You know, only someone who is a lazy SOB him/herself would think Unemployment is Funemployment. nt

[patrice]

[meegbear]

1. Funemployment ...

exactly the word to describe the mindset.

[SoCalDem]

7. republicans are great at coining buzz words & talking points

not so good at solutions

[rbrnmw]

15. It's the only they are good at

I take that back lying and obstructing they excel in that as well

[LiberalEsto]

8. Unemployed 21 months

No unemployment benefits

[meegbear]

10. I hope you make it ...

was unemployed for a year and a half in the early 90s and it was scary.

I wish the best for you and your family.

[LiberalEsto]

23. Thanks for your good wishes

Luckily my husband has a job, but they are working him half to death because they're too cheap to hire more people. This is called "increased productivity".

[patrice]

12. Do you have a community gardens where you are?

[LiberalEsto]

24. They do, but I have my own garden

My husband's still working, and things are tight, but I do a lot of work in the garden with all this free time.

[Dulcinea]

19. 16 months & counting here.

I have 20 years of experience in my field. But I'm female & over 40, so no one cares about that.

Take action for the unemployed: http://www.nelp.org/page/speakout/July4recess

[LiberalEsto]

25. I hear you!

It really sucks for older women (I'm 58). Part of the reason is that they think we'll use up too much of our health benefits. I was a newspaper reporter for more than 25 years, and a marketing writer for 7 more, but now I'm about as much in demand as a buggy whip inspector.
Thanks for the link and good luck!

[ck4829]

2. For most unemployed people, being out of work is a time of fear and humiliation

Maybe these "funemployment" and the Rand Paul "Just get a job" people say things like this so they can insulate themselves so they can think that things like having to deal with dread and shame on a daily basis don't happen in our country.

K&R

[patrice]

3. Some of us Love our work. Losing it is like losing a Loved One.

[Kookaburra]

4. Been unemployed for 4 months

It's no fun. Humiliation, frustration, self-doubt, etc. I'm experiencing all of it. On the rare occasion I DO get an interview, I'm so terrified I'm going to blow it that I end up sabotaging myself. I hate this. Funemployment, my ass. If only these ass hats could get a taste of what the rest of us go through every single day...but they won't.

[JoeyT]

26. Actually I'm more inclined to think they say things like that

because they're privileged dickbags.
They know there's zero chance of anything like this happening to them, so they're perfectly ok with demeaning the people it does happen to.

[Brewman_Jax]

5. Damned repugs

I've never met anyone that put the FUN in "funemployment". I hope there's a terrible place in hell for those that think being unemployed is some sort of "fun". :grr:

[EstimatedProphet]

6. I just came off a stint of 6 months unemployment

On the plus side, I didn't have to stress about going in to work every day.

On the negative side, I did have to stress about, oh, NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY THE BILLS. My wife was still at work, but we couldn't do it indefinitely, not on $400 a week. This is the basic issue that the stupids miss when they call it things like "funemployment" - NO ONE is going to stay home for $400 a week to not work, when they can make double that or far more from working! It doesn't go far enough to pay for even the basics! Do they actually think people are enjoying losing their housing and not having enough money to get by, just because they aren't going to work?! STUPID!

These very same people go on and on about how using money and the market is such a great way to determine the value of personal contribution, because people will always be motivated to try and better themselves economically. So how is it that we are now stricken with a country full of lazy people who are willfully passing up the greater reward they would get from working? Why doesn't the reward system work after all, Mr. Republican?

[rbrnmw]

16. I know of 1 suicide attempt

over losing his car and being foreclosed on due to long term unemployment, he was with the company 22 years, and by no means was he ever considered lazy. I am sure there are many many more

[unblock]

9. nonsense. energetic filthy rich bastards who don't need a paycheck also think it's funemployment

they can jet around the world and party hard for as long as they care to.
they can scour their network looking for business opportunities.
they can put many hours in on whatever they want to.
and, of course, they can make public statements railing against poorer people.


the real secret, of course, is that the filthy rich never consider themselves "unemployed" even when they have no job. that's because they always have investments they can claim to be monitoring, networks they can claim to be working, opportunities they can claim to be sifting through, etc.

[hobbit709]

11. The privileged class never gets the point until they're running for their lives.

[patrice]

13. Yep. Necessity is IN - DEED the mother of invention!

[Voltaire]

14. Oooh Lordy

lets make them run then!!

[patrice]

17. I'm beginning to think that IS the Necessity.

And I imagine there are all kinds of people who are thinking that to, "Let them reap what they have sown. Let them live by that which they claim should be a universal standard of behavior for others."

Hypocrisy is soooooooooooo obvious. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to recognize it and people are very tired of it.

[liskddksil]

18. The recent college grads I know, with no job prospects

use the term on themselves sardonically to mask their situation. I wouldn't be offended by it.

[Dulcinea]

20. The recent college grads I know....

...are joining the Peace Corps and/or teaching English overseas. Wish I could do that.

[patrice]

22. Not so recent . . . but this one is thinking about joining a "nunnery."

I'm not sure how serious I am about this, but I guess I will see, eventually.

[patrice]

21. Thanks for the info!

:hi: