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Unemployment is better...
because the gov't isn't counting all the unemployed persons. They don't count the millions of people who have given up. This story is fucking disturbing:
Being unemployed for too long reportedly is driving people mad and costing taxpayers billions of dollars in mental illness and other disability claims.
The New York Post reported Sunday that as unemployment checks run out, many jobless are trying to gain government benefits by declaring themselves unhealthy.
More than 10.5 million people -- about 5.3 percent of the population aged 25 and 64 -- received disability checks in January from the federal government, the Post wrote, a 18 percent jump from before the recession.
Among those claiming disability, 43 percent are asking for benefits because of mental illness, the Post wrote. A growing number of those people are older, former white-collar workers.
Disability claims come from the Social Security Trust Fund, which is set to go broke in 2018. Congress last week agreed to dip into the revenue stream to give a 2-percentage point tax break to working Americans.
The Post noted that the more people file for disability claims, the better for the unemployment picture since those people are removed from the jobless rolls.
Reagan led this country through a bad spell with 11% unemployment. He kicked some economic ass: Job creation over 3.5 million FOR ONE YEAR and economic growth 4.5 percent in that same time (8% in some sectors). Obama's increased government hiring (because you know that shit isn't private sector): 1.8 million in three years. He is no Ronnie.
Previously employed people are trying to get SSDI for life. That will fuck us harder than anything we have seen before. We will have to provide for them until they fucking die instead of having them contribute.
This can't go on, people. Please think about the future of the nation, not just your holier-than-thou Utopian political ideals. We have to be smarter than we have been or we are all going down.
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IMaDick
Fuck off,I am a legend !
  
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RE: Unemployment is better...
(02-20-2012 08:34 AM)ramseycat Wrote: Here is a perfect example: My ex has been unemployed for a year now. State Farm had 40 positions open in December/January. I even told him about it. We have both worked in the insurance industry in some capacity since we were in college. We have basically done everything from customer service to sales. I asked him Friday if he ever applied to SF. He said no, that is below my job classification. He has been a Systems Analyst for the last 10 years or so. So I guess collecting $405 a week is better than working as a claim rep or something collecting a real salary, having insurance benes, and a retirement account. He played right into my hands because my attorney told me to ask him that very question so I can testify about what he said at the trial. Gotcha mutha fucka!
I think I would file a petition for you to pay me spousal support.
and then I would revisit selling the mutual property, and when I was done with that I would find some other course to keep your life in a fucked up tail spin.
Some people just don't get it.
a fucking trial for a divorce? what the fuck is wrong with you?
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
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