Police Beat: Le Roy resident accused of shoplifting basket of groceries

Did he think no one would notice a full shopping cart with out bagged groceries leaving the building?

Gotta be a would be Governor joke here somewhere.....

I am not saying what he did was right, but did anyone stop to think that he as well as his family needed those groceries?

At my church and assuming many others, people will purchase grocery cards and put them in the collection basket or donate them for use by people who need them. The Pastor has discretion to give them to those who need them. One need not steal, just reach out for help. Now this guy is in the system and will pay dearly. Clearly Not worth it.

There's no need to steal food, Herbert. Contrary to popular belief, nobody in this country starves for lack of food. If a person is indigent, there are avenues of support for food, clothing and shelter..and leads to a job..yeah, a JOB.

There's another subject that sticks in my craw like an inhaled toothpick. Just because you're qualified in a specific field and can't find work in said field, that does not excuse you from accepting another job offered to you.

Many people simply choose not to take a job because it's not one they WANT to do and because they can now collect unemployment for an unprecedented period of time. This digs ALL of us into a deeper hole. there are plenty of jobs waiting to be filled. They might not pay what you want to be paid and it might not be something you want to do but you should take them if offered until you can find something better.

If more people took those jobs or retrained in a new field, this economy that everyone complains about would come back in a more timely fashion. Whining about how Obama isn't creating the jobs he promised and waiting for the government to DO something about your lack of motivation only hurts you and everyone else.

It's no wonder people are duped into believing that unemployment is a good thing when they're being told lies like this:

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Get off your butt and work, retrain in a new field, do whatever it takes so that you do not need to rely on unemployment or some other form of assistance. Parasites that take everything from their host without contributing anything back eventually kill the host. There's no symbiotic relationship.

This is exactly what's happening in this country. The government wants to leech you dry, to raise your taxes and then give a little back to you hoping that you'll be fooled into thinking they're doing you a favor. On the other hand everyone wants more from their government. Certain groups of people feel entitled to their welfare and unemployment. Both of those things only hurt us when they're abused and "the abuse business is a boomin!"

The real host in this equation, the people who NOW work and pay their taxes will eventually have the life sucked out of them and their offerings will die. When they die, welfare dies and so does unemployment. Someone has to pay for those programs in order for them to exist.

If you really want to make a difference and do you part to jump start this economy, stop waiting for the government to save you. Get off your arse and work. Take that job that you really don't want to do. You'll feel better about yourself and you'll help the economy by not being a leech.

I'm sorry, nice tirade and all but wholly based on generalizations and assumptions. I am now working again after being laid off so let me give you a few inside observances based in real life....

1 Unemployment is paid in the first 26 weeks by the former employers NOT the Govt, and what you get is based on income from those employers. To get that money you have to report every 2 weeks with a list of places applied to which are verified by them.

2) You are innundated with assistance with retraining, financial aid for re-education and for consolidated job searches, also at your appt they search a job bank and give you yellow postcards to take to employers saying that you have been verified as qualified.

3) While I was unemployed, I applied to the "unwanted jobs" and I'd like to relate a few problems with the oversimplification of this. Most places treat their application process like a secret, you cant leave the premises with it, must take a little morality test. Others dont even have applications anymore, they tell you that you must go to their website and apply online. Then there are the old standards of flippin burgers, there are so many people out of work that these easy jobs at low pay are in a buyers market, they will pick and choose the very best in their opinion, and in one checkback I did I had an employer tell me they avoid overqualified people as much as non qualified as the overqualified tend to be problems with making the job more like their old job as well as bristling under the younger less exp bosses sometimes having power trip type issues on directing older obviously more exp people.

So please before you stand on old generalizations you need to realize that this is 2010 not the 90's or 80's almost everyone I met during this 3 month hell of unemployment is trying their level best, but I have seen people when I was conversing with them in tears of frustration and rejection (And while its not manly for some I have been at this point too) when making small talk about how long we have been searching and why certain places reject you.

You judge about people not accepting jobs... I challenge you to try this, go to one of these places you think is so easy to be hired in and people dont because they are too proud, and apply, see how far you get, if you even get a call back, or how many weeks when you call they say oh the hiring manager isnt here or the position is already filled etc...

Then I'll accept your rant on the "leeches" and "parasites" of these programs.

Doug, I would assume you have never been in the position where you had to do something desperate to survive. There are kids on Americas' streets that are homeless, no food, no one to turn to. Watch the movie the "The blind side", and tell me more of your ludicrous ideas about whats wrong w/ our government and the people, whom I might add you call neighbors. If you "hate" it so much here why do you continue to stay, move to Canada, China, Mexico?

Kyle, the latest rounds of unemployment are paid for by bailout money. Everyone pays for it including future tax payers. Guess you've been missing the news.

Herbert, I've never had to do anything desperate to survive? I think working every day is desperate enough. I was so desperate for work at one time that I took a job grooming horses on a horse farm in Mendon and had to muck out stalls. Try raking blueberries in Maine while you're getting bitten half to death by black flies. I worked in a pop bottling factory staring into a bright light while watching for broken bottles to go by. I've also worked in apartment complexes painting apartments, fixing appliances, running snow blowers and plows, doing manual labor..etc. I've worked on maintenance crews emptying garbage and mopping floors. Those jobs SUCKED but I did them. No, I've never struggled...ever (sarcasm).

I learned a trade and have been employed steadily ever since. I collected unemployment for 1 week of my life when I got laid-off from one job and and searched for another. I opened up the penny saver and there was a job waiting for me. Lucky? Probably. Did I jump on it? Yep.

I'm not gonna watch a movie to tell me the realities of America. I know it's tough for everyone. My own wages have been cut/frozen and and I've lost at least 20% of my compensation over the past few years. My benefits have also been cut like they have for everyone else. It's a good thing I planned ahead and lived within my means so that even if I had to live on my base salary, I could.

Please tell me, where did I say I hate it here? America is still the best place on earth to live so why would I hate it?

BTW, what is wrong with people who think that working more than one part time job is terrible? Whatever happened to the old ethic that free time is a luxury and not a right? There's no reason anyone needs unemployment benefits for three years, period.

Lets say a 3 bedroom apartment in Batavia cost $800, 4 people could live there and split the rent 4 ways. At least that way you'd have a roof over your head and $200/month for rent would be less difficult to come up with.

My sisters and I have joked for a few years about having to buy a place together and all of us living there. The reality is such that it might not be a joke some day. I still say "a lot" of people (not all) are unwilling to do what they need to do to survive. They seem to be full of rights and entitlements that they don't actually have. People seem to have lost sight of what a necessity is, what a luxury is and what a right is.

That's it for me..I've said my piece.