Posted on 05/10/2021 11:33:49 PM PDT by knighthawk
The governor of South Carolina said Monday that federal unemployment programs providing an extra $300 to jobless residents 'puts us right on the road to socialism'.
Republican Henry McMaster announced on Thursday that his state will opt out of the coronavirus pandemic assistance programs beginning June 30.
He told Tucker Carlson on Monday that his state is experiencing a labor shortage as a result of the boosts. That came after experts revealed that people making $32,000 before COVID could now earn more by staying at home.
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And he’s just now figured it out? I’m living on Social Security and a Military Pension and they get paid almost double what I’m getting!
Oh, no! Service businesses are losing those 30-year-old fat boys with their muffin tops and skinny jeans! ;D
The road? No, actually it’s more like the freeway.
I’ve been trying to find a way out of our national downward spiral for awhile and even though I believe the problem and solution are spiritual we’re not going to agree to the specifics before it’s far too late, if ever.
We live in the richest, most powerful civilization in human history. Not only that but we are citizens of the richest, most powerful nation in that civilization and the benefits of citizenship are not reaching the majority of us. I think part of that is due to the bizarre way we look at citizenship in the first place, we are stockholders not dependents. Every one of us is “all in” on investing in the success of this business. We invest our lives and our children and the return on that ultimate investment for the overwhelming majority is despicable to the point of being demonic.
Our cities, healthcare and education systems, our basic infrastructure across the board are all a disgrace. Not only is there no excuse for it, there’s not even a reason for it. Well, not a good reason. The monsters who insist on running generations of Americans through school systems that offer zero educational benefits are digging their own graves right along with the rest of us. The more energy we all pour into the anxiety and panic over basic needs like medical care, housing and food the less energy there is for production.
If we ARE capitalists we should start acting like it across the board. There should be dividends for investment in the success of the nation based on national performance. That used to be provided by good schools, decent medical services, public safety, good neighborhoods and clean cities; what we used to call the American Dream. We were more than the Land of Opportunity, an American citizen who did his part lived a life that was the envy of the world.
Entire segments of industry (food service, retail and cubicle farms, I’m looking at you) that are no longer viable need to be overhauled or eliminated as we know them. Millions of Americans are working in conditions that are nothing other than soul destroying and that is a massive danger to all of us. The cost in human capital is a disaster.
Instead of compounding the best our system has to offer we’ve inflated every possible negative consequence and made them the norm.
And I think this is a very Jordan Peterson type principle: We need to fix our own mess before we try to fix the rest of the world.
We are living in a bread and circuses nightmare where the bread is mouldy and the circus is, well, a circus. It’s not right, it’s wrong and it’s stupid. So it’s past time to reconsider our approach, if someone can receive more by staying home than working then maybe those jobs aren’t worth doing and need to be eliminated. MAYBE if someone is content to stay at home we don’t want them in the workforce to begin with. After all they’ve been educated to the point of imbecility. We’ve reached the point where spending several hours of a day at a job we don’t particularly enjoy because there’s something worth getting out of it no longer motivates us.
Perhaps if we had an education system that provided knowledge worth having, that would open horizons beyond video games, sports and movies, we’d have a citizenry motivated to live lives worth living. But we don’t.
If you were making $15 an hour in South Carolina then your unemployment check would be roughly $150 a week, $450 with the federal supplement. That's $1950 a month. So your Social Security and pension are $975 a month?
Also SJW: "Hey, BurgerBob is closed. WTF? Oh well, let's go to Mickey Ds I guess."
The headline makes it sound like the governor is complaining about a program not in use in his state - when the article does point out that it is being dropped going forward.
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