Does anyone believe Obama's comments on Unemployment Benefits Today?

[Aldous9]

Originally Posted by michiganmoon

President Obama said:



Certainly we need Unemployment benefits - certainly many people exploit unemployment benefits.


Is this not a cheer leading speech by Obama, designed to be Patriotic so that it is harder to criticize and easier to get fired up by it?

Seriously, think about...according to Obama, there are millions of Americans and we do not have the vice of laziness or the thought of taking advantage of a system - none of us do - or so few that Obama has never met one. Get fired up, because Obama says Americans are super people!

Does anyone honestly think Obama has never met someone that would rather have an unemployment check than a job? I have met several. And if you really think that Obama is telling the truth here, would you then admit that he has led an extremely sheltered life that is outside of the real world?

I've never met anyone that would rather have unemployment benefits than a good paying job. There's no doubt that there are people out there that would rather have benefits than work a $7.25/hr job. I haven't met any but its common sense to assume that they are out there.

People who are on unemployment have paid in to the system. They pay in to the system so that if there comes a time where they need benefits they are there.

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Originally Posted by Aldous9

I've never met anyone that would rather have unemployment benefits than a good paying job. There's no doubt that there are people out there that would rather have benefits than work a $7.25/hr job. I haven't met any but its common sense to assume that they are out there.

People who are on unemployment have paid in to the system. They pay in to the system so that if there comes a time where they need benefits they are there.

"People who are on unemployment have paid in to the system"

I believe that unemployment payment goes to the STATES. A few years ago the states ran out of money and "borrowed" from the fed.

The money the workers paid in was TOTALLY used up hence, the fed LOANED them the money.

NC stopped ALL employment payments 1 or 2 years ago after they had run up a 2

"State officials adopted the package of benefit cuts and increased taxes for businesses in February, a plan designed to accelerate repayment of a $2.5 billion federal debt. Like many states, North Carolina had racked up the debt by borrowing from Washington after its unemployment fund was drained by jobless benefits during the Great Recession.

North Carolina Dropped From Federal Unemployment Program