Originally posted by vraiblonde
What are they living on then? In order to get your unemployment check, you have to report regularly that you're trying to find a job. If they don't report, they don't get their check.
You sure do - AND you have to keep a journal of names and contacts. If you should be found to be lying, you can get your azz in jail.
Hey, I just went through all this. I know what it's like. And for a while I figured I had enough savings to tide me over. When my time was running out I got more urgent.
BUT
This doesn't matter. See, ANYONE could have said this about the unemployment figures --
"Oh they only 'look' good because they don't include all those (undocumentable) millions who have just 'given up'" ---
at ANY time. That 3.8% under Clinton - poppycock! They didn't include all those dot com bozos who gave up looking - it just LOOKS like a good number.
See what I mean? You can always say that, because no one can disprove it - or verify it. It's meaningless.
What matters is the shape of the graph - and the strength of the economy. Projections show a 4.4% growth this year. Did you see that manufacturing is WAY up so far? It's gonna be a banner year.
Democrats are gonna have to come up with something better than the economy and the war - the war will be seen as a plus, and the economy will be booming, come fall.