Unemployment Claims Crash State Web Sites

1sockchuck writes "A sign of the times: a surge in filings for unemployment benefits has crashed online application systems in four states this week. Web sites in Ohio, New York, Kentucky and North Carolina have been knocked offline by unusually high volumes of jobless claims. Phone applications systems appearing to be faring even worse in many states. The thin silver lining: states are hiring workers for phone banks and buying new servers to prop up their web sites."

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Vast numbers of unemployed, surfing the web

[ciaohound]

and yet I'm able to get first post? This can't be right.

Re:HUH??

[hairyfeet]

They can mark me troll all they want, I can burn karma all freaking day and we have a lot worse things to worry about. It seems Mr. Troll mod seems to have forgotten his history. Maybe he doesn't remember the last recession when they screamed "welfare queens" and cut "entitlements" but I do. Remember homeless vets sleeping on the grates outside the white house to keep from freezing to death? I do. What a great way to treat those that fought for our country and then had a run of bad luck.

The simple fact is for the amount of money they have shoved into the pockets of Wall Street executives riding in private jets we could have gotten rid of ALL the toxic mortgages by simply giving the home owners the deeds. That's right! Every last one. Instead we are pouring incredible amounts of money into the bank accounts of the top 0.1% and expecting it to...what? Trickle freaking down? Is there ANYONE who still buys that voodooo economics BS? If we would have payed off the mortgages our banks would have been flushed with cash they could have loaned to SMBs and new startups, the REAL lifeblood of this country.

But instead we'll scream about "welfare queens!" while Wall Street moneymen carry our money by the truckload and use it to offshore our jobs and stuff it into overseas banks. Personally I think all these "coporate handout kings" and the obscene amounts of money we are handing them will simply drive our country right into Great Depression part II. We should have either stayed out of it completely or if the congress critters refused to then help out Main Street NOT Wall street.. Folks seem to forget the schemes the government cooked up trying to stomp the "economic downturn" in the early 1930s made things 10 times worse. But what is it they say about failing to learn from history