“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...
So why, a self admitted curmudgeon, did you bring that situation up on this thread about getting more men back to work? What point were you trying to make? Is your TDS acting up again?
Plus there’s human nature. After 8 years sitting on the couch a whole lot of inertia sets in.