[entropy12]

Who would want to drag their butt to work every morning for $4000 additional income in a year? I don't blame the workers choosing to collect unemployment checks. I blame the law-makers.

[hanamizu]

My last year of teaching I faced a similar situation. Doing the math, I figured I was making an extra $100 a month by going to work over what my pension would be. Unlike many, I wan’t ‘sick of teaching’, but it made no financial sense to go to work for an extra $100/month.

And as a plus, if a sub a couple of days a month, I make up the difference.

[usconservative]

As a resident of HELLINOIS who's worked 55-60 hour weeks all the way through the pandemic with NO VACATION TIME ALLOWED, this infuriates the P*SS out of me.

F*** this state!

[nomorelurker]

With those numbers I don’t blame the workers either.

[Gene Eric]

>> I don’t blame the workers choosing to collect unemployment checks

I will. They can go to Hell.

[Prince of Space]

Most families depend on two incomes now in order to provide for a decent lifestyle. I blame Congress for raising our taxes and the women’s movement for telling women they had to have a career if they wanted to be “fulfilled.” They worked in tandem and I’m starting to think it wasn’t a coincidence.

[SamAdams76]

Who would want to drag their butt to work every morning for $4000 additional income in a year?

I'm thinking any person with a shred of self-respect and decency.

I've been working since I was 14 years old. I do not appreciate able-bodied people sitting home on the dole and relaxing, sponging off of my hard work.

[ETCM]

What I posted from the WSJ in 2019:

The Truth About Income Inequality
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3791433/posts

With few exceptions, poverty in the USA doesn’t exist. The government pays the “poor” enough to make them middle class. Work harder slaves, the “poor” are depending on you! Never mind they live in a house like yours, drive a nicer car than you, have the latest iPhone and wear $200 sneakers!

[Kickass Conservative]

I must be missing something.

When you collect Unemployment you are supposed to be looking for work. You can’t “voluntarily” collect Unemployment because you just don’t want to work, right?

Unemployment is not available to those who were Fired for cause from their Jobs. It is for People who were laid off due to no fault of their own, AKA the Kung Flu shutdowns.

Nowadays it sounds like you can just decide that Working for
a living isn’t for you without suffering any negative financial implications. Man, is America great or what?

[HypatiaTaught]

All the Blue States are doing this to break/destroy American small businesses.

Well at least all the small businesses in Blue States.

America seems to be running on the legs of RED STATES only.

Blue States are grifters.

[CPT Clay]

bump

[central_va]

Why aren’t wages shooting up through the roof?