I've got an idea for you Iceberg.
Your definition of earned seems to not be even a little bit in line with what the term earned actually means. So next time you get your paycheck take 25% of the hours you worked for that period of time and volunteer around the office/wherever it is you work. Not doing your job, just other stuff around like cleaning offices/bathrooms. Think of it as the deductible on the 40 hours you spent doing your job already.
If you use any system that is paid for by tax dollars you need to track it and be sure to volunteer in proportion to it. Now you already volunteer but unfortunately lots of people use these already paid for systems so the places you want to volunteer don't need/can't manage anymore help so you get to do something you don't want to do, like cleaning rest stop bathrooms. You did pay taxes for these benefits but the volunteer work is a deductible. If you don't do it you can't use taxed services and man will it suck if you need 911. I mean the amount of tax dollars used to pay for squad cars, police salaries, fire trucks, its gonna be a whole lot of volunteer time to cover what was already covered by your taxes. If its a house fire you get double dinged since insurance isn't really earned by paying into it either so you gotta volunteer for your insurance pay outs in addition to the fire fighter payout.
Basically your argument was that since the government pays the unemployed there should be a benefit, when it was shown that UI is actually earned you still insisted that earned or not people should be forced to do even more.
I'd have no problem with the UI office suggesting places folks could volunteer and hooking them up. I'd even maybe support a system that gave you a slightly better UI payout if you volunteered 20 hours a week. But baseline UI benefits have been earned already when you make that claim.
Your definition of earned seems to not be even a little bit in line with what the term earned actually means. So next time you get your paycheck take 25% of the hours you worked for that period of time and volunteer around the office/wherever it is you work. Not doing your job, just other stuff around like cleaning offices/bathrooms. Think of it as the deductible on the 40 hours you spent doing your job already.
If you use any system that is paid for by tax dollars you need to track it and be sure to volunteer in proportion to it. Now you already volunteer but unfortunately lots of people use these already paid for systems so the places you want to volunteer don't need/can't manage anymore help so you get to do something you don't want to do, like cleaning rest stop bathrooms. You did pay taxes for these benefits but the volunteer work is a deductible. If you don't do it you can't use taxed services and man will it suck if you need 911. I mean the amount of tax dollars used to pay for squad cars, police salaries, fire trucks, its gonna be a whole lot of volunteer time to cover what was already covered by your taxes. If its a house fire you get double dinged since insurance isn't really earned by paying into it either so you gotta volunteer for your insurance pay outs in addition to the fire fighter payout.
Basically your argument was that since the government pays the unemployed there should be a benefit, when it was shown that UI is actually earned you still insisted that earned or not people should be forced to do even more.
I'd have no problem with the UI office suggesting places folks could volunteer and hooking them up. I'd even maybe support a system that gave you a slightly better UI payout if you volunteered 20 hours a week. But baseline UI benefits have been earned already when you make that claim.
