Hurricane Victims File for Unemployment

[southernleftylady]

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - Still smarting over the loss of their homes, Hurricane Charley's victims turned out by the hundreds in 90-degree heat Tuesday to cope with the storm's latest blow to their lives — the mass shutdown of businesses that has left them without jobs.
"Charley laid me off," said Rose Vito, a 57-year-old telemarketing assistant in red-plaid pajamas, lined up outside the Employ Florida mobile benefits station in Port Charlotte's Harold Avenue Recreational Center parking lot. "Without phones and computers, they can't function."

None of the choices on the unemployment form — suspension, temporary layoff, discharge/performance — seemed to fit her situation. So in the space that demanded a "reason for separation," she wrote: "Hurricane Charlie."

For thousands of Floridians, Tuesday was a day when services cut off by the rampage of Charley's 145-mph winds last week were being gradually — and sporadically — restored. Federal disaster assistance money began flowing, state officials cracked down on price gouging and postal workers handed out mail.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20040817/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_charley_22

[Bluebear]

1. Bush voter types will say "GET A JOB!"

Lazy, always on the dole, blah blah blah without even checking out the story.

[Lefty48197]

2. They oughta pull themselves up by their bootstraps

the lazy communists.