When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'
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Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.
Everybody wants to help folks out. But we've got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.
I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemployment benefits.
If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It's not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you're working. You get help when you're not.
It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.
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