# Unemployment ends. Now what are you gonna do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620 "2010-12-02T03:12:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/1 "2010-12-02T03:12:54Z")
Me? I’m going to put bars on all my windows, double-lock the doors, load my guns, sharpen my pretty hunting knife, and do _everything_ online. Or maybe I’ll just move across the Mexican border where I’ll be safer. I never exaggerate. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/2 "2010-12-02T04:19:13Z")
Idonno. Go to work I guess. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/3 "2010-12-02T04:20:56Z")
I think he means unemployment INSURANCE. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/4 "2010-12-02T06:40:21Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > I think he means unemployment INSURANCE. 😃 Yes, but does he mean for himself, or for other people? It seems to be the latter. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/5 "2010-12-02T13:50:30Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Yes, but does he mean for himself, or for other people? It seems to be the latter. That’s correct. I’m set. I do mean unemployment insurance. We all just call it “unemployment”, as in “my unemployment is about to end. I better spend my last dollar on a crowbar.” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/6 "2010-12-02T14:56:52Z")
No worries – I’m not eligible for unemployment insurance in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/7 "2010-12-02T15:28:08Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > No worries – I’m not eligible for unemployment insurance in the first place. No, but you might want to worry about some desperado slikning over our once friendly border seeking sustenance for it’s starving family. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/8 "2010-12-02T15:36:41Z")
Still no worries – a Canadian Border Services Agency officer lives on the compound, and my office is beside a police headquarters. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/9 "2010-12-02T15:44:30Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > Me? I’m going to put bars on all my windows, double-lock the doors, load my guns, sharpen my pretty hunting knife, and do _everything_ online. Or maybe I’ll just move across the Mexican border where I’ll be safer. I’m already across the Mexican border where it’s safe, but my empty house is still in Michigan where it’s not safe! ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/10 "2010-12-02T19:14:17Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > I’m already across the Mexican border where it’s safe, but my empty house is still in Michigan where it’s not safe! I meant _just_ across the border. And I was rattling on about something I really know nothing about. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/11 "2010-12-02T19:32:16Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > I meant _just_ across the border. And I was rattling on about something I really know nothing about. No, you were being funny, and I was trying to, too. My empty house needs someone with guns and knives to protect it, while I’m living it up down here. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/12 "2010-12-03T06:46:59Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > That’s correct. I’m set. I do mean unemployment insurance. We all just call it “unemployment”, as in “my unemployment is about to end. I better spend my last dollar on a crowbar.” But it won’t end for everyone all at the same time. In fact, for some people it has already ended. Why haven’t you barred your windows yet?! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/13 "2010-12-03T09:47:32Z")
I live on the ground floor of a condo unit; the rules & regs won’t allow me to put bars on my windows so I’m gonna renew my CCW and buy a pump 12 gauge and just maybe a belt-fed, fully automatic 10 gauge, if I can find one. I’m serious about the 12 gauge; I might even buy two of them. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/14 "2010-12-04T16:26:13Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > idonno. Go to work i guess. lol! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/15 "2010-12-04T16:45:24Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Idonno. Go to work I guess. I’d forgotten about this, but **Tamex** just reminded me. I assume from your answer that you’re unemployed and have been receiving unemployment insurance payment. I don’t know anyone who is unemployed, so I’m wondering why you would remain jobless when all you have to do is go to work? I do know the checks are hardly enough to live on. I do know _of_ people around here who are unemployed, but they’re all looking for work. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/16 "2010-12-05T00:19:20Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > I’d forgotten about this, but **Tamex** just reminded me. > I assume from your answer that you’re unemployed and have been receiving unemployment insurance payment. I don’t know anyone who is unemployed, so I’m wondering why you would remain jobless when all you have to do is go to work? I do know the checks are hardly enough to live on. > I do know _of_ people around here who are unemployed, but they’re all looking for work. > Peace, > mangeorge Maybe he, uh, found a job? Thus ending his period of unemployment (and, subsequently, his unemployment insurance payments as well.) That’s how unemployment used to end before the Great Recession. I guess now we would eventually give up and call it “retirement”. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/17 "2010-12-05T01:13:40Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > Maybe he, uh, found a job? Thus ending his period of unemployment (and, subsequently, his unemployment insurance payments as well.) That’s how unemployment used to end before the Great Recession. I guess now we would eventually give up and call it “retirement”. Nah. I asked what you’re going to do if unemployment payment ends. He said “Idonno. Go to work I guess.” I think that means he’s drawing checks now, and if they stop, then he’ll have to go to work. I think he’s simply bullshitting though. 😉 A lot of people assume that those on unemployment are sitting at home watching tv and eating Godiva chocolates. I’d be jealous if that were true. I’d be eating Doritos and smoking dope. And watching soaps. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/18 "2010-12-05T22:58:49Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > I’d forgotten about this, but **Tamex** just reminded me. > I assume from your answer that you’re unemployed and have been receiving unemployment insurance payment. I don’t know anyone who is unemployed, so I’m wondering why you would remain jobless when all you have to do is go to work? I do know the checks are hardly enough to live on. > I do know _of_ people around here who are unemployed, but they’re all looking for work. > Peace, > mangeorge They are not enough to live on. If you have to pay for Cobra to keep up your health insurance, you will be broke in a hurry. It can take 3/4 of a check. It will not keep up with a mortgage. You slowly bleed to death financially. You will eat up savings, followed by cashing in the 401 . Then unemployment runs out . It is not pretty at all. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/19 "2010-12-05T23:32:25Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > They are not enough to live on. If you have to pay for Cobra to keep up your health insurance, you will be broke in a hurry. It can take 3/4 of a check. It will not keep up with a mortgage. You slowly bleed to death financially. You will eat up savings, followed by cashing in the 401 . Then unemployment runs out . It is not pretty at all. I know. The “get a job” people annoy the shit out of me. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620/20 "2010-12-06T00:34:23Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > I know. The “get a job” people annoy the shit out of me. What? why? They should just get a job. Head over to one of the countries we’ve sent the jobs too. I just don’t get it, why can’t poor people understand they need to go away to somewhere they can’t be seen. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unemployment-ends-now-what-are-you-gonna-do/562620.md?page=2)