Maybe raising the minimum wage about 10% last summers wasn't a great idea? Maybe we should stop scaring the heck out of potential employers?
Showing compassion as individuals towards another individual is a good thing. It is another thing for a government to do so.
As said in Star Trek, sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.
Governments should not be in the charity business because government should not discriminate (and I don’t mean this in a racial way). Not everyone in need deserves to be helped. Governments are too large and too inefficient to separate the “greedy from the needy”.
Individuals and small charities are better able to do so.
We are where we are today because the government got into the social welfare business starting with the New Deal on through the Great Society. How many generations have grown up on welfare? While there have been many individuals that have managed to fight their way out, on the whole it is easier to just accept what is.
As long as there were more “producers” than “takers” the system sort of worked. But the burden on the producers has grown each year, not just on individual also on businesses.
Like the final straw on the camel’s back, we are reaching the point that the producers in this nation can not sustains supporting those that do not produce.
Am I less compassionate then you for pointing this out? Misplaced compassion is what got us here.
Extend unemployment don’t extend unemployment, it does not matter (except to those individual receiving it). The problem goes way beyond the current debate.
Those currently on unemployment are like a drowning person. If our society attempts to “save them” may very well end up drowning itself.
It is a vicious circle, the more we try to help the deeper in debt we get, the less sustainable the burden gets. We are on a sinking ship in a storm. We have enough fuel to make it to a port or we could go back out and try to save the one that is drowning. If we do that we may not survive ourselves.
99 weeks of unemployment is bs. I was on it for about 5 months last summer and got tired of looking for a job at my old salary and got something thats paying about half of what i was making. Its tough as hell living paycheck to paycheck but Im getting by. In my town alone theres lots of businesses looking for work.. fast food, diners and such so people need to learn humility and take what they can get, I know I did.