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Bzzt. Try again.
Start with Johnny’s post.
Dunno bout that. You defend your disability by stating that you’ve worked and paid taxes for 30+ years, and you’re loathe to define what makes it okay for a person to accept welfare preferring to make it sound as if they are all layabout cheats who do nothing but sponge. Why don’t you clarify then and tell us exactly what, where, why, and when it’s okay for a person to take government assistance. I mean, we all know it’s okay for you to take it. What similarities to you does a person need?
Well that’s good to know. Not that I’m wrong of course. Happens so often that I’m rather neutral about it (If I die, tell my wife I said…hello). I’m simply pleased to know that people like me have the power to raise taxes like that. Best be nice to me woman, else I’ll raise your taxes higher and give the money to unemployed illegal immigrants. MUHUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Actually I’d raise taxes but use the money to fund the military. That oughta make Limbaugh and Hannity’s heads asplode.
I’ll admit that I was wrong about the finances, but everything else seems to be spot on. You’ve admitted the non cooking and right below you back up the living comfortably.
There it is. Now I seem to remember that you stopped working because the amount you would have made would have been less than the family paid in taxes. Stands to reason that your husband would be making more than you in that case otherwise he would’ve stopped working. Feel free to correct if I’m wrong. As I said. Happens all the time.
Course I have a point. Shaved my head so I could show it off. And I’m not seeing much wrong here. Is it not your belief that those are on welfare are undeserving of the assistance while your being on disability is perfectly kosher. Once again I feel you need to clarify what makes it okay for a person to collect government assistance.
You really shouldn’t hold your breath. You’re already disabled enough. And in case you’re curious, my cite was Carol Streams post. The one that I quoted where she said I was being unneccesarily mean. I was implying that Carol is not really in a position to be calling anyone else mean.
What’s confusing about it? Everyone just checks “I Agree” just to move forward in whatever website we’re talking about. Nobody reads the legalese.
And I think it’s a good idea that these companies are taking applications only on the web, it helps weed out those that are unlikely to be employable.
I work for a Fortune 500, and everything is on the web. Do you want to look for an internal job opportunity? File a claim on your medical insurance? Sign up for the medical plan of your choice to begin with? Heck, change your address in the company’s records? All online, no other choice.
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How so? I know perfectly employable and employed people who don’t have computers/internet and I know some astoundingly lazy bastards who have internet access. Heck. This message board alone is populated entirely with assholes (myself included of course), and from what I’ve seen the rest of the net isn’t much better.
And now that I think about it, is there anyone unlikely to be employable to wal-mart?
Why do you think libraries HAVE computers in the first place? To sit there and look pretty?
MY library even has a computer lab!
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(And Broomstick, ditto on Carnegie. I don’t know WHAT I’d do without my local Carnegie library system. I don’t think I’d even have gotten through college without being able to access the documents they had at the main branch!)
Harborwolf – don’t you just love it? Carol’s constantly saying, “oh, those lazy bums – get a job!” Then she goes on about “weeding out the unemployable.” :rolleyes:
If one can’t fill out the job application without assistance, from the librarian, from mommy and daddy, from whomvever, then they more than likely can’t do the job, either.
I was simply wondering how internet access or the lack of serves to weed out anything.
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Do you think before you post?
Well, you want the unemployed to stay unemployed. Otherwise, someone as sad and low and pathetic as Carol Stream wouldn’t have anyone to feel superior to.
Don’t force her to offshore her superiority and smugness. Next thing you know, she’ll be gloating about the fate of someone in India. We can’t allow that. Support America! Keep American gloating for Americans!
Here’s hoping you don’t work with the public. God, you’re a twat.
C’mon, Carol, everybody has to start somewhere. The first time I hit an online job application was in 2002 - I was 45 years old and I’d been a COBOL programmer for almost 10 years. You want to know how well I did? I fucked it up, completely. And the next few too, until I figured out how to do it right.
There’s a learning curve. Even back in the day when I found jobs in retail by pounding the pavement, there was a learning curve. Wear a tie, have a pen, bring a note of the names, addresses, and phone of my references and so on.
Also, nobody - nobody - steps into a job and requires no training. Even an experienced worker in the field they know still has to learn their employer’s policies and conventions.
If they can’t figure out how to apply at Wal-Mart, how do they remember to breath? Should there be a government program for that?
Grow up, Dude.
So the incompetent unemployable straw-youth you have constructed here, who is not entitled to any help at the public expense and is unable to hold even the most menial of jobs – what do you advocate happen to him? Left with the choices of turning to crime or lying down and dying of starvation and/or exposure?
You’ve set up the problem here – he’s incompetent to work, and not worthy of public assistance of any form. I trust you won’t object to my postulating that your young strawman has normal human needs – hunger, thirst, warmth during cold weather, a safe place to sleep…
Having created the problem, solve it.
There is no English verb “to breath”. This is not a nitpick – when someone undertakes to criticize another’s competence in the way you have, he or she exposes him/herself to the same sort of criticism. You are clearly too stupid to know the difference between the noun “breath” and the verb “to breathe.” So your ignorance needs to be corrected. No thanks is necessary for this lesson.
Oh, I’m sure that any investments she has are already in an offshore tax shelter, where they will not contribute to American investment income. Just as she supports the outsourcing of jobs that could be held by Americans to countries where the companies can get labor cheaper – forgetting that the unemployed will not be able to afford their products or services.
Carol, . . . [sigh] Y’know, I kind of like you - don’t know why, but for some reason I have a soft spot for you - but this is just ludicrous. People have to learn.
Someone with no experience online, or even with computers at all is not going to be able to figure it out on their own, and helping them is what librarians and mommy and daddy are for. Even someone who is smart is going to have trouble the first time they hit an online application.
They can do it the way I did, by fucking up at Peoples Drug (didn’t wear a tie), Mammoth Mart (didn’t have my references written down), 7-11 (stoned out of my mind; of course, to accept a job at 7-11, I needed to be stoned out of my mind), or they can learn from advice. I think the latter is far preferable, and I don’t understand why you think people should spring from the brow of Zeus knowing how to apply for a job.
How did you learn how to apply for a job?