What would happen if we limited Unemployment Benefits to 3 months?

When you give extension after extension after extension, of course.

Generally it's meant to last 6 months, you're not even supposed to be eligible without significant work history. Pay scales vary from state to state, but it's usually half of your earnings up to some cap. I know Florida's cap is below 40*min wage and I know MA's is somewhere around $550-$600.

Unless someone has a lot of savings they're OK with blowing through, UI isn't really isn't going to keep someone living comfortably. I understand for the first week or two, many people may treat it as a vacation, but there really aren't many people enjoying being out of work for 6+ months.
 
You realize that unemployment is a very common issue, instead of worrying about stuff like this, we should find ways to deal with the much bigger problems with all these crooks in positions of power in our country.
 
Actually CORPORATE welfare neeRAB to be reformed first, along with the entire spending, acquisitions, and contracts process. Untold billions are wasted in poor budgeting practices and operations alone. Also the Bush tax cuts need to fucking go. They weren't really needed then, and they certainly aren't needed now and only serve to stifle the governments ability to collect revenue.
 
Wait, so is it the 26 weeks thing that makes it welfare, or the 'stealing from someone and just handing it to someone else ' (which isn't how unemployment even works)
 
I was kinda in the same boat. I have my degree in business management. A lot of good that does you. My industry crashed and the only jobs I could find were selling cars or insurance. I took a shitty job at a bank and did night school for computer networking for a year. I've got a good job now but it took reinventing myself. Its shitty out there, good luck.
 
I don't know...I felt shitty signing up for it in the first place until someone explained that whole unemployment insurance thing I'd been paying into for the last 20 years. I still felt bad when I actually did sign up, but not like such a slouch.

They could take it away now and it wouldn't matter. I'm *this* close to just jumping off a bridge anyway
 
Fuck unemplyment payments. You hungry? come stand in line like they did in the 30's. here's your soup and piece of bread. Sometimes you have to hit the bottom to be able to push off and get to the top.
 
The way to get the economy going again is to get money flowing. So giving unemployment checks to a bunch of degenerates might not sound great, but you know what? Those people will most likely spend every penny of it and thats what we need right now. We can give money to responsible people through tax cuts and what not, but that money will just sit in investment portfolios which gets us nowhere right now. Anyways, Its not like people are living the high life on unemployment. Its a pretty demeaning lifestyle.
 
I'm fiscally conservative and socially liberal realist. The biggest difference between you and I is that you want to ignore history.

I'm all for limited government, and privatization where it makes sense. The FCC shouldn't have anything to do with regulating content, The FDA is a lot bigger and bureaucratic than it neeRAB to be, the DEA shouldn't exist period.

Unlike you, I recognize that the past 200 years actually happened. I recognize that because of that, some of these governmental institutions and social programs actually came about for good reason. I recognize that you're never going to get rid of the IRS, and that our complex tax codes exists because the dead simple version you'd like doesn't work.

You would have made a great political mind at the turn of the 20th Century, before all of your ideals were proven to not work the way you think they would.
 
You wanna get pissed, look at military disability. Now theres some shit. They get that for life, even if they work, and in a lot of cases its a substantial amount of money. i know way too many people milking that system. But again, atleast it puts money back into the economy.
 
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