According to the Huffington Post, Tom Delay believes that people are unemployed because they want to be.  Sure, that's easy to say when you have a full time job, can support your family, and can pass judgment on others that aren't as lucky.

I am unemployed.  For awhile, I was able to garner some freelancing work from home, but as my writing assignments have died down, I'm in the search of a steady day job.  It is ridiculous to me that someone in this day and age can get away with saying something like that.  Nothing could be further from the truth -- at least in my experience.

Every day, I wake up with the hope my phone will ring, that there'll be an email in my inbox, that I'll do my daily, extensive job search, and that maybe, just maybe I will find a new job.  Yes, I am on unemployment.  You know what? I'd rather not be.  I'd rather have an office to go to every day, I'd rather have a steady pay check, I'd rather have solid benefits rather than the Cobra payments we're paying barely by the skin of our teeth.  And I'm not alone. I have dozens of friends and family in the same boat.

It's so easy for people with jobs to say that the unemployed wish it on themselves.  But I had a job and I loved it.  No job is perfect, but I loved having a place to go every day, people to talk to and work with.  Every day for me now is looking for work.

I try to do the best I can.  In the moments I take a break from my hours of job hunting, I write.  I cook.  I try to make room for the things I don't have time to do when I'm working all the time.  I am trying to garner more writing work.  But it's not easy, because I've always had a job. I've always had work.  But in this day and age, that's just not guaranteed for anyone anymore.

I'm grateful for whatever help the government gives.  I go to the job hunting lectures, I talk to people on how to improve my resume.  In my opinion, unemployment benefits are helping do the best we can.  Which is just to get by.  I just wish that all the people that are supposed be fighting to make our economy better understood that.