{"id":563,"date":"2009-02-23T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2009-02-23T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T16:20:35","slug":"is_anyone_else_feeling_manipul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Is Anyone Else Feeling Manipulated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/jobs\/news\/articles\/2009\/02\/23\/for_now_laid_off_and_loving_it\/\">Boston Globe<\/a>&nbsp;has a story today about the upside of being unemployed.&nbsp; Well. ok, there actually is an upside&#8211;family time, personal time, etc., but wait a minute.&nbsp; The people in the article state that they know they will eventually have to go back to work, but they don&#8217;t seem to be in a hurry.&nbsp; Oh, so we are paying for their little mini interludes.&nbsp; It used to be that you had to check in with unemployment weekly and tell them about your job search.&nbsp; Have we lost that requirement somewhere (as we are extending unemployment benefits)?&nbsp; Where is common sense&#8211;when unemployment benefits are extended, people wait longer to find a new job&#8211;it&#8217;s called human nature.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The other interesting part of this story is its spin on unemployment.&nbsp; When George Bush was President, 6 per cent unemployment was the end of the world.&nbsp; People didn&#8217;t have enough money to feed their dogs and cats.&nbsp; Now with Barack Obama as President and the unemployment rate climbing (it&#8217;s still not near what it was under Jimmy Carter), there are joys of unemployment.&nbsp; I&#8217;m definitely feeling manipulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe&nbsp;has a story today about the upside of being unemployed.&nbsp; Well. ok, there actually is an upside&#8211;family time, personal time, etc., but wait a minute.&nbsp; The people in the article state that they know they will eventually have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}