Is there any government benefits (as in money) available for a 56 year old single white male with no dependents who can't find a job? I've been burning thru my savings the last year and in a few months I will be in real trouble.

I guess short of turning my skin black or becoming an illegal alien, I got no hope?

Why can't you find a job?

Don't know. I have applied for several. I think I might be experiencing age discrimination although we all know that never occurs.

I worked in the insurance industry for 25 years but would like something different. That has become a micro managed hell.

Yes, you go file for unemployment while you are looking for a new job. You paid into unemployment a tax when you were working. It's your money. Everybody out of job, regardless of being rich or poor files when looking for work.

I was told I cannot collect unemployment because I left my last job voluntarily 3 years ago to start my own business which hasn't been much of a success.

have a 4 door car? get an uber account to be a taxi driver

look on craigslist or post ads offering to do various odd jobs

work for family members?


I've been down and out a few times in life. Although most snobs in this area can't comprehend, it IS possible to go semi-off-the grid for a while, buy a cheap old minivan or truck, park at Walmart and sleep in the car, yes it is legal and they DO allow it. Then get a cheap gym membership and shower/work out change once a day. Yes this is possible, it is not ideal. But neither is bankruptcy or eviction.

I can't remember the guys name but I used to read this very interesting blog where a guy explained how to live without working. If nothing else it is an interesting read.

Good luck.

Why not work part time at a burger joint while you are searching? At least you'd have some money coming in.

There are lots of jobs out there. Maybe they aren't what you'd love to do. Maybe you feel you're overqualified.

The job market is like the housing market. Your worth is only what someone will pay.

YJ7CT Wrote:
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> You paid into unemployment
> a tax when you were working. It's your money.

Not in Virginia. Here it is only us employers who pay unemployment taxes, to both the state and to the Feds.

I'm not sure how it works now. Do they still

was going to say reduce your benefits dollar for dollar if you get part time employment?

It seems like what you all are telling this person is unless you're black or an illegal, YOUR government OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE and FOR THE PEOPLE will do nothing to help you?

As you probably know, the classical version of the Ant and the Grasshopper story goes like this:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

Updated Ant and Grasshopper fable:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Then a representative of the NAAGB (The National Association for the Advancement of Green Bugs) shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with "green bias", and makes the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings "It's Not Easy Being Green." Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Reagan summers, or as Bill refers to it, the "Temperatures of the 80's." Richard Gephardt exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share". Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-greenism Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare moms who can only hear cases on Thursday afternoon between 1:30 and 3:00 PM when there are no talk shows scheduled.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he's in -- which just happens to be the ant's old house -- crumbles around him since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on the TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing before a wildly applauding group of Democrats announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned in America.

ksdhweffgy Wrote:
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> As you probably know, the classical version of the
> Ant and the Grasshopper story goes like this:
>
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all
> summer long, building his house and laying up
> supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks
> he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the
> summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and
> well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter
> so he dies out in the cold.
>
> Updated Ant and Grasshopper fable:
>
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all
> summer long, building his house and laying up
> supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks
> he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the
> summer away. Come winter, the shivering
> grasshopper calls a press conference and demands
> to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm
> and well fed while others are cold and starving.
> CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of
> the shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant
> in his comfortable home with a table filled with
> food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
> How can it be that, in a country of such wealth,
> this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
>
> Then a representative of the NAAGB (The National
> Association for the Advancement of Green Bugs)
> shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with
> "green bias", and makes the case that the
> grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of
> greenism. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with
> the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings
> "It's Not Easy Being Green." Bill and Hillary
> Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS
> Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that
> they will do everything they can for the
> grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he
> deserves by those who benefited unfairly during
> the Reagan summers, or as Bill refers to it, the
> "Temperatures of the 80's." Richard Gephardt
> exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that
> the ant has gotten rich off the back of the
> grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike
> on the ant to make him pay his "fair share".
> Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and
> Anti-greenism Act," retroactive to the beginning
> of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to
> hire a proportionate number of green bugs and,
> having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,
> his home is confiscated by the government.
> Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the
> grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant,
> and the case is tried before a panel of federal
> judges that Bill appointed from a list of
> single-parent welfare moms who can only hear cases
> on Thursday afternoon between 1:30 and 3:00 PM
> when there are no talk shows scheduled.
>
> The ant loses the case.
>
> The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing
> up the last bits of the ant's food while the
> government house he's in -- which just happens to
> be the ant's old house -- crumbles around him
> since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The ant
> has disappeared in the snow. And on the TV, which
> the grasshopper bought by selling most of the
> ant's food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing
> before a wildly applauding group of Democrats
> announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned
> in America.

Bullshit
Grasshoppers die with the first frost while ants survive in a semi-socialist society.

ksdhweffgy Wrote:
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> As you probably know, the classical version of the
> Ant and the Grasshopper story goes like this:
>
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all
> summer long, building his house and laying up
> supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks
> he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the
> summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and
> well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter
> so he dies out in the cold.
>
> Updated Ant and Grasshopper fable:
>
> The ant works hard in the withering heat all
> summer long, building his house and laying up
> supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks
> he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the
> summer away. Come winter, the shivering
> grasshopper calls a press conference and demands
> to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm
> and well fed while others are cold and starving.
> CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of
> the shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant
> in his comfortable home with a table filled with
> food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
> How can it be that, in a country of such wealth,
> this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
>
> Then a representative of the NAAGB (The National
> Association for the Advancement of Green Bugs)
> shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with
> "green bias", and makes the case that the
> grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of
> greenism. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with
> the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings
> "It's Not Easy Being Green." Bill and Hillary
> Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS
> Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that
> they will do everything they can for the
> grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he
> deserves by those who benefited unfairly during
> the Reagan summers, or as Bill refers to it, the
> "Temperatures of the 80's." Richard Gephardt
> exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that
> the ant has gotten rich off the back of the
> grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike
> on the ant to make him pay his "fair share".
> Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and
> Anti-greenism Act," retroactive to the beginning
> of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to
> hire a proportionate number of green bugs and,
> having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,
> his home is confiscated by the government.
> Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the
> grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant,
> and the case is tried before a panel of federal
> judges that Bill appointed from a list of
> single-parent welfare moms who can only hear cases
> on Thursday afternoon between 1:30 and 3:00 PM
> when there are no talk shows scheduled.
>
> The ant loses the case.
>
> The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing
> up the last bits of the ant's food while the
> government house he's in -- which just happens to
> be the ant's old house -- crumbles around him
> since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The ant
> has disappeared in the snow. And on the TV, which
> the grasshopper bought by selling most of the
> ant's food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing
> before a wildly applauding group of Democrats
> announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned
> in America.

Excellent cut-and-paste job. We need lemmings like you.

Do you sell the asshole? Yes or No?

No, if you paid into unemployment insurance as all people paying taxes do, you are entitled to that insurance claim when you are unemployed or have reduced hours.

http://www.vec.virginia.gov/unemployed/online-services/apply-for-unemployment-benefits

Whore yourself out on backpage until you have $25,000 and than you can follow our stock trades here on FFXU. You will be bankin hard!

Warren Buffett just said some people just don't belong in this economy and would be better off fighting and dying in some place like Afghanistan.

Otherwise, this thread is obviously a troll thread by the person(s) obsessed about getting responses for race.

ksdhweffgy Wrote:
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> As you probably know, the classical version of the
> Ant and the Grasshopper story goes like this:
>
> The ant loses the case.
>

Real life story this week:

http://www.ibtimes.com/immigration-discrimination-laws-nebraska-beef-ltd-improperly-required-workers-prove-2066231

Illegal immigration. The root of our problems.