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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jun 1, 2009 16:28:04 GMT -5
well, does the disabled person get disability checks? They should, i know its not much...my uncle lives off of 700month. His wife chooses not to work, so they have nothing and live with her parents.
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Post by alfie on Jun 1, 2009 22:58:42 GMT -5
So at what point do you stop the extensions? But in an area where a steady industry has vanished, then I believe that the workforce should get retrained for needed jobs and they should get up to a year of assistance. If an idustry has been steadily vanishing (like steel, which has been declining for years) than it is only common sense that someone should have been preparing for the worst. By that I mean you should have been going to school in order to prepare for the day when you aren't going to have job. Either that or you should have been looking for another job in a more secure industry. You shouldn't be waiting until your employment has run out. |
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Post by alfie on Jun 1, 2009 23:17:43 GMT -5
My husband makes less than people that work at McDonalds. That is how totally messed up our country's Capitalist system is (and healthcare system). So what do you think he does for a living? Clean toilets? (actually they probably get paid much more than him too) No. He works for "Valley Mental Health Care" taking care of disabled adults. Is that the best our country can do? My husband has a BA of sociology, worked as a charge nurse for 5 years at an assisted living facility and has a lot of other experience in social work. I just hope that he can at least get a decent job after he goes to Grad school for 3 years and we put ourselves like 60,000$ in debt to pay for his MSW. Are we on "welfare"? Yes, foodstamps and medicaid and I really don't care if anyone thinks we are "lazy" or blah-blah whatever the right-wingers always say. My husband works full time (and until recently had 2 jobs), I am an artist and stay home with my daughter--right now I am taking care of 6 kids (3 are my sisters). I don't feel guilty at all that we use "welfare". It's not our fault these companies don't pay people a living wage. Are you not able to get any financial aid for your husband's schooling? So what happened to you husband's job as a charge nurse? If your husband has this much experience it should not be that difficult for him to get a better paying job in the health field. I really feel there is something else that you are not telling us. You should at least be thankful that you are getting medicaid because according to Obama 40 million Americans don't have health insurance. |
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Post by teresahrc on Jun 2, 2009 0:20:25 GMT -5
Wow. Okay, I will do my best to answer this, esp. because I really love my husband.
What happened to my husbands job--Well, first of all, he is not an official CNA or registered nurse or anything. He was trained on the job by a nursing home that was implementing "the Eden alternative" it was a program designed to help improve the lives of the elderly in nursing homes (using things like bringing in more people from the community, bringing pets in, plants, more music, more outside activities etc) basically making their lives better. They hired my husband because he had a BA in sociology.
That was all in Michigan. We moved here to be near my family for a while, because we had thought we would be moving to the Middle East, so we wanted to spend some time here. He couldn't get a job in a Nursing home here because even though he has training and experience, he doesn't have a CNA. So he found what he could find, and even that was hard to find.
So NO there isn't anything I'm "not telling" you, I mean I could tell you my whole life story, but that would take too long.
The bottom line is that this life is not about making money. I honestly don't care if I can't afford a car or a blackberry or whatever. Look at the mess materialism has put us in. My husband is helping people and he likes his job, I'm not sure why that's not good enough for some people. He is going to(Lord willing) start Grad school soon so that we can have more oppertunities and find a job that will help people and pay more (probably through Catholic Relief Services--the Catholic Church pays people a living wage that they can actually support their family with)
And My husband and I DO NOT have medicaid, only our children. I do not have heath insurance nor does my husband. Our insurance is trusting God. Maybe we will have insurance later? I'm not worried.
Is there anything else you want to know?
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Post by Cepha on Jun 2, 2009 8:51:33 GMT -5
Doesn't it bother you though, that someone who is caring for disabled persons should receive less money than someone working at McDonalds? It's really unfair to the disabled persons. My husband only took the job because he couldn't find anything else in this town. Most of the people that work there are--I'm sorry--really crazy, because who would want to work there making a little more than minimum wage and no benefits? So they end up with people working there that probably couldn't care less about the people they are helping. My husband is the exception, he really takes good care of the residents because to him he is serving Christ instead of the company he works for. This country is backwards. For us, it's ok to pay 1 executive the equivelant of a hundred standard worker's pay. Teachers, cops, firefighters, EMT workers are payed minimal living standard wages while we see no problems with paying business people tons of money. Crazy. In my opinion, pay should be based on living conditions of the area where the job is. For example, it makes sense that in NYC a person gets payed more than someone in Dogbarf, Indiana as long as the living expenses justify it. America, in some respects, is backwards. Still love her, but she's like a woman with Bipolar Disorder. She does some things in life great and others that are horrible. |
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Post by Cepha on Jun 2, 2009 9:10:44 GMT -5
But in an area where a steady industry has vanished, then I believe that the workforce should get retrained for needed jobs and they should get up to a year of assistance. If an idustry has been steadily vanishing (like steel, which has been declining for years) than it is only common sense that someone should have been preparing for the worst. By that I mean you should have been going to school in order to prepare for the day when you aren't going to have job. Either that or you should have been looking for another job in a more secure industry. You shouldn't be waiting until your employment has run out. Don't get me wrong, I agree that unprepared persons shouldn't get any help after their unemployment runs out, but for now as long as there are funds that they paid into available to them, they should get them. |
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Post by Cepha on Jun 2, 2009 9:13:15 GMT -5
My husband makes less than people that work at McDonalds. That is how totally messed up our country's Capitalist system is (and healthcare system). So what do you think he does for a living? Clean toilets? (actually they probably get paid much more than him too) No. He works for "Valley Mental Health Care" taking care of disabled adults. Is that the best our country can do? My husband has a BA of sociology, worked as a charge nurse for 5 years at an assisted living facility and has a lot of other experience in social work. I just hope that he can at least get a decent job after he goes to Grad school for 3 years and we put ourselves like 60,000$ in debt to pay for his MSW. Are we on "welfare"? Yes, foodstamps and medicaid and I really don't care if anyone thinks we are "lazy" or blah-blah whatever the right-wingers always say. My husband works full time (and until recently had 2 jobs), I am an artist and stay home with my daughter--right now I am taking care of 6 kids (3 are my sisters). I don't feel guilty at all that we use "welfare". It's not our fault these companies don't pay people a living wage. Are you not able to get any financial aid for your husband's schooling? So what happened to you husband's job as a charge nurse? If your husband has this much experience it should not be that difficult for him to get a better paying job in the health field. I really feel there is something else that you are not telling us. You should at least be thankful that you are getting medicaid because according to Obama 40 million Americans don't have health insurance. I think it's time you guys (Teresa) move to where the work "is". There's a shift in America today. Life is changing. Over the past 8 years, we lost so much of our industry and brick & morter businesses to foreign competition that was allowed to infiltrate our country. I'm not for this "free trade" garbage. AMERICA FIRST! But we got turned around over the past 8 years. I hope this gets reversed along with all the other detrimental policies that are being reversed now and we can go back to how times were under the Clinton Administration when our country prospered greatly. |
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Post by teresahrc on Jun 2, 2009 10:36:57 GMT -5
LOL Cepha! Where is the work? Hate to depress everyone, but this town IS where the work is now! Our town was on the news as having the lowest unemployment in the country! www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1019608864 |
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Post by emily445455 on Jun 2, 2009 10:39:25 GMT -5
I wish I could get a disability check. Well I can...I've just heard it's a very long and difficult process.
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jun 2, 2009 10:51:02 GMT -5
Doesn't it bother you though, that someone who is caring for disabled persons should receive less money than someone working at McDonalds? It's really unfair to the disabled persons. My husband only took the job because he couldn't find anything else in this town. Most of the people that work there are--I'm sorry--really crazy, because who would want to work there making a little more than minimum wage and no benefits? So they end up with people working there that probably couldn't care less about the people they are helping. My husband is the exception, he really takes good care of the residents because to him he is serving Christ instead of the company he works for. This country is backwards. For us, it's ok to pay 1 executive the equivelant of a hundred standard worker's pay. Teachers, cops, firefighters, EMT workers are payed minimal living standard wages while we see no problems with paying business people tons of money. Crazy. In my opinion, pay should be based on living conditions of the area where the job is. For example, it makes sense that in NYC a person gets payed more than someone in Dogbarf, Indiana as long as the living expenses justify it. America, in some respects, is backwards. Still love her, but she's like a woman with Bipolar Disorder. She does some things in life great and others that are horrible. Cepha...pay is based on where you live...here in beaumont you dont get paid the same as you would in houston...it costs a lil more to live there. |
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