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Denton, you a fellow sufferring Mets fan?
“take something people have been doing or eating for gazillions of years and reinvent it as absurdly and pretentiously as you possibly can. drive it into their suckers , eh i mean customers mind that they have never and will never experience it like that. ”
this is VERY true
I have a friend who thinks we should temporarily drop the social security age to 55. At a drastically reduced rate, obv. But this way, a lot of the older job seekers from that 60 minutes piece, for example, might consider taking the deal, saving their 401Ks, and just starting over in a place that is cheaper than, say, Silicon Valley.
Also, you clear a bunch of job seekers off the deck.
I don’t really know if it makes sense, but it’s an idea.
(And about the 60 minutes episode, I would sell the fancy house before I cashed out the college funds, but I felt for that family even still.)
Rob – yes it’s scary out there. I’ve had a few interviews and close calls but am still jobless – I think it’s tougher when you are an older worker
Bxgrl/CH/MM – donatella told me about the fiveoclockclub.com and I think it’s an amazing website filled with great resources – you guys have to check it out
(well CH you don’t need it)
If you want to get technical, employees do pay for that benefit via lower wages. Imagine how much more employers would pay if they didn’t have to pay into unemployment insurance and their share of SSI and other payroll taxes.
“The Steinbrenner philosophy was buy enuf stars and a team will follow. That philosophy continues, and only works part some of the time. You cannot buy a team, you can only make a team. ”
i really don’t think the steinbrenners care THAT much about winning. i think their philosophy is buy enough stars to keep the seats filled, people buying team merchandise.
sports are a business, first and foremost.
for those of you out of work, you really need to tap into some way to exploit moonfaces. they are SO easy to part with them and their parents money, im sure there are businesses that dont exist yet that’d love to just fawn over and hand over their allowances. usually the business model is simple. take something people have been doing or eating for gazillions of years and reinvent it as absurdly and pretentiously as you possibly can. drive it into their suckers , eh i mean customers mind that they have never and will never experience it like that.
you could probably make tons of money peddling your own line of gourmet tampons or something!
*rob*
I was always self-employed so never had unemployment (or retirement or, or, or) but lots of autonomy & tons of fun.
People are cracking me up today re unemployment insurance. Is anybody reading what I write? Really, not only have I furnished the links to prove what I am saying, I am an employer myself.
“As for paying for 25-30 yrs etc, I think that’s a good argument – the more people paid in the more they should get out.”
People (employees) have paid in not one dime! However, the more people EARN the more they get out, up to a fairly low cap.