I beg your pardon Dave, but being on unemployment is no party. Apparently, you have been fortunate enough to not experience this. I was laid off and out of work for 7 months with no reserves. God provided for me and my daughter during this time. You try loosing 85% of your income and see if you can keep your mortgage and utilities paid with no reserves. I just completed a divorce when it happened. My ex and the attorneys took all my reserves. I was left with all the bills and a daughter to provide for. I kept my bills paid for 7 months and paid Cobra Insurance without borrowing any money. I looked for a job day and night up to 20 hrs a day, seven days a week, doing web searches, applying online, doing door to door visits to companies, and making phone calls. I contacted every friend I had and made new ones looking for work. There was no job to be had. During those 7 months, I had the offer of one interview for a $10/hr job with a 100 mile a day commute. You do the math, I would have been paying them to do them a favor and lost my critical benefits. I have an extremely wide skill set. I was even turned down for a maintenance job in a paint plant. I was even given a competency test as well as a drug screen. I know I passed both with flying colors. I'm qualified to do any job in that plant, including running it. People would not even talk to me much less call for an interview or make a job offer. I even told some of my friends who were plant managers, I'd pick orders for them and if their system went down, they could count on me to bring it up. Still no bites. I did anything and everything I could to survive. Finally after 7 months, I got my first real interview and I was hired because I am so well qualified. The pay is only 60% of what I was making but I can work with that.
I know there are some that take advantage, however, at this point in time, most are not. People are loosing their homes and can't feed their families. Driving through Atlanta I've seen many people sleeping under bridges. I'd never noticed them before, but there are so many now, you can't miss them. Drive through any major city and look under the bridges as you pass by. You'll see bedding where newly homeless people sleep.
So Dave, I'm one of the A Holes, you're talking about. I had never been out of a job in my life. I'm 49 years old, college educated and have extensive experience. I drew unemployment, got food stamps and worked with the bank on my mortgage. Only by the grace of God did I make it.
When you're sitting at home in your nice warm house with your family close by, you consider, it could be you on the outside. It could all go away in an instant. It could be your house with an open top roll off dumpster in your driveway and your things dumped inside. Maybe then you will learn some compassion for the less fortunate.
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