Posted on 05/13/2021 8:00:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Have you ever wondered what happens to flat-earthers?
Not all spend their days eating pudding with plastic spoons and rewatching old sitcoms -- or as fabulists hanging at the end of the bar, boasting of their heroic exploits until closing time.
Some become president of the United States.
Or they find power in President Joe Biden's administration and join him in gaslighting the nation about that dismal April jobs report as businesses struggle to emerge from those government pandemic shutdowns.
With so many Americans now vaccinated, economists predicted about 1 million more Americans would find work, but only 266,000 jobs were added to the economy. According to Biden, this has nothing to do with generous federal unemployment benefits that are scheduled to last until September, on top of state unemployment benefits.
According to Team Biden, it has nothing to do with the federal government (i.e., taxpayers) paying workers to sit on their couches, watch Netflix and collect unemployment checks, even as small-business owners across the country are on their knees begging workers to return now that many are vaccinated and the pandemic is winding down.
"I know there's been a lot of discussion since Friday's report that people are being paid to stay home rather than go to work," Biden said after the April jobs report was made public. "Well, we don't see much evidence of that."
To see evidence, you have to open your eyes. Just like if you want a job you have to take one.
The National Federation of Independent Business says a record 44 percent of all small-business owners have job openings they cannot fill. And according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, in some states workers can collect unemployment for up to 46 weeks.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to end those extra government payouts because they're enticing people to stay home.
And on top of trillions already spent, Biden wants to spend trillions of dollars more. Will this bring a workless utopia or long-term inflationary disaster?
I don't begrudge workers. People make decisions based on what they're offered. If the government pays them not to work, many won't work. Not all want to become entrepreneurs or work extra hours and get promoted. Some are content to just get by. And the government is making it easier right now to do that.
Jason Webb, owner of G.D. Ritzy's, a restaurant in Huntington, West Virginia, was forced to put up a sign: "MISSING -- JOB SEEKERS. IF FOUND, BRING INSIDE."
"I feel like I am competing against the enhanced unemployment benefits and the stimulus," Webb told the Herald-Dispatch. "It is making it hard to find workers when they can make so much not working."
The other morning, I stopped for breakfast with Chicago business owners, including restaurant guys, who said the same thing.
"I don't think Joe Biden ever had a job," said my friend Jimmy Banakis. "Has he ever had a job or run a business?"
Before Biden spent his life as a politician, he was briefly a public defender, gaining a small measure of fame for successfully defending an accused cow thief. But he really loved talking about being a lifeguard. During his presidential campaign he told America stories in which he was the hero, all about his leg hairs turning blond in the sun and his epic confrontation with the mythic "Corn Pop."
He's good at stories. But the one about how generous unemployment benefits don't keep people from working didn't have legs, hairy or otherwise. Biden's handlers realized this, so they reshaped the message.
"In order to receive any kind of unemployment benefit, claimants must be available and actively seeking work, and workers are not permitted to refuse suitable work and continue to receive benefits," said Jen Psaki, his press secretary.
OK, Jen, but that's just talk. Fraud in the unemployment system rose sharply during the pandemic. Biden and the Democrats want to make it last even longer.
To see evidence, you have to open your eyes. Just like if you want a job you have to take one.
The National Federation of Independent Business says a record 44 percent of all small-business owners have job openings they cannot fill. And according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, in some states workers can collect unemployment for up to 46 weeks.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to end those extra government payouts because they're enticing people to stay home.
And on top of trillions already spent, Biden wants to spend trillions of dollars more. Will this bring a workless utopia or long-term inflationary disaster?
I don't begrudge workers. People make decisions based on what they're offered. If the government pays them not to work, many won't work. Not all want to become entrepreneurs or work extra hours and get promoted. Some are content to just get by. And the government is making it easier right now to do that.
Jason Webb, owner of G.D. Ritzy's, a restaurant in Huntington, West Virginia, was forced to put up a sign: "MISSING -- JOB SEEKERS. IF FOUND, BRING INSIDE."
"I feel like I am competing against the enhanced unemployment benefits and the stimulus," Webb told the Herald-Dispatch. "It is making it hard to find workers when they can make so much not working."
The other morning, I stopped for breakfast with Chicago business owners, including restaurant guys, who said the same thing.
"I don't think Joe Biden ever had a job," said my friend Jimmy Banakis. "Has he ever had a job or run a business?"
Before Biden spent his life as a politician, he was briefly a public defender, gaining a small measure of fame for successfully defending an accused cow thief. But he really loved talking about being a lifeguard. During his presidential campaign he told America stories in which he was the hero, all about his leg hairs turning blond in the sun and his epic confrontation with the mythic "Corn Pop."
He's good at stories. But the one about how generous unemployment benefits don't keep people from working didn't have legs, hairy or otherwise. Biden's handlers realized this, so they reshaped the message.
"In order to receive any kind of unemployment benefit, claimants must be available and actively seeking work, and workers are not permitted to refuse suitable work and continue to receive benefits," said Jen Psaki, his press secretary.
OK, Jen, but that's just talk. Fraud in the unemployment system rose sharply during the pandemic. Biden and the Democrats want to make it last even longer.
Free Republic gives capitalism a bad reputation. They love “free” market forces but only when they work in their favor.
Well I know multiple people who have to settle for significantly lower wage jobs due to non compete clauses with their former employers.
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Generally unenforceable after 6 months, depending on the state. California they are illegal.
Some states ban or bar enforcement once employee is a former employee, or only allow it in the breakup of a partnership.
Some states do allow a lifetime and global ban on future employment in a certain job field.
36 to 60 million Americans are currently subject to non-compete clauses.
MAKE UP TO $20.00 PER HOUR WITH TIPS!!!
Why limit to $20? With very generous tippers, one could make UP TO 50 or 100 even.
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Same as DoorDash as the other gig delivery services. Base is $3 per delivery. Mostly you can get 2 deliveries in an hour. That’s $6 an hour. The apps “suggest” another $3 to $4 tip, but it’s not required. Some areas - like college towns don’t tend to tip at all. So typically $14/hr Maximum.
The $100 tips are unicorns. You might get them once in your life as a driver (usually around Christmas)
That’s before gas, maintenance, wear and tear on your vehicle.
With gas prices nearly double in some cases, all your income is going into the tank.
And most drivers are not financially secure enough to wait for the car-mileage deduction at the end of the year.
Well DoorDash and others *do* advertise you can make up to $440 a week (in Denver)
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to end those extra government payouts because they’re enticing people to stay home.
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Ah, the original low-wage advocates.
The pro-Chinese manufacturer and pro-Indian outsourcing and Indian H1B idiots.
The never met a job they didn’t want outsourced or an decent job they didn’t want a Indian or Mexican to take. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to end those extra government payouts because they’re enticing people to stay home.
They complained bitterly about the Trump Chinese tariffs, the Trump banning of Indian H1Bs and the Trump border restrictions.
Now they complain that Americans don’t want low-wage dead end jobs.
Notice in the article they mentioned restaurants. Who in the hell would want to work for $2.13 an hour plus tips with a chin diaper all day and dining capacity restrictions?
Only the foolish and the desperate.
Only $300 around here.
But did you QUIT or were you let go?
If they don't NEED you any more; then I should think that the ncc would become invalid.
“...email from a veterans group...”
If the email was for employment opportunities for veterans, it can be under different circumstances than with the general public. About 2.19 million military troops will retire in 2021 alone. They will be receiving retirement pay, disability pay possibly, most get 30%, and will have the option of commissary, exchange, and recreational use for the rest of their lives. That group doesn’t look at money the same way. I didn’t.
I took a job with Walmart to supplement my retirement and quit them when they treated me below my acceptable standards (adult). All the groups seeking employees on the first of your list are all high turnover. They spit people out for a couple of reasons and replace them with warm bodies. And the others with limitations are perfect for the stay at home federal funds digester.
BUT as long as the feds supplement the people who could work with enough so they don’t have to or care if they do, then they won’t. And if they do, if the physical work like at Amazon or Fedex is too great, or they don’t like the treatment at Walmart or McDonalds, they will play the game long enough to receive unemployment insurance and fed help. And they can become an employee of your tax dollars sitting in the parents basement playing video games.
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