OT: Kentucky Loser

[Steve]

Glad you've had continued employment. But, should you lose your job, I trust you'll not take the handout.

[Mark & Juanita]

Well, that and the fact that the original occurrence of that statement came in a sequence in which the statement was made that it would make more sense to use some of the unspent Porkulus funds to pay for this extension of benefits rather than to create even more new debt, then the statement was made that jobs were available if one looked hard enough to which Lew replied:

"Spoken like a truly pathetic bigot.

Unemployment payments come from unemployment insurance funds and are not a handout."

My point with my original statement was the fact that those unemployment payments are NOT coming from insurance funds since those funds are now depleted. Those extended unemployment benefits are, at this time a handout, and at the minimum are taking money from someone else, who, given the current debt situation, has yet to be born let alone work a single day of his/her life. The question raised by the congressman is still valid -- why add even more to this debt when unspent Porkulus funds are still available?

[Gordon Shumway]

I am retired now. I have paid into that fund my entire life. Someone else has gotten the money that I worked hard for. If I had the money I paid into the fund it would be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Having said that I could have retired a few years earlier if I didn't have to support some Democrat.

[GarageWoodworks]

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Waaaah! Suck it up tough guy.

[GarageWoodworks]

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I hope you're not collecting that socialist hand-out social security are you?

Get back to work you lazy ass.

[Gordon Shumway]

Is that another compliment?

[GarageWoodworks]

aid:

Are you collecting the social security hand-out?

[Gordon Shumway]

You need to understand that it isn't a handout. The tax we all must pay for SSI is worse even than the payment for unemployment -- you will never get out of it what you paid in to it either. If the people were allowed to invest that money on their own we would be far better off. After we die that investment would still be there for your family. All that you paid in to SSI evaporates upon your death.

To answer your question, no, I won't be eligible for six more years.