Alabama's attempt to create US jobs

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It seems that in Alabama, too, farmers are having a hard time finding people willing and able to do farm work.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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It seems that in Alabama, too, farmers are having a hard time finding people willing and able to do farm work.

Wendy P.

maybe when the unemployment is stoped the unemployed americans will change their minds about what they will or will not do.

[jclalor 12]

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It seems that in Alabama, too, farmers are having a hard time finding people willing and able to do farm work.

Wendy P.

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maybe when the unemployment is stoped the unemployed americans will change their minds about what they will or will not do.

The strange thing is, half of the unemployed workers are Republican, so why are the unemployed Republicans not voluntarily giving up their unemployment payments to pick tomatoes for $24 a day? Republicans talk about the lazy unemployed, until it's them.

Then to top things off, Cain would want these people living on third world wages to subsidize tax cuts for the top 1%.

[billvon 3,111]

>The strange thing is, half of the unemployed workers are Republican,
>so why are the unemployed Republicans not voluntarily giving up their
>unemployment payments to pick tomatoes for $24 a day?

Republicans don't do things like that; they hire illegals to do that for them. (Unless they're running for office; then they fire the illegals and get on a soapbox about how evil that is.)

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>The strange thing is, half of the unemployed workers are Republican,
>so why are the unemployed Republicans not voluntarily giving up their
>unemployment payments to pick tomatoes for $24 a day?

Republicans don't do things like that; they hire illegals to do that for them. (Unless they're running for office; then they fire the illegals and get on a soapbox about how evil that is.)

political right or left does not make someone lazy, giving them free money does.

[jclalor 12]

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political right or left does not make someone lazy, giving them free money does.

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political right or left does not make someone lazy, giving them free money does.

You should try and be more factual, unemployment insurance is not free money.

[D22369 0]

sit and wait?

Unemployment is received as a safety net for being a steady employee - it requires a certain amount of hours in the past year to obtain
you will have to pay back your "free money" if you do not produce at least 3 documented job contacts per week when they ask for your list.

You will lose your unemployment if your do not accept an offer of employment.

its not a perfect system by any means, and may be different in other states, but here in washington quite a few idiots were trying the "sit on ass - collect money) without going out applying - I forget the numbers but it was quite a few who lost their remaining unemployment and had to pay back what they had received.



Roy

They say I suffer from insanity.... But I actually enjoy it.

[Amazon 7]

Yup...

It has also been used as a stop gap for seasonal workers in the logging fishing and construction businesses

I guess all of them are lazy too.

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Unemployment is received as a safety net for being a steady employee - it requires a certain amount of hours in the past year to obtain
you will have to pay back your "free money" if you do not produce at least 3 documented job contacts per week when they ask for your list.

It doesn't take that many hours to get the full benefit, and in the case of California, they haven't asked for and reviewed the job contacts for a very long time. No money to administer.