Posted on 07/24/2021 9:32:58 AM PDT by rktman
Angry employers fired back at President Biden for telling a restaurant owner Wednesday night at a CNN townhall that he should raise wages to address the labor shortage.
Biden seemed to acknowledge the impact of federal unemployment benefits on the shortage, but he told the restaurant owner, John Lanni, that people aren't working in restaurants because they're considering "other opportunities" for employment.
Restaurant owners on Thursday didn't like Biden's reponse, contending it showed how little he understands about running a business and the country's labor crisis, DailyMail.com reported.
Twenty-six states have ended the federal benefits and already have seen a rise in employment. But more than 12 million people are claiming unemployment across the nation compared to 5.8 million in 2019.
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Find a video from the cnn townhall from last Tuesday and watch it. Then draw you conclusion.
This is all quite deliberate. This is their form of attaining “equity” and is socialism by default. Small business owners get squeezed and young people are paid not to work. Equality of outcome, lower standards for all.
It’s a deliberate anti-capitalist policy. This free market meddling is surely unconstitutional (?).
Restaurants just have to compete with the government paying people not to work.
For your perusal:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/07/22/part-1-entire-joe-biden-town-hall-july-21-vpx.cnn
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/07/22/part-2-entire-joe-biden-town-hall-july-21-vpx.cnn
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/07/22/part-3-entire-joe-biden-town-hall-july-21-vpx.cnn
Say, Mr. John Stratidis, quoted restraint owner in…. Greenwich Village. You didn’t happen to vote for Biden did you, you dumb bastard? I’ll bet you did given the kook community you marinate in every day. The ruinous policies of this administration were about as predictable as the dawn. Alas, rat-voting restaurant owners are unlikely reflect on that as they lock their doors for the last time.
All you’re doing is pushing the cost of such BS onto our children.
I agree, although it would have been great if more Republicans thought of younger generations when Trump was in office and approved budgets that increased the deficit to $1 trillion even before the pandemic. I do not vote for RINOS who don't have a game plan for how to get us out of debt to China and I do not re-elect Republicans who renege on their promises.
Time for the Participation Trophy crowd to crawl out of their parents’ basement and start working for a living.
Spoken like a member of the most taxpayer-subsidized generation in American history. I may be a mere Millennial but even I know Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that is running out of suckers as well as the biggest wealth redistribution scheme ever devised by government. I miss the days when the elderly were expected to be self-sufficient or at least be grateful to the younger folks supporting them in their old age. It would be great if Social Security and Medicare were made optional and folks could decide for themselves whether they beat the market return. Until then, enjoy your SS payments funded by money stolen from the young and productive.
Apparently now some coders are going to have to learn how to mine coal. Who saw that coming?
Probably nobody, because natural gas is replacing coal as the energy source of choice. All the fracking technology that the liberal greenies hate has done more to kill coal than any number of environmental protests. How's that for irony?
Until then, enjoy your SS payments funded by money stolen from the young and productive.
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The same as it has been ‘stolen’ from me since 1954.
As far as Medicaid/Medicare, have paid into it since the start and do NOT use it any way shape or form.
I agree with everything you said. It is possible to support the business community without treating them as infallible. For instance, during the pandemic the local Starbucks announced its reduced hours: 1-4 PM. Apart from a few hardcore caffeine addicts, who drinks coffee from 1-4PM? If they had to restrict their hours, why not make it 7:30-10:30 AM?
There are business owners who had some bad breaks or were driven out of business by government policies. There are also business owners who are bad at running a business, and that’s okay. We can’t all be good at everything. The problem happens when the business owners champion “the free market” and “personal responsibility” in an employer’s market, then refuse to change or take personal responsibility when the market favors employees.
Just imagine, if we had a president who had run businesses, who understood how to run a business, who understood how the economy functions. Any chance such an individual could become president????
Yeah, that would be great. Unfortunately it's been decades since we had a president who understood anything about the economy. The last guy talked a good game, but ultimately had no problem running up the deficit to $1 trillion before the first COVID case reached American shores. I guess when you've always walked away from debts by declaring bankruptcy on your businesses it seems natural to do the same thing when running a country.
The difference you will get back what you paid into it, more or less. Our deficit currently stands at $28.5 trillion. If you think SS will still be there when I hit retirement age in 2055 (assuming they haven’t raised the age by then) I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
And lean way left when it goes up, I have heard.
I also remember at 30 sitting around ‘biatching’ about how there would be no money when ‘we’ were ‘due’ ours.
I am 82 so get a nice piece of change etc etc etc
Of course, the ‘inventors’ of the Ponzi scheme figured those that would REALLY need it would be alive at 65 anyway...
oh, I did wait till I turned 70 to start collecting....
make that WOULDN’T really need etc
Yup. And a guy who’s been getting a government check for almost fifty years.
Spoken by an ignorant person who hasn't done the math. I did the math and compared what I contributed to SS over the 46 years that I paid into it. I paid a little over $146,000 into the SS fund. I did include the matching employers' contributions as those would have been mine otherwise. If you take an average balance of $73,000 and compound it at 4% (far too low for most of my working years), given what I am being paid and assuming COLA adjustments, I will breakeven if I manage to live to the age of 137. You, sir, are an ignorant twit.
I did the math and compared what I contributed to SS over the 46 years that I paid into it. I paid a little over $146,000 into the SS fund. I did include the matching employers' contributions as those would have been mine otherwise. If you take an average balance of $73,000 and compound it at 4% (far too low for most of my working years), given what I am being paid and assuming COLA adjustments, I will breakeven if I manage to live to the age of 137.
The fact that money was stolen from you during your working years to pay off the previous generations does not negate the fact the current SS payments are stolen from those currently working. That is how a Ponzi scheme works. The difference is you are getting some, if not all, of your money back whereas I know SS will not exist by the time I am old enough to retire.
when there are jobs available there is NO reason to pay people not to work.
And in those Red states where the governors have ended the supplimental unemployment payment? Are their restaurants not having any problems attracting employees?
My local garage wants $400 to replace lower ball joint on my old Mustang!! That's outrageous, sO I either pay or don;t drive the car because is failed GOVERNMENT inspection. Same thing. My OPINION means nothing in a free market. Cash on the barrel head is what talks.
Bottom line: raise wages and you will get employees.
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