging people to work under the table without paying those kinds of benefits (like illegal workers), but committing a felony isn't really an answer to why taxpayers shouldn't get what they pay for.

My personal favorite is when conservatives start trying to take away VA benefits. It's like they care about soldiers, until they come home and actually need something.

Weaver95: not only is Limbaugh mad that people aren't suffering, he wants to make unemployment as painful and degrading as humanly possible. This is the face of modern Christianity folks. I can't make this shiat up. this is who they are and what they believe in. if you are weak, they will crush you. if you are down on your luck, they will kick you harder. if you turn the other cheek, they will slap it.

I wrote whipped up two different replies to this, unsatisfied with each. So I'll just say this:

THIS

intelligent comment below: Noam Chimpsky: Wanna hear a crazy coincidence? Everyone I've known who's been on unemployment found a job the week their benefits ran out.


I'm calling bullshiat mainly because nobody would be friends with such a hateful pathetic troll like yourself.

Who said anything about "friends", intelligent comment below? I'm talking about the assholes I've fired who went on unemployment.

What a sack of shiat. A guy worth hundreds of millions is claiming that people on unemployment insurance have it too good? What a sick fark.