Comments :: Changes to NC unemployment benefits could be delayed

Changes to NC unemployment benefits could be delayed

Click here to return to the Blog Post

32 Comments

WRAL.com welcomes your comments on this story. All comments are moderated prior to publication based on our posting guidelines. Please review them prior to posting and if your message is not approved.

This story is closed for comments. Comments on WRAL.com news stories are accepted and moderated between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.

page 1 \| 2
<prev	next>

sort order: oldest first | newest first

I know 3 or more that have been drawing 498.00 bucks a week for over a year,,, They just got another 26 weeks,They were making 12.00 / hour at their job with lots of over time,,, Now why would they want to work for 8 to 10 bucks an hour at a job today?? They do not even look work, why should they,,, The system is broke,, the group running the ESC could care less, unemployed people need them so they can have a job.. The system is broke,, we need less Govt....

oleguy
January 18, 2013 8:46 a.m.

Report abuse

"I see. The democrats have controlled the NC Legislature for the past 100 plus years....Republicans just got control in 2011." - btneast

Not too current on national events, I see. Clinton got us a surplus despite Reagans' effort to explode the deficit into the stratosphere. It only took GWB and his master, Dick "deficits don't matter" Cheney a few years to blow it back up and leave us with scarce revenue coming in.

Sorry for the misfire

goldenosprey
January 17, 2013 11:35 a.m.

Report abuse

The worst mass shooting in US history was VA Tech. He used 2 pistols. One had 10 round magazine, and the other had a 15 round magazine. He just carried a backpack ful of extra mags for about 400 rounds total. He then walked unfettered through a Gun Free Zone killing at will. That is how well gun laws protect people.- btneast

Not too current on national events, I see. Clinton got us a surplus despite Reagans' effort to explode the deficit into the stratosphere. It only took GWB and his master, Dick "deficits don't matter" Cheney a few years to blow it back up and leave us with scarce revenue coming in.

goldenosprey
January 17, 2013 11:06 a.m.

Report abuse

I don't think it's fair that some people have had full benefits for an extended time and I would receive less in both length and amount

Personally, I think the word "fair" should be stricken from the English language. Life isn't fair, and never will be. It's up to the individual to stay ahead of the steamroller called "life".If you sit in the middle of the street crying " it's not fair", the steamroller will run over you, and keep right on going.

btneast
January 17, 2013 10:58 a.m.

Report abuse

They have never ever cared about the citizens of this state nor any debt in the past. The party of "spend regardless of whether we can pay for it or not" just keeps on spending

RadioDJ....not too current on NC political history, I see. The democrats have controlled the NC Legislature for the past 100 plus years....Republicans just got control in 2011.

btneast
January 17, 2013 10:51 a.m.

Report abuse

Bravo, Senator Hagan.

NC owes all this $ to the feds because the business community got what it whined for in the 90s - SUTA slashed so that, in the event the bankers and deregulators trashed the economy and folks lost their jobs, there would not be enough in the trust fund. I blame dems in the GA for capitulating to the Art Popes of NC. Interesting to see the republican honorables are afraid to turn down the fed $ despite their huffin & puffin. Looks like NC, like most red states, will continue to mooch more off Washington than we contribute.

goldenosprey
January 17, 2013 10:23 a.m.

Report abuse

why are we so many of us lazy and just want everything handed to us? i think a real good educated guess is that over half of people on unemployment want to be on it. they're not looking for work. registering their fake job looking so they can collect till it runs out.

They are the Queit time generation..The ones who were told everything will be ok and to look the other way....The soccer mommies who gave them everything they wanted..Spoiled them silly. The hard working generations are no longer the leaders as you can see with the economy and the unemployment and the state of the country.

Uhavenoclu
January 17, 2013 9:44 a.m.

Report abuse

autismawareness
January 17, 2013 9:04 a.m.

Report abuse

Deficits don't matter!

xylem01
January 17, 2013 8:20 a.m.

Report abuse

My company laid off a few employees for 4 weeks then called them back to work. Several of the employees refused the call back because they preferred to stay on unemployment. I attempted to notify the NC Employment Security office who told me there was nothing they could do, if the employee doesn't report the work offer they will continue to draw unemployment. Unemployment should help you until you can find work not become a way of life that encourages you not to work.

tnowen
January 16, 2013 10:18 p.m.

Report abuse