Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Mow some lawns, babysit some kids, borrow some money. Use your resources.

If you have no resources, you are the only person you can blame for that.

So the fact that most people have cut those expenditures out of their budgets is the job-seekers' fault as well?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

So the fact that most people have cut those expenditures out of their budgets is the job-seekers' fault as well?

Most people? Nah. There'll always be jobs for folks providing daycare, lawn mowing, house cleaning, etc.

If you need money, there's a way to get it.

I'm a believer in the ability of properly motivated people to find money. A good criminal lawyer can quote an unemployed person a $15,000 attorney's fee for a serious felony and somehow they can get the money.

A cross-country UHaul costs a few hundred bucks. If you can't put together that kind of money, you clearly aren't trying hard enough.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Most people? Nah. There'll always be jobs for folks providing daycare, lawn mowing, house cleaning, etc.

If you need money, there's a way to get it.

I'm a believer in the ability of properly motivated people to find money. A good criminal lawyer can quote an unemployed person a $15,000 attorney's fee for a serious felony and somehow they can get the money.

A cross-country UHaul costs a few hundred bucks. If you can't put together that kind of money, you clearly aren't trying hard enough.

I really hope you're never in the position I was once in (trying to figure out where your next meal was going to come from).

When you have to pick-and-choose how you're going to eat, UHaul is pretty far down on your list of priorities.

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I really hope you're never in the position I was once in (trying to figure out where your next meal was going to come from).

He is setting himself up for it. That's the really sad part


I'm flabbergasted at how someone could actually say that a person should move to another STATE in order to find a job. Especially when you are talking to someone who doesn't have the money to move BECAUSE they aren't working.


This isn't necessarily just silver spoon syndrome. I've had a privileged life, but even I have enough common sense to recognize that this kind of thing isn't always the unemployed person's fault. If someone has only been able to go on 2 interviews after sending their resume to several places, exactly how is that their fault? You can't FORCE someone to interview you.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Mow some lawns, babysit some kids, borrow some money. Use your resources.

If you have no resources, you are the only person you can blame for that.

Yes because families pay babysitters SO much. And, HELLO, this is Michigan. No lawns to mow right now. And borrow money? FROM?

Kevin, you just don't get it. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and you will never get it. It's really sad because I was once in your shoes... wealthy family, somewhere to work after graduation. It really sucks when all that comes crashing down.

[VandalSquirrel]

On a whim I applied for a job that I was quite qualified for last November, with excellent references and experience. I thought I would have an interview and received a rejection letter three months later. I applied for another similar job today and someone I know said I was one of almost 90 applicants. It is for a bit less money than I make now, but has better benefits and hours, so the money situation wouldn't be a hardship. it is in my field, and not a promotion, just a different area of work in the same career.

I have the experience, references, and qualifications, but so do a lot of other people. What I have been seeing is that older workers are coming back to work and since they've been out of the work force they will work less salary wise, and since they own homes here or have family they are a better hire than a single younger woman like me. Why hire me because OMFG I'll get married, have babies and leave. I realize it is hard for people who need health care for their self or a family member, their retirement took a huge hit, or whatever is going on; but they could leave just as easily to move in with their kids and be near their grand kids before I'd ever give birth, let alone get married. Kind of putting a huge kink in saving money for graduate school as I can't move up without the minimum of a Masters because everyone at my level who has worked longer is getting the higher positions that rarely open up.

Oh snap, I should get pregnant, go on welfare (prenantal care covered!), and then sell my baby to a couple and breast milk as dairy products for some extra change. I could probably even make more on the side with people who have a thing for pregnant ladies with some art photography. I better get fertile, fast.