Comments on: Unintended consequences

By: siliconchef

siliconchef — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:22:41 +0000

The libertarian angle is how they fund unemployment in Germany. Aside from the one year of benefits (which is pretty generous), it boils down to taxing other people so somebody doesn’t have to get a job. At a certain it stops being unemployment and becomes welfare.

She had a year of being out of work to examine the job market & decide if she needed to learn new skills or move to get a job. After that, do other taxpayers & workers need to keep paying her tab?

In the US, unemployment is something that working folk pay into and formerly working folk get to draw from for a limited time. After a certain point you get cutoff, because unemployment doesn’t replace the working wage.

By: Corey

Corey — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:07:37 +0000

I finally bothered reading the artical. one thing it says in it is that they can only lose their benifits for refusing a job after collecting unemployment for one year. have fun getting your benifits to last a full year around here regardless of whether you refuse a job or not.

By: siliconchef

siliconchef — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 02:30:25 +0000

Well, if she’s a virgin then she can claim she’s not qualified for the job …

By: John Wilson

John Wilson — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:30:15 +0000

The German system must only go by whether or not a person has the right qualifications for the job. “Hmmm… she izt breathing, and she has Das Kooch, yet she says ‘nein’… Achtung! Nein benefitzen!”

By: Corey

Corey — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:15:01 +0000

hmm, I’m staying away from the prostitution debate thing. however I will say your a bit off on the unemployment benifits thing, at least here in MN. first refusing a job you didn’t apply for would have no effect on your benifits. second you are allowed to refuse a job even if you applied for it in a number of circumstances, ranging from the amount they pay compared to your previous earnings to the type of work not using your skills.