Update
On waking up this morning, I rethink this post. True, the people below aren’t people I’d normally want to emulate. But these aren’t normal times. So the right reaction to this is yes, but what else do you expect? Can’t expect people to leave all the legal looting to the government…
“If you were making $1 million per year or more, but lost your job, would you file an unemployment claim? Nearly 3,000 American millionaires would have answered “yes” to this question in 2008, according to an article by Ryan J. Donmoyer at Bloomberg. IRS data shows that a whopping 2,840 households earning at least $1 million in 2008 also filed for government unemployment payments that year. There are two sort of immediate questions that arise from this fact: what were they thinking, and should this be allowed?”
What They Were Thinking?
To non-millionaires it might seem absurd that people who had such a staggering income recently would turn to the government for help after losing their jobs. But it shouldn’t. First, most wealthy people didn’t become that way by accident. They tend to be pretty savvy about money. So if the law entitles them to collect unemployment when laid off, then they aren’t the type to turn down free money. Only a fool would do that.”
My Comment:
If it’s foolish for millionaires to turn down government benefits, I suppose it’s insane for school teachers to.
Ah. And I thought there was something about honor in it. Silly me. Time to make a trip to the government trough and see what I’m due for.
Well, it only confirms what I’ve said before.
Except for the rural poor and some pockets of ghetto poverty, except for children, the elderly, the sick, and some unfortunates, the rest of the people who are on the dole now are there because they aren’t willing to work at the part-time jobs out there, they’re not willing to make do with makeshift work. and they’re not willing to change their spendthrift ways. The more they’re given, the more they’ll take.
[I rethought this. I think anger at abuse of the system shouldn’t make us forget that people really are suffering].