Home smoking reefer and drinking. Why work!
“No one wants to say, ‘I want to get fired and sit on my butt.’
Seriously? I would imagine there is a whole segment of the welfare population that says just this.
My part of GE was sold to the Chinese. I was long-term enough to qualify for early pension and I took it.
I would like to work part-time under the right circumstances, but I’m haven’t found it yet.
A lot of bull poop here.
People over 40 and 50 are not getting hired. Some of them are forced to live off their spouse, significant other, parent, etc.
There are a lot of
People who want to work but not part
Time at home
Depot.
I’m taking care of my children. Quite a few of my friends are taking care of their children. If we all paid each other to take care of one another’s children, we’d be in the “labor force,” but would that really help anyone but the tax collector?
Gotta love that real 23% unemployment number!
The unemployment rate during the Great Depression topped out at 25% in 1933.
I work directly with this demographic. For what it’s worth:
They are 19 - 35 and working for cash as roofers, painters, general hanyman, or low tech factory workers, drawing SSI, getting food stamps and “Obama” phones. And/or they are selling pot/cocaine for cash.
They are spending 80% of their cash on pot/cocaine/meth. Each week.
What’s left goes to fast food, child support and their probation/parole/Court payment.
They will never, ever get out of debt, have a savings, or get ahead in life.
The pot doesn’t help: Because the pro-pot/pro-drug movement has made it socially acceptable to get high at all hours of the day this often causes them to loose their job and then jump to another crappy job. They can only get crappy jobs because they refuse to stop smoking pot and/or using drugs and the good paying jobs will drug screen.
If not for the drug use, they also have records and no one wants to hire a felon - unless you are a moron and are willing to ignore a recidivism rate of up to 80%.
Eventually they will get hurt and we will pay for all of the medical care. IF they don’t get hurt they will commit a crime and we will pay for their incarceration (PDC, RSAT, Prison).
The above demographic makes up roughly 15-20% of the citizens in this and the surrounding rural counties.
Only 3 out of 25 uses alcohol, but roughly 20 of 25 smoke pot daily. 5 out of 25 use Meth more than twice a week. 3 out of 25 use cocaine more than twice per week. Basically, 22-24 out of 25 are using something whether it’s meth, cocaine, pot, alcohol, and/or prescriptions - OR all or a mix of them.
Hide your kids. Don’t use drugs.
disability for every ailment is a huge factor
http://www.iwf.org/blog/2796127/Americans-on-Disability-Skyrocket-%E2%80%93-Especially-Under-Obama
Around here, they drive from food bank to food bank using their iPhone to navigate. Once they fill their pantry, they go around a break into the homes of working people to buy their heroin or meth for the day.
Who has time to work?
Boockvar is wrong.
As I understand it, retired people are not considered unemployed by the BLS. They define labor force as the sum total of employed and unemployed people, therefore the labor force participation rate does NOT include retirees.
Anyone need any 68-69 Ford Torino/Fairlane parts or a Fender Stratocaster?
This is the other part of 0blama’s pitiful domestic legacy....most FreeStuff™, ever, for those who can, but REFUSE to work.
Now, they will be able to order their FreeStuff™ online....
USDA Announces Retailer Volunteers for SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3512144/posts