Teabaggers, your unemployment check is a socialist document.

[Union Yes]

Socialism is feeding you and keeping a roof over your head.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

1. and so is your social security check, and your medicare, and disability check

and your roads, schools, police, on and on

[onehandle]

2. The Internet is Socialism. It's the great leveler of information. Unless Comcast gets its way. nt

[jody]

3. If the check is from "unemployment insurance" then it's not welfare but a payment to a person who

suffered an event exactly analogous to any other event covered by other insurance policies, e.g. home, car, life.

It was created in 1935 and funded with contributions from employees and employers to provide partial support if employees lose their jobs.

[DesertFlower]

7. i don't think employees pay into

unemployment insurance.

[jody]

8. I believe three states require minimal employee contributions. Agree that employers pay most of the

cost of unemployment insurance directly.

One could argue that employer contributions are indirectly shared with employees since employer payments could otherwise be used to increase employee wages.

[DesertFlower]

9. my sister lives in vermont. they

own a small business. a few months ago she testified in front of the state senate about the how much the business pays into it. she thinks the employees should pay. i understand her reasoning as a small business, but can you imagine IBM, american express, insurance companies, etc. getting away with not having to pay for it.

[jody]

10. One point, as long as employers pay for the program, they will resist workers receiving benefits

arguing its their money that pays for benefits, i.e. pure welfare rather that a joint program such as social security where employee and employer each contribute 6.2%.

[DesertFlower]

11. take for example someone making

$24,000 a year -- not a big salary. 6.2% would cost the employee $124 a month. i think that's a bit much for something you might never get back. at least with social security and medicare deductions, you know you're going to benefit.

[jody]

13. I agree with you. I just pointed out that employers view unemployment benefits as something they

alone pay for. :shrug:

[Birthmark]

4. Ah, but it's all part of the plan, you see.

Taking a government check is a guerrilla tactic they are using against "the enemey" to...um, excuse their hypocrisy. :rofl:

[peace frog]

5. The teabagger credo:

KEEP YER GUBMINT HANDS OFF MY FEDERAL DOLE. :crazy:

[dynasaw]

6. So are. . . .

the highways you travel, the police force who come to your rescue when criminals get at you, and the sewers into which your shit gets flushed.

If you don't like socialism, get off the roads, don't whine if your house burns down and no firefighters come to extinguish the flames, and I hope you find ways to dispose of your wastes. :P

[Little Star]

12. Good point! k&r