Unemployment insurance keeps some people from looking for jobs.
Date: Tuesday March 2, 2010Posted in: Taxes, jobs, justice, legal stuff, unemployment, work from home
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.
Forget Afganistan, We are training terrorists in the USA
Date: Tuesday December 29, 2009Posted in: Iraq War, Politics, Technology, immigration, legal stuff
Each day while we are getting up to go to work or school hundreds of muslim students, mostly Saudi Arabian, Iranian or Iraqui, are heading to a local airport, for flight lessons. Yes and this is not the year 2000. It is 2009 and we are letting them come here for the lessons. Do not ask me why the FBI allows this. I guess they just have to be politically correct.
I live in Miami near the Kendall Tamiami airport. I happen to know several young kids, mostly about 22 years old, where their father are paying lots of money for them to take flight lessons. Maybe this is just an innocent kids desire to learn to fly and be free in the air like a bird.
But maybe, just maybe there is something more sinester going on here. Maybe they are about to be the next wave of Terrorists. With enough flight training and experience they may one day become commercial pilots and with the current shortage of good pilots, they will get the jobs.
Now every TV news and Radio station wants us to think that America is safe, ever since we re-enforced the cockpit doors. But what if one day, that experienced pilot sitting in the locked cockpit decides that it is his day to see Alah and the 1000 virgins?
Our foolish homeland security is so ignorant that they will let this happen. I just hope these kids I know are not going to be the ones! We need to wake up. Even the instructors do not care. Oh and there is a big Muslim school and temple just to the north of Tammiami airport, could this just be an innocent coincidence. Any opinions are welcome here.
20 Percent of Americans are delinquent on their mortgages.
Date: Friday August 21, 2009Posted in: Uncategorized
I just heard on the Radio today that a new report shows 17 percent of Americans, are delinquent on their mortgages and I know this to be accurate. I actually think it is higher in South Florida. I know of at least 1 out of 5 of my acquaintances are not paying their mortgages and yet they all think that they are doing the right thing.
They all have some lawyers who are basically telling them to do this, in order to pressure their banks into giving them a better deal on their loan modifications or to help them to do a short sale. This behavior is shameful and inexcusable. I really consider them as jerks and as you notice I refer to them as acquaintances rather than friends. These people are really fresh.
I told some of them that even if they have a very high mortgage, well then they should try to pay at least half, or make at least one payment every two months. But instead these people are living the good life. They have plenty of money for food, beer and the finest liquors. They are wearing the latest name brand clothing and they go to fine restaurants almost on a daily basis.
Some of these people are not even paying their homeowners association fees, which has led to a recent increase in my fees. This means that I have to pay for their good life.
I still pay my mortgage and other housing related expenses of over $2000 per month, even with a temporary pay cut, I still keep paying. This sometimes means that my family barely has money to buy food, other than the bare necessities, we live each month pay check to paycheck, but we still pay our mortgage on time every month. We believe that sacrifice shows integrity and that is something that these other people lack.
Now the worst part is that some new laws, recently passed by congress are actually helping these people. They are living off of my future tax dollars and a hyper inflation that is bound to come rolling out in the near future. Actually it is already beginning as food and gas prices are slowing creeping up.
I am not an evil person, but I really hope that somehow the banks take away some of these homes, rather than giving these people a modified loan. At least one of them needs to learn a lesson and then pass it on to the rest of their circle of friends and family.
