A Sane Society Wouldn't Permit This
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. ·
November 30, 2011 at 5:56pm
From CBS:
Former Philadelphia schools superintendent Arlene Ackerman, who was given a nearly $1-million buyout earlier this year, has applied for unemployment.
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Jul '11
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If it were April I would be able to dismiss this as an off-color joke. How ridiculous.
Dec '10
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Means testing. It's the only way to bring any rationality back to our welfare state. Sure, it reattaches the stigma, but I don't see that as necessarily being a bad thing.
Jun '10
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A million just doesn't go as far as it once did.
Jan '11
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Funny how some disparate stories start to coalesce ... the law of unintended consequences of San Francisco's Happy Meal ban, the unintended consequences of the healthcare mandate, the unintended consequences of unemployment insurance, and so on.
In these and other cases, we see the contrast between "old-fashioned" charity and imposing social "justice." A social policy (like unemployment insurance here) is justified as a helping hand to those in need ... but when the policy actually goes into effect, it's treated as a civil right, to which everyone has equal claim, needy or not.
They sell it to us as compassion and charity, but then they enforce it with lawyers.
Dec '10
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This may be a dumb question, but if it's an "application" can't it be denied? A buyout is a form of unemployment insurance as it keeps you whole until a new job is found. Unemployment from the government is redundant.
Am I too sane?
Apr '11
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Sorry Stephen, you are not insane, but the more I hang around, the more I think we've been silently moved to a "bizzaro" world where the only sanity, may be insanity!
May '10
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QED, our society has long since ceased to be sane.
Jan '11
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At best one can say that Ms. Ackerman is no hypocrite. As a teacher she lived her life as a member of the dependent class. As a union member she must have understood and lived by the principle of take the money and shame is an archaic concept.
Dec '10
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I'm for it. Not the buyout, but the unemployment application. When Mr. Chauvinist lost his job in August, he applied for unemployment on principle. He didn't collect a single red penny as he was receiving severance pay, but he wanted to make sure he was counted among the unemployed.
We're running against the Chicago Left folks. Let's at least throw some elbows. This is a perfect story for us. Overcompensated public employee, unemployed under a Democratic administration, seeks unemployment compensation. It's a perfect picture of the parasitic ruling class eating itself.
Jun '10
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Stephen: This may be a dumb question, but if it's an "application" can't it be denied? A buyout is a form of unemployment insurance as it keeps you whole until a new job is found. Unemployment from the government is redundant.
Am I too sane? · Nov 30 at 10:27am
Yes.
Aug '10
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I dunno, if I had a million bucks, a puny unemployment check wouldn't be worth standing in line for. I think she may discover the same thing.
Mar '11
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No doubt it's the principle of the matter.
Aug '11
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Shameless.