KILL THE BILL
Hell!....Lets all just quit work and collect unemployment forever!...Oh!...wait!....
Why dont they just get it over with and extend it til the day the recipient dies?
Someone tell me why I bother to keep working.
“Unemployment benefits extension introduced in House”
A better headline would have been: “Unemployment extension introduced in House”, because that’s what it will do.
If you pay someone to not work, guess what?
Or the more creative ones will work on the side and still collect unemployment.
How come none of our enterprising reporters have done an in-depth investigation of this?
I’m in the employment business and I talk to these people every day. We call them and tell them about job openings, which they often refuse. They say: “Why should I take a job for $12/hour when I’m getting $10/hour on unemployment?” Well...umm...good question. And many of them have another job - painting, landscaping, waiting tables - getting paid cash under the table. They won’t even take a $15/hour job. Don’t worry about benefits, the gov’t has them covered. And food stamps, and help with their heating bills, and on and on.
I’ve worked for several employment agencies and I can tell you that recruiters don’t report people who turn down job interviews. It would required mounds of paperwork, and most recruiters just don’t have the time. Even if they wanted to they wouldn’t know how. Agencies should have a hotline number to call - how bout 1-800-FREELOADER.
If we cut off unemployment benefits, many of these people will find a job. Guaranteed. If it’s 52 weeks unemployment they’ll find a job week 53. If it’s 99 weeks unemployment they’ll find a job week 100. Sorry but our country just can’t afford to spend three hundred BILLION dollars and have nothing to show for it. That’s about a thousand bucks for every person in the country. So my family ponies up five grand. So does yours.
I know there are people who legitimately need help. But it’s time to end the free rides. We can’t afford it any more.
Too many Americans have a needle in their arm called ‘the Government’.
I am sure they will pass this so it will be the evil, hate mongering Republicans that get blamed for ending unemployment.