The most foolish thing our government can do is extend unemployment benefits for more time. With 10 percent of the USA unemployed, you may think that extending unemployment benafits for an extra 6 months is a good thing and the only way to help the people who are “suffering”
Well that idea is completely false. If somebody loses a job, the suffering occurs in the first weeks or months. It’s the psychological impact of not having a job that hurts us. But after a few weeks pass, most people overcome the initial depression. Now they can go out and fix up their resumes and get themselves out, early in the morning to look for a new job.
Oh and don’t think that the only place to look for jobs is on the internet. That is completly untrue. You can go around door to door and give real people your resume. This actually will show some employers that you are not lazy.
Well then why is it that so many people go for months without finding a job. Is the economy really that bad? I know many companies that are hiring today, I see many job postings on all of the career websites, but nobody seems to find those jobs until their unemployment compensation runs out.
Oh and I know this to be true from my past experience. I remember that I told all of my recruiters not to call me unless the jobs paid well over $15 per hour. Anything less and it was not worth it, because my net paycheck after taxes would be the same as my unemployment check.
I also know so many friends and relatives who also tell me the same thing. For some being unemployed is a good thing. It gives people more time to study, work side jobs for cash and without having to pay taxes. They are all just waiting for their benefits to run out and then they will have a real reason to look for a new job.
I even have a friend who told me last month that now he was just now going to start looking for work, because he had just received his last unemployment check. Well now guess what: He just called me 2 days ago and now he has found a job. It only took him 2 weeks to find it. He is only sad that he will only make $14 per hour and he was getting more money while he was unemployed.
