tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post6949775523879461251..comments2023-10-08T03:32:30.673-04:00Comments on MoreMonmouthMusings: Schundler's Departure Is A Sad SpectacleArt Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-85118408267271413232010-08-29T08:14:02.545-04:002010-08-29T08:14:02.545-04:00Let Bret Collect said...
Art, are you sure that s...<b>Let Bret Collect said... </b><br /><i>Art, are you sure that someone who is fired for misconduct cannot receive unemployment benefits in New Jersey? I just checked the NJ Department of Labor's website. According to them, someone fired for regular misconduct can receive unemployment benefits after waiting six weeks.</i><br /><br />I'm not sure. As I have written previously, I had an former employee get benefits, over my protest, even though I had a job available for the person.<br /><br />The key word in the page you linked is <b><i>may</i></b>. It seems to me that the rules for granting unemployment benefits are much more flexible than the rules for granting Race to the Top awards.<br /><br />The only thing I am sure of regarding unemployment benefits is that the premiums my company pays are over 2X the amount of the state payroll taxes we pay on a quarterly basis.<br /><br />This was the "straw that broke the camel's back" for me as I let people go when the economy tanked. It is keeping me from hiring people now and suppressing the wages I pay.<br /><br />The other thing that I am pretty sure of is that as a business owner I can't collect, yet, as the owner, I pay the personal premium and the employer premium. This caused me to cut my own salary by 75%.<br /><br />Just yesterday a young woman entering her senior year in collage asked me how I got into my business. She was looking towards the future and inquirying how I and others ended up where they did.<br /><br />My answer is that I took a job that I was vastly over qualified for rather than accept unemployment benefits. The owner of the leasing company didn't want to hire me because of my qualifications. "You're just trying to learn this business to start your own," he said. That was the first time the thought of starting a leasing company occurred to me. I just wanted a paycheck rather than unemployment check while I found my next real job.<br /><br />"That hadn't occured to me," I told him, "But you're spending $2500 a week in advertising to make the phone ring and you've got two guys who can't close a door answering those calls." He hired me on the spot.<br /><br />This situation with Schundler is a mess. It could dominate the headlines throughout the fall, derailing Christie's reform agenda and "tool kit" legislation. It could be a distraction from the congressional campaigns. It could give previously demoralized Democrats throughout New Jersey an issue that puts them back in the game.<br /><br />All of that is a matter of concern.<br /><br />But what deeply concerns me is that as a culture we've so given up our sense of personal responsiblity that a guy with the talent and skills of Bret Schunlder, a so called conservative, would grab for the government tit first and then look for a job or business opportunity later.<br /><br />We really have become a nanny state.Art Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04100037385214581196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-27139638142029777462010-08-29T07:15:59.568-04:002010-08-29T07:15:59.568-04:00I remember how Bret Schundler flip-flopped on gun ...I remember how Bret Schundler flip-flopped on gun control during his campaign for governor against McGreevey. To New Jersey gun owners, Schundler is Judas. <br /><br />I hope that bad karma bites you right in the ass, Bret.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-39799287374785932992010-08-29T07:02:33.659-04:002010-08-29T07:02:33.659-04:00Art, are you sure that someone who is fired for mi...Art, are you sure that someone who is fired for misconduct cannot receive unemployment benefits in New Jersey? I just checked the NJ Department of Labor's website. According to them, someone fired for regular misconduct can receive unemployment benefits after waiting six weeks. <br /><br /><a href="http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/ui/aftrfile/fired.html" rel="nofollow">New Jersey Department of Labor</a>Let Bret Collectnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-29918895570053721692010-08-29T05:49:58.990-04:002010-08-29T05:49:58.990-04:00The super sized windbag thinks he's too big to...The super sized windbag thinks he's too big to apologize.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-330682348491411992010-08-28T23:09:35.368-04:002010-08-28T23:09:35.368-04:00If you read todays paper Schundler has emails that...If you read todays paper Schundler has emails that show he told the governors people the figures could not be corrected. That is he didn't lie.<br />it also appears that the right number might have been in there at one time but got "lost " somewhere along the way.<br />I beleive what happened was that someone maybe a dem holdover in the DOE and /or the AG's office sabotaged this.<br /><br />Christies staff then tried to blame the Federal government and when that backfired made Schundler the Fall Guy.TRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-33126719683653481582010-08-28T19:43:48.075-04:002010-08-28T19:43:48.075-04:00I still haven't seen Gov. Christina apologize ...I still haven't seen Gov. Christina apologize to President Obama or anyone else he blamed with his raging and sarcastic attacks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-8024578356500420152010-08-28T13:02:20.309-04:002010-08-28T13:02:20.309-04:00The underlying problem is Governor Christie's ...The underlying problem is Governor Christie's attempt to get the Federal money (which is really money that Obama stole from our children and grandchildren) in the first place. We do not want this! Let the NJEA suck it up now that they don't have the money. They did nothing but obstruct getting the money, which would have been spent on their members. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I hope the NJEA are the first to get put fully on Obama care, since they like Obama so much.<br /><br /><b>Lonegan for Education Commissioner <br /><br />FIRE PALLONE! <br />Anna Little for Congress<br /><br />FIRE OBAMA IN 2012 !<br /><br />RESPECT THE 9-11 families NO MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO, build it somewhere else.<br /><br />Mr. Christie, act like the conservative you campaigned as and CUT THE SPENDING!</b><br /><br />We are going to take this country back and restore prosperity by making the government serve the people starting in November.Conservative Guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20985341.post-64973110617529160212010-08-28T11:09:41.310-04:002010-08-28T11:09:41.310-04:00what a loss, for a dumb mistake: it looked, and lo...what a loss, for a dumb mistake: it looked, and looks more now to me, like Schundler was a "token" cabinet appointment to the conserv's in the party, and methinks all this media-hype on radio and tv, for our few-months Gov., may be going a bit to his Bruce-music-filled head!!..still think Bret had better fiscal and business ideas, and would've been a great Gov.. he made, and can make, his own fortune,so,won't starve for sure, and because he tried to save an aide, he's now been made the example: tow the line and don't ever mess-up,or out ya go!!..and,ps: did we REALLY think NJ with a GOP gov. right now, was going to get gifted from NObama, anyhow??.. don't be naive!Still love ya, Bret..noreply@blogger.com