I heard that you dont get money if you are unemployed in the USA.

I was shocked!

Is this true?

-- PUNKER (GREG_PISAHOV@HOTMAIL.COM), January 13, 2005

Answers

Not true. However, you have to have worked in order to be eligible for unemployment benefits. Max amount is $410 per week. Actual amount is based on last quarter earnings. Where did you hear that crap?

-- KOBE SBM (kobesbm@kobehq.com), January 13, 2005.

jerry told him this...

-- sdqa (sdqa@sdqa.com), January 13, 2005.

jerry seinfeld?

-- (bl@h.com), January 13, 2005.

I DONT KNOW HIS LAST NAME

I THINK SO

-- PNKER (ERGE@TFYT.COKPK), January 13, 2005.

what's the deal with unemployment?? your not working... Why are you getting paid??

-- Jerry (Jer@ry.com), January 13, 2005.

However, you have to have worked in order to be eligible for unemployment benefits.

Good point....

-- KOBE SBM (kobesbm@kobehq.com), January 13, 2005.

are you complimenting yourself?

-- (Bl@h.com), January 13, 2005.

Actually, I was complimenting Jerry.

-- KOBE SBM (KOBESBM@KOBEHQ.COM), January 13, 2005.

Not true. However, you have to have worked in order to be eligible for unemployment benefits. Max amount is $410 per week. Actual amount is based on last quarter earnings. Where did you hear that crap?

-- KOBE SBM (kobesbm@kobehq.com), January 13, 2005.

However, you have to have worked in order to be eligible for unemployment benefits.

Good point....

-- KOBE SBM (kobesbm@kobehq.com), January 13, 2005.

i don't think you were complimenting jerry kobe....

-- sdqa (sdqa@sdqa.com), January 14, 2005.

Kobe sbm, I am wondering if u watch any t.v.? U seem the type to think it is a waste of time. this isn't meant to be insulting.

-- (bl@h.com), January 14, 2005.

Youre right. I leave the TV-based "entertainment" to the masses, because I dont like commercials. To me, they are the analogy to popups on a website. I only watch news sources, science channels, an occasional movie, and anything having to do with Star Trek, Stargate, or other shit on the Sci-Fi Channel. Otherwise, I make a playlist on my computer and run it to my entertainment center. I also read a LOT. No insult taken

-- KOBE SBM (kobesbm@kobehq.com), January 14, 2005.

Thanks for the interesting response. I argee with u. I also enjoy scifi. It is my fave and I didn't know it. I enjoy Sci fi that is Urban, "the future sucks" type, and there's prob some war going on. It's my belief, that about only 5 good movies come out in theaters, over a year's time. I will leave u alone now.. ty 4 duh reply.

-- (BL@h.com), January 14, 2005.

I watch all that SBM watches with one addition. Cartoons... sometimes you just need to relax and watch someones head get smashed with an anvil!

-- Dick Tator (inneedofliberty@yahoo.com), January 14, 2005.

ummmmmm ooooo K

-- (wtf@wtf.com), January 15, 2005.

Yeah, I admit I love cartoons too...but I dont watch the "new" ones. They are all so fucking dumbed down! What happened to intelligent cartoons like Johnny Quest, the original Scooby Doo, all of the Loony Toones characters like Bugs, Daffy and the like. They ruined it by creating "Tiny Toons", and all this stupid anime crap. I used to LOVE Speed Racer, Gigantor, and the ultimate....The Thunderbirds!

-- KOBE SBM (kobesbm@kobehq.com), January 17, 2005.

What about South Park???

-- Anti-Bush (comrade_bleh@hotmail.com), January 17, 2005.

If you don't work, you don't eat. That's how it should fucking work. The only reason that we have welfare and bs like that is so that the economy can still maintain itself.

-- cha0ticz (LordBrent@gmail.com), January 23, 2005.

What about the people who work, but recieve such a menial salary that they can't afford to eat? Most airline pilots' wages are low enough to qualify them for food stamps (although if the companies find out their employees are picking up their foodstamps they fire them...wouldn't want to it to get out that the people flying your plane might not have eaten in several days...that would be bad for buisiness). Real wages have declined over the past thirty years. Quite a few people DO work, but still can't make ends meet. What do you say to them?

-- Anti-Bush (comrade_bleh@hotmail.com), January 23, 2005.

College kids think that a degree is a get out of work free pass, and the economy is showing it. Business are paying more to the ditch diggers than they are to the jobs requiring degrees just because the demand for a ditch digger and the unwillingness to dig ditches from these pampered American teenagers are more than ever. I don't know about you guys, but if I could either A) have a desk job that I got paid 10.00 an hour and it be an easy job or B) dig ditches for 15-20 an hour and bust my ass, I'd be the one with the shovel. If someone is willing to work hard, they can make more than ends meat. That's just how it is. You gotta be a go-getter and willing to do things you don't want to do, work jobs you don't want to work.

-- cha0ticz (LordBrent@gmail.com), January 24, 2005.

the last time i checked, you don't get unemployment like you get welfare. when you work for a company, the company pays into unemployment and when you leave the company, as long as you initially worked there for a set time, such as 6 months, then you receive the unemployment pay. it's not like everyone gets unemployment either. some factors can disqualify you. most times people just get a new freakin job. and by the way, anyone can make a living in this country. just look at how many immigrants started off with 3 dollars in their packets and their grandkids are living the life in the suburbs now. all it takes is hard work.

-- rina (hellorina@aol.com), January 27, 2005.

sdqa, punker Whats the problem, you don't want to get a real job? You can just sell your ass, aren't you all about fornication anyway?

-- kat (riesoracle@hotmail.com), January 27, 2005.