By: matt

matt — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:44:45 +0000

As we have all noticed there seems to be a problem with fuzzy math in Washington D.C. these days. Money given to districts in Arizona and Oklahoma that saved oe jobs, where those districts didn’t even exist. In S. Florida, it is bad. I lost my job in Feb. and haven’t been able to find anything, I have even applied to jobs all over the country. One problem with the unemployment figures is that no one talks about the amount of people that no longer get unemployment benefits. In the state of Florida, unemployment benefits come from a fund from a tax that all companies pay into. Thus a company has the legal right to refuse a former employee of getting those payments, aometimes allowing a person to fall into deep debt, lose their home, lose their car, basically becoming homeless, and it’s all legal. I fell into that problem, the company I worked for refused the payments, saying that it would not benefit the company to pay it. The only saving grace is my wife’s family is able to help with our bills ( wife out of work also ). Hopefully things we start to change for the better.

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By: matt