Local lawmaker asks state to assist former Ethan Allen employees

Is this guy nuts!! A bailout for Ethan Allen! At lease they can collect unemployment! How come we never hear about the self employed folks out there - contractors, electricians, plumbers, real estate agents - all self employed - not making and money with the housing and credit crisis and are not eligible for unemployment comp! How about a bail out for these poor suckers!!

Enough Waste wrote:

Maybe McLachlan got a house full of funiture for his efforts.

At least a kitchen.

....I'm thinkin' this senator should return the sofa and coffee table they gave him and focus on his old job,'cause from what I'm reading this guy (and the rest of the kabal) are going to be unemployed come the next election......oh, wait, that's right, we Americans now reward poor behavior....sorry!...

living large wrote:

Is this guy nuts!! A bailout for Ethan Allen! At lease they can collect unemployment! How come we never hear about the self employed folks out there - contractors, electricians, plumbers, real estate agents - all self employed - not making and money with the housing and credit crisis and are not eligible for unemployment comp! How about a bail out for these poor suckers!!

...I missed this post....spot-on! I'm one of these folks you describe above,& I'm dead in the water (for months)...thank God I can rob my savings (not really a fun thing to do) to pay the health insurance....if the folks who owe me money/final payments would write some checks I could get through for another 6 months....guess I can "hope for change"...yeah, makes me sick!...

LOL Good luck with this one Sen.

What a tool!