The trash talking of the America worker on Free Republic is a big turn off to lurkers and people trying to figure out what is going on. There are 90 million people not working they are all not dead beats. Get over yourselves. You sound like a bunch of old curmudgeon idiots.
I am not trash-talking the “American Worker”.
I said that I personally know people who are milking disability. There are many more like them. And I don’t know what it would take to convince them to go back to work.
Otherwise you could not have 90+ million drop from the labor force without soup lines and mass starvation.
“The trash talking of the America worker on Free Republic is a big turn off to lurkers and people trying to figure out what is going on.”
I think, by definition, somebody who went from unemployment to disability using 99 weeks of unemployment as evidence is not an American worker. They are taking advantage of the rules rather than moving to a locale that can use whatever their skill set is. I understand not wanting to move. I almost got kicked out of am MBA class because somebody with a four year college degree (don’t know what in) had taken a $12/hour job working for Walmart. There was no other employment in the small town. The (economics) class felt that Walmart should pay this person more because she had a degree. I maintained that she applied for and got a $12/hour job and Walmart was not obliged to pay for a degree they could not use. I thought I was going to be hanged. But the point is, welfare and social security disability enable people to stay where they are rather than doing work they can do if they’d move.
Oh, I probably am a curmudgeon. Let’s see...bah humbug! Humm. Felt pretty good. Yep...