What’s your Soap Box?

iFlipIt was nice meeting you today.

AbiHHope ya find a job mate

AbiHMet a dude today that doesn’t work and just skis full time on unemployment. (And he’s not very good)


f’ing pisses me off. Out here working my butt off, and my taxes are going to abled bodied morons who have no intention on getting a job because they’re making more off of unemployment than they would be working.

The leaches of society eh

AbiHmorons who have no intention on getting a job because they’re making more off of unemployment than they would be working.

The leaches of society eh

r00kieWill always be semi truck drivers who take 4 miles to pass another truck, blocking both lanes. 'Professional driver' is a joke.

oldmanskiI can relate with you, sucks that people can get away with doing this but do you really blame the guy? If I could manage to make ends meet on unemployment and ski every day....... I would be all over it! Unfortunately it cant happen for myself.

My soap box is about people who litter and who dont use their turn signals. Why do some people not understand the simple concept of cleaning up after themselves?? The world will never know. Also, if you cant communicate while driving your car I am positive that your relationship with others sucks ass because you cant communicate. Off my soap box now.

DummyBearsUnfortunately they havent figured out if they raised minimum wage so working was no longer a waste of time people would actually work.

eheathThey'll get cut off eventually, at this point its just people who worked for companies that shut down, utah is close to normal unemployment numbers, tons of places are hiring... this guys is just hurting himself not finding a new job.

DummyBearsI would agree with that statement I guess I was referring to people that have been doing it for long periods of time I'm not sure what minimum is in utah but.

eheathmin wage is 7.25 in utah so yeah your statement is partially true, but I think people who are unemployed at this point just need to move on and get a new job.

eheathmin wage is 7.25 in utah so yeah your statement is partially true, but I think people who are unemployed at this point just need to move on and get a new job.

Young_patty$7.25?! Does the cost of living reflect that at all or is Utah legislation just that out of touch??

idk what the laws regarding it are everywhere but I know dudes who have been doing it in Minneapolis for over a year now with no intent on stopping, to be fair they lost their jobs when covid hit and then realized they could ball on unemployment and just skate all day.

Young_patty$7.25?! Does the cost of living reflect that at all or is Utah legislation just that out of touch??

idk what the laws regarding it are everywhere but I know dudes who have been doing it in Minneapolis for over a year now with no intent on stopping, to be fair they lost their jobs when covid hit and then realized they could ball on unemployment and just skate all day.

DrZoidbergYou think that's bad? I used to work at a pharmacy and I can't tell you how many times I had people put the smart key to their brand new mercedes or bmw on the counter while looking for their medicaid card. The hasidic jews were particularly good for this since the wife is an "unmarried mother of seven" according to the state, but between leaving off a few zeros on their income tax reporting, zero tax housing facilities because they're "educational centers" and whatever else they did, they're loaded. And like, I know people who could totally use the medicaid funding they're wasting.

So yeah, at least in NJ your tax money was financing their kids adderall and 100k/year "culturally sensitive" occupational therapy because they raise some fucked up kids but can't see a normal therapist.

skiP.E.I.Also what does the fact he's not very good at skiing have to do with anything?

oldmanskiMy soap box is about people who litter and who dont use their turn signals. Why do some people not understand the simple concept of cleaning up after themselves?? The world will never know. Also, if you cant communicate while driving your car I am positive that your relationship with others sucks ass because you cant communicate. Off my soap box now.

skiP.E.I.If you are making more unemployed than you could at a minimum wage job, that is an excellent argument for a living wage.

In the inevitably imperfect system, it's better to have a few slackers take it easy on unemployment than have people lose their job and everything else with it because there's no unemployment income available to them.

More of the taxes you pay are going towards blowing stuff up in other countries than to funding Employment insurance.

Doesn't everybody have EI premiums deducted from their paycheck rather than it being tax funded, or is that not how it works in the states?

Also what does the fact he's not very good at skiing have to do with anything?

CaseyIt’s run by the state so I imagine it’s a little different depending on where you live, but yeah in WA the premium just comes out of
your check. So I mean, to an extent you are just getting your own money back out of the pool but in order for the system to function you need the like 95 percent of working stiffs to never use it or it would bankrupt the program.

DummyBearsI believe 7.25 is that national minimum but its also fucking utah there's no major city like that of NYC, LA, Seattle, Boston etc. However I definitely believe that its way to low. Where I am in RI its 10.75 and is being raised to 12.25 this year I believe however we have a really high population density and are located in the NYC, Boston area.

eheathmin wage is 7.25 in utah so yeah your statement is partially true, but I think people who are unemployed at this point just need to move on and get a new job.

skiP.E.I.I think the way it works in most cases is the people who run the EI program have a team of investment professionals who invest the $ from the premiums, and they try to run the program just by paying out EI from the interest while growing the principle.

freestyler540Whats makes EI so powerful is that its on a federal level. Everyone contributes, but a piece of it is yours and the government returns it at tax time if you dont use it. Seasonal employees is a requirement. So I go on unemployment for 4 months. Its 1000$ every 2 weeks and its capped there. You can have a million dollar income and still only get 2 thousand a month.

I have an existentialist hatred towards trust fund babies. Never worked a day in their lives and they dont have any intention either while they leach off generations of hard work. Then they are floored and completly unable to comprehend why my generation cant own anything.

AbiHMet a dude today that doesn’t work and just skis full time on unemployment. (And he’s not very good)


f’ing pisses me off. Out here working my butt off, and my taxes are going to abled bodied morons who have no intention on getting a job because they’re making more off of unemployment than they would be working.

The leaches of society eh

Mtuhockey33if Covid is good for nothing else, it’s sure shown me that this country could easily solve our homeless, food, and healthcare problems in a second if they decided to spend a whole stimulus bill on the population, but we care more about foreign aid/military vehicles than our own people.

skiermanShut the fuck up, you stupid liberal cuck. Pull yourself up by the bootstraps and get a better job than just flipping burgers, you lazy trash hippy.

SammyDubzwhat I got out of this is we should all stop working and hop on unemployment