WASHINGTON, DC, Nov 18 — It’s not unusual for an illness to have side effects, but the side effect of the COVID pandemic has had an unforeseen side effect on the American economy. In its latest report, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us that a record 4.4 million workers quit their jobs in September. The Labor Department also reports that, at the same time, 10.4 million available jobs remained unfilled. It’s beginning to look like the workforce is on strike.
As one worker told the New York Times, she left her job last year to care for her kids. “So much of how I saw myself was tied up in what I did for a living — it was a huge adjustment to all of a sudden not be doing that all the time. But once I made that adjustment, it also became apparent that there were also benefits to having that work-life balance.”
The cost of living went down during the pandemic due in part to the stimulus bucks provided by the government, as well as the initiation of programs to ease mortgage payment and student loan paybacks and a freeze on evictions. The Times also noted that even the wealthier segment of the population saved; they didn’t go out to eat, passed up vacation opportunities, and benefited from a major uptick in stock prices.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration appears to be using the labor shortage to promote the socialist elements of the Democrats’ massive Bring Back Better spending legislation. During an interview, last week on MSNBC’s Morning Joe talk show Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that a lack of access to affordable childcare is responsible for the shortage. It prompted the radio show’s co-host Mika Brzezinski to challenge the notion: “I still don’t understand. I mean, if you’re telling me that Build Back Better will bring people back to work because of much-needed and long-needed issues like childcare and pre-K, that still doesn’t explain why people aren’t coming to work today.”
A Real Clear Politics report of that interview attracted dozens of comments from readers. One particularly angry reader had this to say: “The Federal Government has no business (nor constitutional authority) to provide nor pay for daycare. If you can’t afford kids, don’t have them. If you don’t have family to help you with kids, don’t have them. There’s plenty of free and reduced costs daycare (like churches) that are available, and parents need to learn to be responsible and self-sufficient.”
In a recent interview with Fox News, Senator Mike Lee [R-UT] pointed out that “Work is more than a source of income; it’s fundamental to our ability to contribute and thrive. Congress must stop making policy decisions that discourage a return to work—we need workers’ contributions now more than ever.”
A study conducted by the Joint Economic Committee Republicans confirms that it’s government policies that are keeping more and more from going back to work. The report shows that more and more Americans are receiving government assistance and many more anticipate that the socialist Biden government will up the ante. It also reveals that government giveaways are impairing a much-needed post-pandemic back-to-work movement.
In conclusion, the analysis found that “Reconnecting inactive workers to the labor force will require careful consideration of poorly-designed federal benefits, wide-ranging regulations that exclude would-be workers from the labor market, and labor laws that restrict employee freedoms to work on their own terms. Policymakers must not forget that work can provide more than a paycheck; it can offer self-respect, a chance to thrive through personal achievements, and an opportunity to deepen community ties that build the foundation for robust social capital and a strong civil society. By revitalizing connections to work, we simultaneously strengthen families, communities, and civil society.”
Why work when it’s all “free”?! Biden and his fellow libs are not our friends. Oh, by the way… nothing’s free if the guv’ment’s “giving” it away. There’s most definitely strings and all kinds of other stuff attached to their mandates, intentions, etc.
IMHO
FJB! LET’S GO BRANDON!
MAGA2024! TRUMP2024!
Oh yeah and then there’s the… get fired if you don’t get the jab…. that’s really helping. Smdh
Many in the US have gotten lazy and want the government to support them. The problem is the rest of us have to pay for your laziness. I would think that this would embaress them but I’m sure it will not.
You all realize this is by design. They are not going to happy until the middle class is gone, along with all small businesses.
Again the author misses the point completely. The policies around being implemented, in the areas of stay at home subsidies and refundable tax credits, are specifically designed to promote wide-scale government dependence and a complete distain for work in the private sector. Starving the private sector of needed labor stunts economic growth and promotes societal stagnation. Docile, compliant sheep sitting at home on the couch and waiting for the next government check to be credited to their account is the goal to ensuring the government has total control of virtually everything with ZERO resistance from the public.
Biden doesn’t care if people lose their jobs to his illegal mandate or if people are not working. His plan is to give a new amnesty provision to illegals by giving them those vacant jobs! A plan by design, something I saw in my political mail a few weeks ago, and a GOP Senator made that announcement as well. The Build Back Better Plan is fundamentally geared only to minorities and illegals, so shame on all the RINOS, more than we’d like to count, who voted for these democrat socialists bills without reading it!
The DEMs are just buying votes. They do NOT care about helping the American people.
The DEMs and our out of touch crazy President Biden who are disgusting………..
Putting up the $600+ a week in unemployment started the trend in not working to start sloping downwards fast. Why work when you can make more on unemployment. Then the stimulus checks came out. Rent/mortgage abatement came along at the same time. So now we’re created a huge mass of ex-workers who don’t and won’t want to work. I’m seeing to be more prevalent in blue state vs red. So now we got millions who are blindly letting the government lead them around by the nose, while those still working are carrying the burden, Even with letting all the illegal immigrants in I highly doubt you have doctors, nurses, skilled professional workers, that can step in and take over immediately the jobs being opened up due to the jab mandate and those who have left their job due to it. So the federal government is well on their way of turning us into a socialist country that the current administration has strived for over the years. But unfortunately for them, #44 thwarted their efforts. So they regrouped and came back even stronger with blantant election fixes, increased prosecution of #45 that was unwarranted, and so on. We need to stand up and start taking our country back before it is too late. Let’s Go Brandon!
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.”
Possibly by Alexis de Tocqueville and/or Alexander Frazer Tytler
“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
The more commonly known possible quote by Ben Franklin
END the checks
Downsize taxes & regulations for Small Business alone
In my community in the Palm Springs area, many of the mom and pop businesses are gone. They couldn’t financially sustain the open/close open/close cycles we went through for over a year. And now businesses are offering a reward of a check if you will just come in and apply for a job, and another monetary reward if you take the job. It’s just ridiculous. BUT, I don’t put all the blame on the workers, if you can stay home and take care of your family and bring home more money than when you worked, you would have to be pretty dumb not to do it. The Dems are paying more for minimum wage workers to stay home, than go to work, and small businesses can’t compete. God in heaven help us!!
Bottom Line – The Democrats and the unbelievably out of touch RINOS will eventually succeed at ruining your country, your way of life, and your kids’ future. They actually think they are the ushers of some new aged utopia. That is how damaged their synapses fire within their delusional and illogical little brain housing groups. There is a virus out there that actually kills everything it comes into contact with, its called Liberalism.
It is time to stop ALL welfare – Get back to Work!
Lets say working a five day week is like being able to run five miles. Anyone who stops running for many months cannot go out and run five miles. They must start from scratch, albeit with muscle memory. Unemployed people start sleeping in, watching more boob tube, put on weight, drink more beer etc. Thats the idea here. Communism ruins human beings. The treason party wants ruined human beings.
This is designed to make citizens dependent on government & why is this being done? If you love America and your freedoms, you must work and produce in order to keep it. Read History books—- and that will give you an idea of what is happening.
How can any country give away money —- when it is borrowed debt money —-and not money that is taken in from taxes …..
But of course! It is just one piece of the agenda to put as many people as possible on the dole and dependent on government for every necessity. Why go back to work?…..your income is set, your rent, utilities, food, et.al are subsidized …..so sit on your duff, let your brain turn to mush and follow the lead like one of Pavlov’s dogs. We don’t need this……in any way, shape or form.
Kevin McCarthy took house floor for 8 1/2-hours Thursday & babbled about everything possible so that a vote on spending bill was delayed until today??? I am not impressed with Republicans pulling this immature stunt & in my opinion it will still pass house and go to Senate. The Senate will decide the fate of this 2100-page bill & not the time wasted by all the people that had to put up with McCarrambling on and on and on………….. Washington: Read the book on how Non-Partisan is the way to run America.
Talk about shooting yourself in both feet: 4.4 million workers no longer generating in come (which is taxed) nor participating in Social Security-Medicare programs (no revenue to the government. Do the Dems. think before they act? apparently not. There will be a lot for Republicans to clean up
This is the epitome of wealth redistribution (socialism/communism). The “government giveaways” is OUR money. The government produces nothing (other than problems for it’s tax paying citizens). The rest is money that it prints out of thin air, backed by nothing. THAT is a recipe for rampant inflation. biden-flation isn’t transatory and is only going to get much, MUCH worse. If this next bill passes in the Senate, the U.S. economy will be destroyed…quite possibly irreparably. But hey…it’s all part of the plan.
The last time I checked there were 87 federal welfare programs, EVERY ONE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. these “programs” must end now because they have destroyed American family values. 75% of all births are illegitimate (non married). Our politicians did this. It’s time to hold them accountable for destroying our once precious values of putting our women on a pedestal and protecting our new born kids. What a tragedy.
When people are being paid more for sitting at home on their butts than they could make by working why should they want to go back work? It’s just another strategy being used by our government to gain more control over ‘We the People’!
Considering how discriminatory are these welfare benefit programs that don’t help those who really need the program, I have had a negative attitude for them. Yes, we need better childcare programs but not federally funded but corporation funded out of their shareholders profit share. If they are talking EQUITY, stop and realize that it takes two ADULT individual to create a family household setting with both sharing equal responsibility not deposits only. Plus they need to stop stealing money by overtaxation from those of us who actually earn a living working.
It’s the Democrats plan to let Americans bleed out so they can control them!! Trump/Desantis 2024????
Biden wants jobs to disappear which is one reason small businesses will be taxed so that people have to get on welfare and be dependent on the government and that blankety-blank communist Omararova would see to it if confirmed. We had a congressman on the intelligence committee sleeping with a Chinese so why not a communist in charge of the money. Or for that matter why not a refugee in charge of Homeland Defence and the southern border.
The grand communist ( D ) agenda to help bring this nation to it’s knees.
“American Marxism” by Mark Levin. And, as Ayn Rand said so prophetically back in the 50’s; “There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: Communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism — by vote.
It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”
To put it succinctly: Socialism is the bait: Communism is the hook. The really sad and lamentable fact is that far more Americans, for to many decades, have spent their lives pursuing the American dream and not watching for the roaches that scurry to shadows in the light of truth.
IF you have paid attention for the last several years, what is the main issue that’s stood in the way of the budding commies? The thorn these treasonous cowards are so maniacal to destroy?…Our Second Amendment…In lockstep with that goal has been the deliberate dumbing down of our criminal justice system…part of the plan. As a good friend opined: “Predators are hesitant to attack armed prey.” The first thing wannabe dictators do is DISARM THE SHEEP…and loose the predators.
I am praying daily that it isn’t too late to take back our Constitutional Republic….there seems to be a few “cracks”appearing in the lefties dream to rule the world…lets be diligent in going after these traitors by phone, e-mail, snail mail or personal visits.
A question to ponder: how many lists are you on? FBI? ATF? DHS? The local sheriff’s dept.? have you been classified as an enemy of the state yet? Has the FBI visited you at your work place for a ‘friendly chat’? If all the answers are no…why? These agencies are to serve the people…not the other way around…but……I digress.
George Bush Sr. when he was elected president some years ago opined: “We must usher in the New World Order.” I watched that speech. At the time I was a typical American and didn’t really understand that statement until a few years ago. The tide is turning blood red, our blood, what’s happening in our nation is not going to be solved on comment pages or neighborhood chats or on a break next summer. The battle must be taken to the door of congress, state and national….but again, maybe it’s already over…you decide.
If you are in the battle, then by all means use the comment pages to encourage others to “take up arms”….figuratively speaking….We are a REPUBLIC, not a “democracy.”
God bless and move forward…
Remember … this is a Joe Hidin’ Biden Democrap Administration, and its driving agenda is do what is best for the welfare of the Democrap Party, particularly its hierarchy, and lie about it to the Media so they will know how to cover it up for them.
Remember … inflation is a political way of taxing in disguise. And people in a marketing or sales position must pass that tax along to the consumer to maintain profit and to some degree growth. That’s just sound economics.
Looks like “1984” (G. Orwell) has arrived about 38 years or so late!!
The latest BBB bill wants to allow anyone that wants 4-weeks family leave to take it —-and I guess govt. must plan on paying for this. This is major hit to business and expecially to small businesses with 10-30 employees —–as one person off is a big hole in operation. This should be up to employee/company to decide and govt. should not be mandating more time off for employess.
Why would anyone work when ol’ slo’ joe’s handing out the farm and all of the money in the cookie jar. Ol’ slo’ joe’s not our friend. He’s here to bankrupt our country, destroy our energy independence and jack up our taxes while destroying the very fabric of our nation.
FJB! LET’S GO BRANDON!
MAGA2024! TRUMP2024!
GOODBYE America!!!!! HELLO SOCIALISM!!!
Belonging to a church and having a relationship with Christ will do much to strengthen a person. If you identity is through your work you are in serious trouble. Work changes all of the time. Unless you own the company you have zero reassurances that you will feel complete from day to day. saying you have a work life balance can not happen if your work defines you!
BBB=Better Before Biden! Now that’s a t-shirt I would buy.
The article cited a female who said quitting her job to stay home to take care of her kids gave her work life balance? What work? The taxpayers work to9 give her a life of balance and unearned stuff? Where’s our life balance.? Too many people work 2-3 jobs to pay for the irresponsible choices others make and their carefree/couldn’t care less lifestyles
Looks like the Democraps are trying to politically engineer a 1930’s type depression. And of course they will blame it on any and every on except the Democrap Party. LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR … the future collapse of the economy lays squarely on the shoulders of the Democraps. And it is intended to be that way to make it easier to slide the USA governance closer to pure Communism.
Just shut up and work harder. Get a second job. Try to get weekend overtime.
Our job is to work harder to take care of the loafers. Allow a homeless, jobless person
to move in with you. Get it ?
Here’s the deal. As soon as we work hard enough to pay for all the world’s population to have what we have, we can go back to doing things for ourselves. But not until then. If you have more than
the poorest, you’re a capitalist pig. SOCIALISM FOREVER !!!
Those of your sending your children to good schools and encouraging them to do well while taking
math and science so they can attend a top-notch college. What’s wrong with you. Tell them the
govt will take care of them.
This is political insanity unless grooming for Communism is intended to be strengthened.
What life balance. FROM the sweat off the backs of the working people, you take their money.
Give me a break. GO BACK TO WORK ………………………