Ditch the Tie-Dye and Put On Some Work Clothes - Unemployment Benefits Ending
They say that once someone is unemployed or out of the work force for more than five years, that it is very rare that they get back into the job market, or start working again.
What if I told you that there are figures which confirm that 33% of the people who are on unemployment insurance end up getting a job within three months of those benefits ending well, it's true.
Now then, often I am looked down upon when I suggest that we need to stop the unemployment benefits past 99 weeks.
You see when I mentioned that, I get dirty looks, people say to me; "those are real people, they have real lives, and real families, and they need that income to survive.
" Yes, that's true, I grant them that debating point.
But likewise I would suggest to you that we are doing them a favor by ending their unemployment benefits, because we are getting them off their rear ends, and were getting them serious again about job seeking.
After all, why would someone get a job when they are getting a check in the mail without working, even if that check is less than what they might normally make? Once they've been unemployed for nearly 2 years, they've adjusted their lifestyle to leave within their new means, and live within the boundaries of that unemployment check they get.
If we lay down the letter of the law and put our foot down as taxpayers, and say no more, they will be forced to ditch their tie-dye shirt, put on some real work clothes, and go pound the pavement until they get an actual job.
One of the worst things we can do in a society is paying people not to produce.
That is the absolute wrong incentive, and that is the wrong way to play it.
By doing this we are making people weak, we are taking away their manhood, and we are violating the cardinals sin of giving a man a fish rather than teaching them to fish.
Shame on us, now then, we shouldn't criticize those who are taking the checks from the government, but we should criticize ourselves for making them and giving them an incentive to stay out of the job market.
We aren't doing anyone any favors, despite what my critics might have you believe.
It's not that I don't have empathy, because I surely do, it's because I have a dose of reality, and I understand the psychology and motivation of human beings.
I just wish the rest of our population would understand that as well.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
What if I told you that there are figures which confirm that 33% of the people who are on unemployment insurance end up getting a job within three months of those benefits ending well, it's true.
Now then, often I am looked down upon when I suggest that we need to stop the unemployment benefits past 99 weeks.
You see when I mentioned that, I get dirty looks, people say to me; "those are real people, they have real lives, and real families, and they need that income to survive.
" Yes, that's true, I grant them that debating point.
But likewise I would suggest to you that we are doing them a favor by ending their unemployment benefits, because we are getting them off their rear ends, and were getting them serious again about job seeking.
After all, why would someone get a job when they are getting a check in the mail without working, even if that check is less than what they might normally make? Once they've been unemployed for nearly 2 years, they've adjusted their lifestyle to leave within their new means, and live within the boundaries of that unemployment check they get.
If we lay down the letter of the law and put our foot down as taxpayers, and say no more, they will be forced to ditch their tie-dye shirt, put on some real work clothes, and go pound the pavement until they get an actual job.
One of the worst things we can do in a society is paying people not to produce.
That is the absolute wrong incentive, and that is the wrong way to play it.
By doing this we are making people weak, we are taking away their manhood, and we are violating the cardinals sin of giving a man a fish rather than teaching them to fish.
Shame on us, now then, we shouldn't criticize those who are taking the checks from the government, but we should criticize ourselves for making them and giving them an incentive to stay out of the job market.
We aren't doing anyone any favors, despite what my critics might have you believe.
It's not that I don't have empathy, because I surely do, it's because I have a dose of reality, and I understand the psychology and motivation of human beings.
I just wish the rest of our population would understand that as well.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
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