Did anyone else notice that the Fox and Friends cast looks...younger...prettier...better than before?

As someone who works 30+ hours a week, and still makes considerably less than my friend that has been unemployed and uninterested in looking for almost 18 months now it's hard to feel bad. Also, the only time I applied for unemployment they gave me the run-around for several months to the point where I had found other employment before they were willing to help me in any way.
Meh.

Unemployment benefits are based on your previous job salary. So if your friend is making more than you, it means he made way more than you at his last job.

And what run around did you get? I got unemployment once. I was able to do it online without ever going to an office. Obviously it was easy enough for your "friend". Are you saying that unemployment is easy for people to get and then in the same sentence saying that it's hard?

Reminder: unemployment is insurance that your employer has to buy and so basically you buy it. It is not a government hand-out. It was paid for. Like car insurance. You earned it.

>> ^zor:

Reminder: unemployment is insurance that your employer has to buy and so basically you buy it. It is not a government hand-out. It was paid for. Like car insurance. You earned it.


Incorrect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits#United_States

Unless by "it was paid for", you mean it was already factored into your general taxes...

>> ^zor:

Reminder: unemployment is insurance that your employer has to buy and so basically you buy it. It is not a government hand-out. It was paid for. Like car insurance. You earned it.


So in other words, money that otherwise would have been given to someone in exchange for aiding production is instead being given to people who aren't producing but would like to. Seems rather ass-backwards. What ever happened to saving money and having a what-if-i-lost-my-job fund?