[LVHerbie]

just curious if anyone knows how it works... if you pay self-employment tax you should eligible right?

[remmy358]

i know nothing about this...but i HIGHLY DOUBT IT...couldn't anyone just do it then?

[purecarnagge]

gambling is a entertainment hobby is not considered employment or a job. Thats like saying you work for yourself and now your claiming unemployment. unless you have business setup etc won't happen.

[BrentCrude]

I live in an area where steelworkers and democrats rule the roost and run the mafia.The steel industry goes through booms and busts where a person can get laid off for 7 out of 8 years and always be taken care of by the government.They call it unemployment compensation and re training but it's just glorified welfare.Then they have a thing called sub pay and trade dislocation or something to that BS affect and you get paid as much for not working as you do for working.

If you aren't in a union and get laid off,you will be working at Wal Mart or Mickey D's the next day.If you are in the steelworkers union special interest group,you hang out at the bar or playing with off road vehicle toys all day and you make a good living.It's a nice form of selective socialism if you are in the union-democrat good old boys club.

Then in bad economic times like right now where the dollar is shrunken,the foreign companies move in and get subsidies to run the iron mines and the employees don't care if they make shrunken dollars or the company they work for is a foreign company collecting welfare.