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  1. Governor Liar spouting more crap on the Psycho show. Never believe this clown. Never!
  2. Is this guy too scared to grant interviews to legitimate media outlets? Wisconsin deserves more than softball questions from card-carrying Republican Charlie Sykes.
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  3. Sounds like common sense principles to anyone with work ethic
  4. OMG!! If Scott Walker isn't out of town every day begging DEFENSE FUND DONATIONS he is on the Sykes show Maybe he should spend more time actually working on creating his "PROMISED" 250000 new private sector jobs and 10 thousand new businesses and less time reporting to his puppet handlers.Every day of the week either Paul Ryan Ron Johnson or Scott Walker is on AM TALK RADIO defending something stupid the just said or did.
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  5. When you're looking, you send out as much paper as you can. Once you've covered all openings in your area, and nothing new opens up, this new ruling makes life very difficult. You cannot reasonably apply for a position more than once a month - or less - and still retain your dignity. The company offering that position begins to laugh at you. If no new positions come on the listings, what then????
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  6. Since when is not getting free stuff from someone else a "punishment"?
  7. This requirement is completely idiotic for the obvious reason: people who don't want jobs like Scooter claims will simply now apply for twice as many jobs they don't want and people that do will now apply for jobs that they are not interested in or qualified for. So now you are generating twice as much paperwork for businesses, which costs more them more time and money. This benefits NO ONE.
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    • so based on your argument, dont require unemployed people to do anything, just hand over money to them. got it, thanks for the valuable insight
    • You are correct. Unemployed persons will simply file two types of applications. The first are complete, accurage applications for the jobs they really do want and are interested in. The other will be incomplete, frivolous applications for jobs they have no interest in. These will no doubt be at places like McDonald's, Burger King, Culver's, etc. The applicants will simply leave out piece of information in places like names of former supervisors, phone numbers, etc, or they will use fictious names like Donald Duct and Mickey Mouse for former supervisors. They will technically be in compliance with Scooter's new rules, but they will be wasting the time of the manager at the fast food restaraunt who's reviewing the applications.. Mano's right, this benefits no one. But Scooter prove day in and day out he does not care about the workng poor and working classof Wiscosin. Why should he? While some of them may vote for him, they are not giving money to his campaign fund. College drop out Scooter's donors are the likes of Dian "I proudly do not pay Wisconsn Income Tax depsite makeing over a billon dollare a year" Hendrick and the infamous Koch brothers.
    • If you don't actually want a job and are collecting unemployment, this benefits the rest of the citizens of our state if you are too lazy to make a concerted effort to get work. Plus, if you think getting a job at McDonald's or Burger King is beneath you, take a look in the mirror and realize that sitting at home unemployed is far more demeaning than having a job you don't like.
    • Mano, Walker's goal is not to employ but to "PUNISH" those terrible takers whose withholding over the years more than paid for their temporary UC bridge to survival. Besides , the trust fund feeders preying on the unemployed on this board love to see Walker pounding the blameles victims of his consumer demand reducing policy of impoverishing public employees,
  8. I've never been elgible or collected unemployment.It would be good to hear from those that are currently elgible. Many of my friends work long hours and 7 days a week on seasonal jobs and are layed off in the winter.Their family count on the time together and their employers look forward to getting the same experienced crews back after winter. They are not machines and the time off system seems to help both them,their family and employer.
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    • That is all fine and good that they treasure their time off, but at the same time, it is not up to the others in this state to pay for them sitting around with their families. The reason for unemployment is for a bridge when you are looking for a job, not to get paid during an extended vacation.
    • But as podman stated, the seasonal employers still need their employees in the spring.
      Is it your wish that each and every seasonal employer in this state start fresh each year with training for new employees?
      This state has a LOT of seasonal employers.
      These employers whose workers are laid off each winter pay quite a bit higher unemployment taxes than the average employer - so *they* (the employers) "pay for them sitting around with their families" (as you put it) by their higher unemployment tax rate, and they benefit by doing so in that they get their trained/skilled employees back in the spring.
    • Crew; I disagree. As I stated never collected unemployment, so I guess I'm one of the others you refer to and I don't have a problem paying them knowing their double shifts and 7 day work weeks give us all paved roads,bridges and a means of transportation for the state. I doubt that you work at a job that is as physically demanding so probably will not understand .
  9. 4 times a week?

    Oh the humanity!

    How dare he ask the unemployed to actually look for work.
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