Unemployment Benefits Causing Unemployment

[heironymouspasparagus]

This whole "I too, offered him a job he turned down" is at least a little bit suspect.

From past posts, I would expect that you would do the moral thing and report him for unemployment fraud.  A felony.  Instead, the implication is that there is complicity in letting this criminal get away with that fraud, by NOT reporting it.

Yes, I realize that for some period of time a person is not required to accept a job at less than there normal career level.  That goes away after a while and continued unemployment is based on not getting any job, whether at the previous rate or not.  I submit that person is well into that other time.

So, do the moral thing and report the criminal.

[Gaspar]

This whole "I too, offered him a job he turned down" is at least a little bit suspect.

From past posts, I would expect that you would do the moral thing and report him for unemployment fraud.  A felony.  Instead, the implication is that there is complicity in letting this criminal get away with that fraud, by NOT reporting it.

I do not police my neighbors any more than you police your pot smoking/dealing friends.  Don't play the mock-outrage card with me.

He is making life hard enough for his wife and children.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Selective morality hard at work...or on unemployment.

Actually, just because I advocate legalization of grass doesn't mean I smoke it.  Even if I disagree with the law, I obey.  Goes to the old "render unto Caesar" thing...

I will rabidly rant and rave to end the insanity of our failed drug laws.  Not only are so many of them an unwarranted intrusion into personal liberty by a radical reactionary "state" - meaning the Fed's in case anyone is in doubt - it is also a massively failed public policy.

Let's bring some common sense to the situation.  If it grows naturally and is consumed chemically unrefined, then it becomes legal.  It there is any refinement process applied, then possession becomes a mandatory 10 year prison term without parole.  Sale and manufacture becomes a mandatory life prison term without parole.

We can continue to exempt cigarettes and alcohol from those terms if you like, since so many are already heavily addicted to those.  That is a basic "lost cause" situation.