Biden’s Job-Repellent Policies Punish Workers and Businesses

Will a third dismal jobs report finally cause President Joe Biden and the Democrats to realize the economic disaster they’ve created?

The jobs report released last week revealed that employers hired 100,000 fewer workers than expected in May. April was even worse: Unemployment spiked as the number of new hires missed the mark by more than 700,000.

This hiring problem isn't for lack of jobs. Nearly half of America’s business owners have available positions they’re trying to fill. They just can’t fill them—and Joe Biden is to blame.

Back in March, Democrats in Congress passed and Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that pays jobless workers an extra $300 each week. It nearly doubles the amount the average unemployed worker already receives from state unemployment programs.

No wonder unemployment is soaring and businesses are suffering. Biden is paying jobless workers more to sit at home than they’d earn working full-time. But the Democrats are denying the proof right under their noses that their policies created this hiring crisis.

And the proof goes beyond just the jobs numbers. Businesses across the country are taking extraordinary steps to break down the barriers Biden built up to stop them from hiring.

For starters, they’re boosting wages to attract new workers and keep current ones. Some companies are offering signing bonuses of up to $2,500 to people who simply accept a job with them. Others are giving current employees hundreds of dollars for referring people to apply for open positions.

For a good dose of irony, look to Michigan, where restaurants and hotels are begging the state to give them federal stimulus funding so they can use it to offer hiring bonuses to new recruits. They’re trying to use Biden’s “American Rescue Plan” to combat the jobs disaster Biden’s policies have imposed on them.

In the words of one small business owner from New Jersey, “It’s impossible to get help right now. … If they keep giving these extra benefits, there is no reason for people to get out and work.” The Democrats are looking everywhere but the mirror to blame for their failure. Some are even blaming companies—countless of which have struggled to stay afloat after a year of shutdowns—for not paying workers more.

The evidence is clear that Biden’s payouts are holding workers, businesses, and America back. The good news is that Republican governors are acting swiftly to undo the damage. Twenty-five Republican-led states have shut off his work-discouraging giveaways before they’re set to end in September.

Even some state Democrats have felt enough heat from businesses that they’re starting to follow the GOP’s lead. In North Carolina, Democrat Governor Roy Cooper (D-NC) issued an executive order requiring unemployed workers to prove they’re looking for work before they receive extra cash from Biden. And he may soon face a decision to veto or sign a bill that would stop the extra benefits altogether.

It seems that the coronavirus and trillions of dollars spent in federal aid are what it takes to relearn the lessons of 1990’s-era welfare reform: Paying people not to work results in fewer jobs.

It is time to end Biden’s job-killing policies, for the good of workers and families. The pandemic is subsiding, Americans are aching to get back to normal, and the businesses that can lead the way back are ready to roar. But they can’t do that if they don’t have workers.

Predictably, some Democrats want to make the Biden giveaways permanent and even make the handouts more generous. This, of course, should be rejected. The longer workers stay unemployed, the harder it is for them to get a job in the future, and the longer they’ll depend on the government for their basic needs. Not only do they miss out on the dignity that comes with hard work; they lose skills they’ve already built up and face higher risks of physical illness, mental breakdown, and poverty.

We’re less than one month away from what could be another disappointing jobs report. It’s time for the Democrats to face the facts. Their anti-recovery economic agenda only leads to fewer people working and more government dependency. That’s bad news for America’s economy and businesses. But it’s even worse news for America’s workers.

You have to put the blame where it belongs.
Joe biteme is not the problem.
Here is the problem.
Business owner, “Why won’t anyone work for me?”.
Employees, “Because you treat us like shit and pay crap for wages”.

This shift the blame to biteme comes directly from the chamber of commerce.
Or, to be more specific, the bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN’Ts.

Pay a fair wage, and treat your people as if the success of your business depends upon them, and people will be lining up to work for you.

This is just another ploy to get more illegals to “Do the jobs that Americans won’t do”.

We see you. And thank you to President Trump for exposing these people for who they are.

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This just anecdotal, but the jobs I see around here are in retail and in the food industry. One fast food chain is offering a $500 sign on bonus. I also see more older people working in fast food places. I spoke to one manager who is really worried about the kind of people applying now that they may lose the extra money. Most do not really want to work, have conditions on accepting a job and have not worked for nearly a year and a half. In other words the people motivated to work, worked through the pandemic. Essentially we have created a generation of workers in their twenties who are unskilled or lack a work history.

Skilled labor is a horse of a different color. The shop where my truck is being rebuilt cannot find skilled workers so the owner took on two skilled Mexican’s. He farms his engines out to a garage that also employs Mexican mechanics. That shop has been more reliable and do better work and are generally on time. So how did we get to the point that mechanics trained outside the USA are providing better quality, at least in this one case. It is one thing to say we need more people trained in the trades it is another to find people willing to work hard and provide quality work.

Dude..
I have worked for people that paid good wages and treated their people as I described.
Those companies are still in business..
I have worked for crap wages and been treated like shit...
We used to call them 89 day shops, because no one made 90 days.
Most of those places went out of business long ago.
This is just good business practice, and capitalism at it’s finest.

Just between us, I can’t stand unions. Their very nature prohibits this...

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