Reply #7: I just spoke to a friend of mine today who has been on unemployment for a year.

[Walk away]

She is desperate and about to lose her home. The bank has been holding off for almost a year and taking partial payments but without a job they won't hold out any longer. Unemployment doesn't come close to paying a mortgage around here and the job market sucks. It doesn't matter how smart or talented you are, if you are fifty or over there in no job for you.

She has being interviewing and retraining herself for twelve months. I have to admire her for being so committed to it when she gets shot down constantly.

So fuck every republican. I hope it happens to them...I hope they lose their businesses and jobs and houses and learn what empathy is.