Posted on 10/22/2021 7:26:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
When Utah joined at least 25 other states in cutting off unemployed residents from federal jobless benefits early last summer, many Republicans, including Sen. Mitt Romney, thought it would drive people back to work.
By Labor Day, millions of laid-off workers nationwide saw their benefits slashed when pandemic-era programs expired, but anecdotes of labor shortages persist. Plus, the number of workers quitting their job has reached near record-highs for the past five months. So, Insider caught up with Romney, whose state was one of the first to leave enhanced unemployment benefits behind, to see what he thinks is driving the current labor crunches.
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I thought Mitt used to put people out of work by destroying their companies.
America has killed off at least 60 million workers since Roe v. Wade. The oldest of them would be 48 years old this year — right in the prime earning years for most industries.
Everywhere I go, I see help wanted signs out. That must be because Xo Xidung is fixing the economy.
Everywhere here too. And the signs are very big. Business owners are desperate. My question: they’ve cut off the checks, correct? How are these people living, eating, paying bills, etc?
The three reasons: childcare, savings, and rethinking work.
Another failed “conservative” remedy; take money from working people and repurpose it in a $trillion dollar infrastructure bill to be used as payola for useless Establishment pet projects. The next time Romney is right about anything will be his first time.
I’m looking forward to a “Romney shortage.”
If they can't evict renters, the utilities won't be turned off.
Mitt has been awfully quiet lately.
I would have thought he would have an opinion about this monstrous multi trillion dollar budget Nancy wants to push through without discussion or disclosure.
There are two lines to get into :
1) One says FREE STUFF, until it runs out.
2) The other says AS MUCH AS YOU WANT, but you have to work for it.
100%
I can’t stand RINO Romney either, but what I hate even more than RINO’s are lies. Blackrock
Is one of the companies that buys up viable businesses, mainly in small rural towns, then moves them to a big city leaving the town crushed with no jobs. Bain capital on the other hand bought already struggling companies in an effort to save those companies and it’s jobs, it didn’t always work out of course but that’s the difference.
One other thing, why would a Conservative repeat leftist lies? What other leftist shibboleths and lies are you going to repeat. One thing all true MAGA Conservatives should seek to avoid is becoming dishonest like the left is.
Paraphrased for those who don’t want to give the click:
- Child care (tax yourself and others to pay for another person to raise your kids)
- Too much savings (must impoverish everyone to drive them into work)
- Those darn free people acting as if remote and flexible work, which got more done for them and for their employers, was going to be permitted. Get back in your cube, serf!
Out in the real world I see the nation going John Galt, increasingly refusing to play the whore to the insane would-be rulers who want to shove things in our bodies, and realizing that these same power brokers have turned the American dream into a game only they can win.
What isn't said in these stories is that the vast majority of those workers who quit their jobs did so in order to move to a higher-paying job.
So many companies are offering hiring bonuses to net hires, but nothing to their existing workforce, so the rebuffed workers are quitting and going elsewhere to collect the bonuses.
Research shows contact with death and illness causes humans to step back and ask existential questions about what gives them purpose, or brings happiness.
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That is true. Great thinkers do ask that question. It is a worthy question.
But be careful with the answer..........................
Look who’s chiming in. A guy who never worked a day in his life.
When Utah joined at least 25 other states in cutting off unemployed residents from federal jobless benefits early last summer, many Republicans, including Sen. Mitt Romney, thought it would drive people back to work.
Let me guess -- not enough illegal immigration? Partisan Media Shills alert.
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There a large number of issues here.
Here are the issues that I can think of. I am sure others can come up with additional ones
Aging workforce.
Lots of people pulled the trigger during Covid and retired. We have an inverted age pyramid. More older people at the top fewer younger people entering the workforce
Spouses leaving the work force.
Lot of families, due to covid, have re-assessed the two income family model. Covid forced them to make adjustments. They decided now that the positive gains of having 1 parent at home off sets the 2nd income .
End of the 2 job economy.
I think people would be surprised how many workers work multiple jobs. So a tight labor market and growing opportunities at their primary job encourage them to quit their 2nd job
The rise of the gig economy.
Covid forced a lot of people into using home delivery services. 10s of millions of them found they liked using them. Companies were forced to look at jobs to decide what can be done at home. It be interesting study to find out how many workers left the work force to do gig work or work at home.
Worker burn out
After dragging the economy forward for 19 months at a frantic pace while a large segment of the population coasted good workers are burning out. The mandatory OT, the stress, seeing what they worked so hard to build buying less and less they are throwing in the towel. They saying “Maybe I will not makes as much money but I will enjoy my life more.
Excessive Government handouts
I believe this is overstated since the unemployment benefits were scaled back without a large jump in people returning to work. But being over stated does not mean they do not have an impact. Raising the food stamp monthly benefit and the increase in the Earned Income Tax credit are having an impact
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