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Default A thought on unemployment benefits

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On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:24:02 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

How about you get no more than 3 months of unemployment period.

since there are 5 applicants for every job, how is this going to help


My wife just got cold called to go sell road signs for $70,000 a year
plus expenses and benefits so some people can still find work.


Sure she did. And I just got a cold call offering me a great
opportunity to sell phone booth services to local merchants.
Get a cut out of every call too.
Worth maybe $150k a year he said, if I hustle and I pick the right areas
with heavy pay phone traffic.
Like her I turned the offer down.
You know what they call job offers from cold callers?
Bull****.
Oh wait. You mean the cold caller found work. I get it now.

Jim - Be wary of Greeks bearing gifts.