Posted on 05/19/2021 3:35:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
America has a record 8.1 million job openings.
The media call it a "labor shortage."
But it's not a labor shortage; it's an incentive shortage.
"No one wants to work," says a sign on a restaurant drive-thru speaker in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Please be patient with the staff that did show up."
I never wanted to work. I got a job because I had to support myself. That was good for me. It forced me out of my comfort zone. It made me a better person.
Had government offered me almost equal money not to work, I never would have applied.
Today, government takes away that incentive.
The American Rescue Plan, passed in March, increased unemployment payments by hundreds of dollars and extended them for up to 73 weeks. Given the cost of commuting, etc., many people find they are better off financially not working.
Denmark once offered workers five years of unemployment. Then they noticed that workers found work after exactly five years. So, Denmark cut the benefit to four years. Then most workers found jobs after four years. Now Denmark, wisely, has cut benefits in half.
Incentives matter.
America's unemployment handouts began during the Great Depression when desperate people really needed help. Still, you could collect for only 16 weeks.
Barack Obama extended unemployment benefits to up to 99 weeks.
CARTOONS | TOM STIGLICH VIEW CARTOON "There are no jobs!" people I interviewed waiting in line for benefits in New York City once told me.
But that wasn't true. There were lots of entry-level jobs within walking distance.
My staff visited 79 nearby stores. Forty said they wanted to hire. Twenty-four said they'd hire people with no experience.
People in the unemployment line also said that the government should do more to train them for jobs. But New York already offered "job training" centers, so I sent an intern out to see what they did. The first offered to help her get welfare. A second told her to apply for unemployment. Neither place suggested looking for a job.
When she insisted that she wanted work, not handouts, they directed her to yet another building. There she was told she could not receive help because she didn't have a college degree.
Finally, a fourth office offered her an interview at the sandwich chain Pret a Manger. The boss there told her she'd wasted her time going to the government Jobs Center because she could have gotten that same interview using Craigslist.
Some politicians understand that handouts encourage dependence. Sixteen states are now ending extra unemployment benefits early. Montana and Arizona replaced extra unemployment benefits with a bonus for people who find work.
Even President Joe Biden has noticed the unintended consequences of his party's benefits. "If you're ... offered a suitable job, you can't refuse that job and just keep getting unemployment," he said.
Seems more than reasonable. Yet a New York Times headline says, "Some say it presents an undue hardship."
The reporter interviewed a "Mx. San Martin, 27, who uses the pronouns they and them."
Mx. Martin wants to work with pets. They complained that "there simply weren't enough jobs that I would actually want." Restaurant work "is not in my field of interest."
Too bad.
Bad for all of us when people think they're entitled to our tax money if bureaucrats don't get them the exact job they want.
The policies Biden’s handlers are pushing are intended to get ever-growing parts of the population hooked on government checks.
Offer bonuses, increased pay and benefits. This government subsidy cannot go on much longer. Or go out of business and get real jobs.
This situation is exactly what the demoncrats were hoping to achieve with their absurd plan for universal basic income. — The Economic Shutdown of America
I don’t know what’s worse, that this country has sunk so low, or that many can’t even see how low it has sunk.
Funny how the lack of cheap dishwashers is an existential crises to Republicans but the offshoring of ENTIRE INDUSTRIES to the 3rd world get nary a glance....
The people in charge and the people managing the current state of affairs fall into two groups:
1) People who actively intend to harm our society
2) People who are useful idiots and simply do not realize that they are actively harming our society and not “doing good” at all.
Post of the day.
Fast-food and low-cost restaurant industry bitching…. Again.
Who in the hell would want to work at a degrading part-time menial labor job with no benefits? $15/ hr or not?
Since most places will only hire for up to 20 to 24 hours a week (29 is is max allowed under ObamaCare) with no fixed schedule, why bother?
They are continuing what was started under Obama.....a “transformation” of this once great nation into a communist utopia where a permanent servant class is dependent on the government.
Trump was the greatest threat to this transformation. He was not supposed to win against Hillary. He was not supposed to get the economy back on track so amazingly.
But he did and they needed to get rid of him.
The Russian Collusion was meant to slow down Trump’s deals.
The impeachments were meant to slow down Trump’s deals.
The Wuhan virus was meant to destroy Trump’s economy.
After the fraud, they have total control and will finish the transformation and put it in place permanently.
And bring in maybe a million foreigners under all visa programs to take decent paying white and blue collar jobs from Americans…
At what salary? How many hours per week? What benefits?
Under Trump, decent paying jobs were being created and companies were hiring Americans.
Under Biden, only low-wage menial labor jobs are hiring Americans
At what salary? How many hours per week? What benefits?
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We ALL know the answer to that.
Part-time menial labor work at minimum wage or slightly higher, maybe 20 to 24 hours a week, with absolutely no benefits.
Even the smallest of perks - the free employee meal once per shift is gone. Now it’s just an employee discount…
All true Republicans care about is cheap labor.
I used to work for minimum wage, and I know how that works, and honestly I can not blame the businesses or managers
I can.
I say 20 to 24, but we all know it’s closer to 6 to 12… I forgot most places will not give 8 hours as it requires a 30 minute break, plus 2 10 minute breaks. 6 hours only requires a single 10 or 15 minute break at most places.
Lucky there is a minimum wage. If many here had their way, there would be no minimum wage or unemployment compensation (as often stated)
that doesn’t surprise me.
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