Debtor's prisons

Sadly, it sure is...

In their never ending quest to fuck over the poor, the working class, and the middle class, republicans in Arizona (and we could just say republicans, period), have added a provision to collecting unemployment insurance:  if one is offered a job paying 20% more than your weekly unemployment stipend one is required to take the job or have your benefits cut off (keep in mind, too, that you've been paying into the unemployment fund through payroll taxes your entire career).  For those wondering, unemployment checks in Arizona are a whopping $240 a week, so if you're offered $288 a week, regardless of your skill set, you have to take it.  All of which means it you were an accountant making $50,000 a year who suddenly got laid off, Kentucky Fried Chicken can offer you $7.00 an hour for forty hours a week, and the skills you spent a lifetime training for and honing will go to waste so you can come home smelling like Crisco every day.

Frankly, this reeks all too much of a modern day indentured servitude.

Give republicans a few more years and they'll be enacting laws to make slavery legal again.  No sense in the Koch brothers paying minimum wage when they can own you and make you work for gruel, a straw mat in a shed, and ass whippings...

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee