15 million unemployed; still refuse jobs

[$tevie]

You can live on $528 a month? Remember the healthcare subsidies ain't coming to YOU.

[RgrF]

Once again Dakota flunks 5th grade reading comprehension, it's $528 a week not a month and then goes on to conflate non-spendable health care benefits with spendable income.

The kind of fuzzy thinking that makes people happy he's not trying to argue their side of an issue.

[$tevie]

Of course it's per week, so the joke is on me as well for repeating what Dakota typed.

More or less $25,000 a year ASSUMING one is collecting the MAXIMUM. For as long as it lasts.

[Doc]

Wow!

Catfish can get really big!

[$tevie]

Dakota needs to stop being jealous because someone somewhere is collecting unemployment benefits and instead Thank God he has a job. Although I'd like to see him lose it so he could give us a first hand report from the fields of California.

[Mac1337]

RgrF wrote:
Once again Dakota flunks 5th grade reading comprehension, it's $528 a week not a month and then goes on to conflate non-spendable health care benefits with spendable income.

The kind of fuzzy thinking that makes people happy he's not trying to argue their side of an issue.

You can't be too smart and horribly dumb at the same time. $528 a week(which I obviously meant because of all subsequent figures ) strengthens my argument. So don't wet yourself just yet. They are collecting close to $40,000 a year staying home.

And you want us to believe you are a business owner? You actually welcome competition for workers from the government at $18 and hour? Your workers are idiots to be working for you.

[Gutenberg]

It was an excellent honeycrisp apple, Grace, but it was New York State.

[cbelt3]

Dak----
OK, I get it. You don't believe in extended unemployment benefits. We've had that discussion. I'm with you on that topic.

However.... the lack of 'good paying jobs' where people live is the REAL issue, not the availability of a few temporary poorly paying jobs where people do NOT live. And yes, if there were enough good paying jobs, the workforce would migrate. Ask all the WWII displaced persons why they moved to the Rust Belt post WWII. Good... Paying ... Jobs !

[Mac1337]

I have no arguments cbelt on having good paying jobs. The point I am making here is a narrow one and it relates to entry level jobs. I am saying that the government has effectively established an $18/hr minimum wage rate that employers have to compete with. I see dozens of help wanted signs just driving around that go unfilled.

Unfortunately a bunch of ideologues are running the economy. Once again North Dakota economic boom was in the papers. Haliburton is building prefabricated towns just to house the new hires, with no stimulus. Will Obama pay them a visit? Of course not. Only if they made CFLs with his stimulus dollars he might go.

[Doc]

Dakota wrote:
I have no arguments cbelt on having good paying jobs. The point I am making here is a narrow one and it relates to entry level jobs. I am saying that the government has effectively established an $18/hr minimum wage rate that employers have to compete with.

If you're an entry-level workers then there's no "competition" at all from unemployment benefits because there are no such benefits for that class of people.

If you haven't worked and paid into unemployment for the entire benefits period in the year prior to your application then you don't qualify for benefits.