(10-24-2011, 12:55 AM)DeeBye Wrote:(10-24-2011, 12:37 AM)Treesh Wrote: I have no real point to this post other than just a minor annoyance that unemployment can pay more than minimum wage so I don't feel too badly for folks when they say they can't get a job (that they want) while still getting paid for being unemployed.
Not sure how it is in the US, but in Canada unemployment pays 55% of your last working wages. That's quite a hit.
I hate the attitude that some people have of those on unemployment. They aren't getting free handouts. They are using the system exactly how it was designed to be used. Do these people even know how unemployment works? You pay into it while working, just in case you need to collect from it if you lose your job. Do some people take more than their fair share? Sure, but that thing isn't unique to unemployment and there is no way to solve the problem of greed.
It is quite a hit and I never got angry at any of my friends who ended up out of work and still making more than I am. It just bothers me a bit that folks seem to feel so much is their right rather than a privilege, that luxuries become needs, so when they do take a hit in the wallet that's more than what they are used to it becomes "Oh the world isn't fair! I can't live off of this!" when there are so many others who are living off of less every day (although in my case, it's because of my own choices and actions so I really can't complain that I have it bad. I've got everything I need and I love my life. =) ). And some of those same people are the ones who fight against anyone else getting to taste some of those little luxuries, like not having to worry about being able to pay for regular doctor/dentist checkups or choose between eating and a doctor's visit.
Just a little rant against the whole "I am undone for I have not everything I'm used to, but it's still far more than a lot of other people have".
Edit: Missed a couple of keystrokes here and there. I know, I know. It's horribly shocking.
Intolerant monkey.