There are NOW HIRING signs all over out town in NE Florida but nobody wants to work for the pay business can afford. A couple of friends who are mid-managers, one at a restaurant and another at a small HVAC company tell us that they cannot even get applicants to come in to apply. Why should they go to work if they can make more money sitting on the couch at home because the Biteme administration pays them more for not working.
This has go to end. Why are no onservative Republicans raising hell about this? (Oh, I forgot, there are no conservative R’s)
Except for a small handful (Meadows, Cruz, etc), the Rs never raise hell about anything. They sit back, collect their fat paychecks, sign off on Democrat nation-ruining laws, and go to Georgetown cocktail parties.
“HVAC company tell us that they cannot even get applicants to come in to apply”
To handle refrigerants, I suspect a person must be certified. When the pool of certified people are fully employed, the only employer recourse is overtime.
Simple, in Florida 275 per week unemployment plus 300 from the feds plus every few months another stimulus check arrives, why work for less than 50 per hour. Ya see, even if you make less on unemployment, your days are your own, no getting up, no listening to people telling you what to do, plus you can smoke weed all day again with no one bothering you.
We live in far NE Florida too. Every day I am amazed the number of young people, circa 30, bike riding or walking or just milling about all day. My wife works from home and I hear her grumbling about it as she glances over her computer and watching them go by. BTW, the schools are in here so no one is off from school. These are working age people.
I remember someone like that. He drew a government check to set at home and do nothing. When the opportunity to make three times what the government paid him, he chose to remain home and let the wife work.
He just could not give up the “Free Money!” even though he could have made more with a real job.