Long-term jobless see reduction in benefits

Source: USA Today

In late March, Michigan became the first state to reduce the basic 26 weeks of state-paid unemployment benefits to 20 weeks for workers who become unemployed starting next year.
Missouri, while resuming the extended benefits, followed Michigan's lead and cut back the initial state-paid benefits to 20 weeks for the newly unemployed, starting immediately.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-05-17-unemployment-economy-benefits_n.htm

Grrrrrrrrr.

:grr:

How else are we going to keep Paris Hilton in gold weave thongs?

for whom the bell tolls! It tolls for thee!

We are all in this together, or we continue to play the fleeting and ephemeral game of oneupmanship where I win, win win, you lose, lose, lose. Oh, maybe I win somewhat and you lose somewhat, but all the better, that is what keeps this humongous and difficult to comprehend game of exploiting bullshit going for as long as it will be allowed to by all who participate it in one way or another.

You see, it is coming to the point where the dividing line will become much clearer. You are either on the owner/rich side, or you are the Serf/Underclass. The Middle-class are helping to support and continue the facade and will soon find it hard, (due to their dissolution here in the US) to justify their participation in a world that is leaving them behind, as it has the Underclass for so very long. You are not being blamed, but you could, at the very least, understand that your place between the rich and the poor in you world of value as abstraction, is soon to be decimated because it is only going to be about owners and slaves or Lords an Serfs from here on in. You might want to think about reinvesting whatever power and finances you have left to bet on one side or the other. The poor might come to value you, but the wealthy are already declaring you as a form of toast with degrees. You can't save yourself by reliquishing your knowledge and intelligence to a system that does not respect you and only pays lip service to the value of knowledge and truth as it fades in today's superficial facade that passes itself off as a society or culture. In fact, it is not even a tribe, not could it compare itself to one with any crudely.

Stand up. Rise up. Use what you have where you are, while you can. These are the times that require us to be what we are as a species: adaptable. With the courage of knowing where you are, and why, that will be much easier than it sounds. Otherwise, you have a few things in your way to figure out yet.

:hi:

but I know what you mean.

No man is an island. One of my very favorite poems.

We all are one, but alas, people who see monetary benefit in division continue to pit us against one another.

At the end of the day, we all die. And on that bed of reflection, the ones who had nothing will say, "I tried", while those who have it all, will say, "I don't have enough".

In the end, we all die poor.

:-(