“What is this? France?”
Not even France is as bad as what we have become.
...but what about those who never had a job, who don’t want a job, can’t spell job. What about those needy Americans, we must make an exception, to send them some of Odumbo’s stash.......
*B*end
*O*ver,
*H*ere
*I*t
*C*omes
*A*gain
Sorry, Grandkids and Great-Grandkids....
In PA, it’s called “partials”. Probably every state already does this. If you’re not working full time you can get reduced unemployment compensation under certain conditions.
Sorry Sen reed, this will never fly — unless you throw in a Free Pony.
I had to read that twice, to make sure I wasn’t interpreting it wrong.
Good grief. (And it just figures that McCain would be looking at it!)
At its logical conclusion, we'd have "full employment", but everyone would be home on the government dole. Only two little problems; no actual goods would be produced by companies with non-working workers, remaining companies with workers who work would be taxed out of existence, producing more non-working "workers". Great way to kill an economy.
Businesses might better just lay them off. Unemployment insurance will have to go up, or the democrats will have to steal other peoples money from somewhere else.
The American tax slaves are already making their bricks without straw. Add welfare death care and cap and tax to all this, and we'll be a third world country overnight. No one will be able to eat (Except for the politicians. They'll still have their jets, mansions, Delmonico steaks and fine wines.)
This sure sounds like a stupid idea to me. Paying people not to work.Yeah that will get us out of debt.
Jack Reed, the Senator from RI. The state that is second only to Michigan in unemployment. He has done a really good job for his state, sarcasm,. Now let’s see if he can screw the rest of the country.
I have a better idea (from France)......change a full work-week to 30 hours rather than 40.
Overnight, you will have massive employment gains on paper......in reality, you turned your economy into a daycare center.
this is a sop to the government unions, since they’re the ones who predominantly would up with ‘furlough’ days, and especially california (big electoral votes) who has the worst forlough days
This is already the case in a handful of notoriously pro-union states, most notably Michigan. If your hours get cut from 40 to 35 you can file an unemployment claim for those 5 hrs. It’s a major reason that the cost of their Workers Comp is so high (and correspondingly, their unemployment rate)
Bttt
More giveaways on the way.
Since the employers pay unemployment and any reduction in hours are a temporary remedy during hard times, this has to have an alterior motive.
Let’s see, since all the big busineeses are finding increased productivity with less workers, is this the Dums new Socialist workers bill. How much you want to bet that all of the unemployed are going to be paid by their former employers IF the companies don’t rehire them.
That way the Fed can reduce the unemployment #S and not be hindered by the expiration of benefits