Originally Posted by smoke

You want to talk about bullshit. One of my brothers recently got laid off after 16 years due to the recession. He filed for unemployment but didn't hear anything for almost 3 months. So he finally got someone on the phone and the lady politely laughed stating that because of government cutbacks there weren't enough people to review cases and the average time to have your case reviewed and collect is now 1 year!!!! Just imagine that, you lose your job and have no shot at unemployment for 1 year because of government cutbacks. So what the hell are people supposed to do?