tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post7094028334866650018..comments2024-03-28T20:57:01.458-05:00Comments on driftglass: Crazy Uncle Liberty's Imaginary Moocher Frienddriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-88204708822905191932012-11-20T13:40:23.313-06:002012-11-20T13:40:23.313-06:00And then there is the need for Health Insurance. ...And then there is the need for Health Insurance. In our high-rent area (SF Bay), the max Unemployment Compensation (~ 1 year ago) was $450/week (sometimes $45 more). But as I have a family, with children doing school sports, (and being myself not so young any more) there was no way I could do without health insurance, which under COBRA, cost about $1,450.-/month for a family. So, the Unemployment Insurance mainly paid the health insurance, the ~$300.- remaining certainly not allowing for both food and rent. <br />I certainly was well-motivated to find some work, fast.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49853103526753766422012-11-19T11:31:12.976-06:002012-11-19T11:31:12.976-06:00Bukko,
Would you care to describe the kind of pla...Bukko,<br /><br />Would you care to describe the kind of place $350/week will get you in San Francisco?<br /><br />You can touch on the neighborhood (dirt poor), the type of apartment (studio or 1-bedroom), access to public transit (absolute crap), access to groceries (are you fucking kidding?), etc., etc. And that's assuming your imaginary friend is spending every red cent she gets on rent. It gets quickly worse, right down to homelessness on the extremely mean streets of San Francisco if she happens to want to do things like eat.David Fetterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408194859600882631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49310095113038474412012-11-19T04:29:11.854-06:002012-11-19T04:29:11.854-06:00Anon, not "Ana"...Anon, not "Ana"...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420029088809696342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36565008721434190692012-11-19T00:08:08.222-06:002012-11-19T00:08:08.222-06:00Wow, Ana, why am I not surprised that it's gon...Wow, Ana, why am I not surprised that it's gone DOWN from what it was when I last drew NY UI in 2003! Mighty White of 'em, eh?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420029088809696342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-15771888345088800802012-11-18T07:16:36.493-06:002012-11-18T07:16:36.493-06:00In N.Y. the max benefit is $405.00/week.
In N.Y. the max benefit is $405.00/week.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-58047100762890708622012-11-17T23:14:07.216-06:002012-11-17T23:14:07.216-06:00DG, let me tell you a story that runs counter to y...DG, let me tell you a story that runs counter to your point. It doesn't involve a distant, possibly apocryphal person. It's my wife's best friend in San Francisco who's been scamming the unemployment compensation system and skating for about two years. She used to work as a document processor in an accounting firm that handled tax returns for options traders, an office literally across the street from the S.F. Federal Reserve Bank HQ. The small outfit where she worked got bought out by a bigger fish, and they wanted to double her workload while cutting her pay by 20%. So she quit, with the new peoples' approval, severance pay, and the new owners did not contest her applying for unemployment.<br /><br />This gal was smart, had socked away a lot of money while she was pulling down a 6-figure salary (a rate set in large part because she was having a long-term affair with the married boss.) She wasn't even going to apply for unemployment bennies because she didn't need them, but some other friend talked her into it. Nothing like her old salary, but still in the range of $350 a week.<br /><br />Instead of looking for new work in the financial industry, this mid-50is woman decided she wanted to become a licensed massage therapist. (The legit kind, not a prossie.) For two years, she's been taking training courses, pretty serious about that, but NOT serious about actually lining up clients and setting up a business. She'll talk all day about how she's organizing her latest iPhone to sort calls from people booking massages, but she hasn't done a damn thing to GET people to call. It's procrastination about starting a career that she's not sure she can hack, and now that she's finished with the training, she hardly ever talks about massage.<br /><br />All the while, she's been getting UE cheques but not searching for jobs. She's told us that the advisor at the unemployment office has pooh-poohed the "applying for work" requirement. My wife and I are good liberals, and we're glad to see people getting benefits when they've been sacked like you. But it irks us when we see someone grifting like this, because it is another straw that's helping break the system's back. Sometimes Crazy Uncle Liberty's figments are REAL, man.Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39602778755568369132012-11-17T09:10:54.171-06:002012-11-17T09:10:54.171-06:00And in addition, since Reagan, said unemployment b...And in addition, since Reagan, said unemployment benefits are taxed.<br /><br />Yeah, <i>real</i> high on the piglet.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01347115855111060618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49168197539147641682012-11-16T22:29:31.932-06:002012-11-16T22:29:31.932-06:00Woah, compared to Sand Land you Illinois Socialist...Woah, compared to Sand Land you Illinois Socialist Scum are living high on da hog! Read it and weep(from http://phoenix.about.com): "How much are the unemployment payments in Arizona?<br />The minimum is $60 per week and the maximum is $240 per week (2011)." <br /><br />Yep, we Arizona Socialist Scum get about half of what the rest of this Nayshin gets. Oh well, the winters here ARE awesome!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420029088809696342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-10166252556753795932012-11-16T21:09:40.578-06:002012-11-16T21:09:40.578-06:00Lazy Socialist Scum that have killed Real America....<i>Lazy Socialist Scum that have killed Real America.</i><br /><br />And Obama, Hillary, and Susan Rice had a three-way while they watched <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/breaking-the-president-knew-the-truth-about-benghazi/2012/11/16/39aecaf0-3034-11e2-9f50-0308e1e75445_blog.html" rel="nofollow">the Administration's hit on Ambassador Stevens</a> on live t.v.<br /><br />P.S. The Washington <i>Guardian</i>? <a href="http://www.cjr.org/politics/john_solomon_gives_us_less_tha.php" rel="nofollow">John Solomon</a> has finally found a place he belongs!<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com