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| [Ben]: | Your priorities are wrong | Discuss This [1 comment so far] View Comments | Unemployment benefits do not guarantee you the ability to have all the luxuries to which you have grown accustomed.
The ranks of the unemployed include Jerome Boyd, 48, a father of four who lives in Arlington. He was laid off in August from his job as a sous chef at Gaylord National Hotel at National Harbor.
He receives $1,200 a month in unemployment benefits, less than half the $3,000 a month he brought home from his job. Now he is often behind paying about $1,500 in rent, a car payment and other expenses. "I'm stealing from Peter to pay Paul," he said, adding: "There's [b]the cable, the phone bill[/b]. I owe the bank overdraft fees and the insurance is lapsing a little bit. I can't take my kids shopping for school clothes because I don't have enough to do that." |
If you are on unemployment and are falling behind on debt payments, [b]you cannot afford [i]cable[/i][/b] and you should probably take a good hard look at what kind of phone plan you're supporting.
And people on food stamps shouldn't be buying iPhones, right Nate?
The checks may be meager, but Boyd does not know what he would do without them. "I depend on this money," he said. "I'm wondering every other week if it is going to keep coming in or not. It's stressful, and especially when you're trying to look for a job, too."
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"I can't take something that's minimum wage because I just won't be able to pay my bills," he said. "I'd have to work three jobs to pay the bills, and that doesn't make sense." |
Addiction to unemployment is keeping him from taking jobs. He's happy with the little checks he gets because he isn't working, so why should he bother to work for a little check?
Entitlement sucks. |
| 2010-03-10
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| [Ben]: | Stupid Vandals | Discuss This [2 comments so far] View Comments | When we got trash cans last year, I ran a length of paracord between the lid and the can itself so the lids wouldn't go missing.
Today I came home and as I was bringing them in, I noticed that someone had cut the paracord off of both cans at each of the knots.
Punks. |
| 2010-03-04
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| 2010-02-24
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| 2010-02-19
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| 2010-02-18
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| [Ben]: | Some thoughts for today | Discuss This [0 comments so far] View Comments | One hundred and thirty pounds of .451 bullets placed strategically in the trunk of a Ford Mustang makes a world of difference when it comes to traction in snow. Those are staying in there until July.
Paying off said Mustang a couple of years early feels good. I'm going to have to double down on the Exploder now.
Heard while talking to Uncle Sam about my taxes: "Yeah, the watch too. Hurry up, man, I haven't got all day. Any change in your pockets? Don't make me pop a cap in you, dude, just hand it aaaaaall over."
Have you ever gotten a naval orange with a naval so large and well developed that it was more like an orange inside another orange with a naval of its own? Or is that just me? |
| 2010-02-11
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