Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

[libramunoz]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Been watching the thread for awhile now. The bolded text is where I'm at. I understand the excuses I'm hearing, but I don't consider them valid. When libra (for example) said she's only had two interviews in the course of three months, yet doesn't feel she's responsible at all for her financial situation, I understood that she felt as if she had no responsibility for her situation, but I disagreed.

I can see that this is a very personal and emotionally charged topic. And it's not that I don't understand that these folks are experiencing real emotional pain -- I get that. But at some point, we all have to take responsibility for our actions and inactions.

What's funny is that they actually think what you or I do is even relevant to the conversation. Here we are trying to make the very valid point that if one is out of work for more than a year, (or a lengthy period of time along those lines) that they might bear some responsibility for that -- not an earth shattering proposition.

-- and if you're really smart, be like PIKA and live in a place where the jobs are, like Texas, Oklahoma, D.C., the Dakotas, etc.

Kevin, I never said that I didn't feel responsible for MY financial situation!

What I was frankly saying was that when you don't have a job, you worry about how you are going to pay YOUR bills.

Now as far as me feeling that I have no responsiblity for my situation, like I said before, I didn't tell my ex-boss to steal 8 million dollars and I didn't tell her to bilk Medicaid and Medicare. THAT was somthing that I HAD NO CONTROL OVER!

I'm sorry if you REFUSE to understand this. It's something that you NEED to deal with, NOT ME.

Originally Posted by Kevin

-- and if you're really smart, be like PIKA and live in a place where the jobs are, like Texas, Oklahoma, D.C., the Dakotas, etc.

Dude, I LIVE in TEXAS already. The unemployment rate is 8.2% (just got the paper today) and sorry, the jobs aren't here either.

But more to the point, I'm sorry, if you don't have employment where you are at, what would prompt you to just up and jump somewhere else if you don't have a job awaiting you there? Yes it can be and has been done before, but people usually don't leave one job before they have another. That's just what "normal" people do, it is an old saying.

What you are seeming to be unable or unwilling to do is understand that people are trying and doing what they can, yet they cannot find full time work.

Learn how to stop living in your own world and look at the situation around you, you might just see things for yourself. But then again, you'd have to remove the blinders from covering your own eyes to your ass.