Wisdom & Faith

they have a work history and the unemployment paid is part of their benefits. derr

they are taking their unemployment begrudgingly just like you hate your medicare and SS

 

Seems the biggest problems are political in nature.

If each generation has fewer members than the previous generation, then in a democratic form of government that means each generation won't fully be "in charge of its own affairs" so to speak until it is past its years of working and raising children. Societies will perpetually be governed by generations long past the point in the life where concerns of raising kids or adapting to the modern workforce are relevant. This can have enormous economic and social consequences.

We're already seeing this play out in the US. The Boomer generation had so few kids that they have continued to dominate the next generation at the voting booth, and the consequences are significant. Numerous forms of wealth distribution from the young to the old exist, such that children are now significantly more likely to be impoverished than seniors. Government policies spend vast sums to meet the medical and financial needs of seniors, but comparatively little to meet the child care and education needs of younger generations.

It's hard to see how society can long function while the generations still in school or the workforce are systematically having their needs largely ignored by government.

 

No, the unemployment paid is not an employee benefit. The employer pays into a state insurance pool, and the money in the pool is not earmarked for specific employees, or even for employees of specific companies.

That’s a diaper load! The slackers collecting right now could be working almost anywhere, but they choose not to because Biden & Co. are bribing them with free money.

 

And where did this myopic crap come from?

 

you can't draw on it unless you have a work history.

 

That’s a minor detail to the parasites who manipulate the system. It’s neither a lot of time nor a lot of money. They work long enough to qualify, and then seize the first opportunity to go on unemployment that happens along.

 

it's still finite, the amount of time they're on it. if they're such losers why would you want to employ them anyway?

 

Right now we're so short-handed we're ready to dig up corpses in the cemetary.

 

you must not pay enough

 

They must not want to work enough.

 

they aren't your slaves.

 

No, and I’m not theirs either . . .

We always hear you liberals whining about wealthy folks not paying their fair share, but I don’t recall you ever complaining about the slackers taking more than their fair share . . . Ever.

 

that doesn't even make sense. THEY DON'T WANT TO WORK FOR YOU

 

Of course it makes sense . . . they don’t want to work for us . . . The parasites’d rather keep us working for them!!!

 

why doesn't mopar guy have a problem keeping employees. I think we know the answer

 

I suspect keeping employees is not as easy for @mopardude as you think it is. Doubtless in my mind, he is currently struggling with how to continue to support their current standard of living as material costs place undue constraints on his business.

 

it's called the free market

 

The free market? You wouldn't know the free market if it bit off your nose and spit it back in your face!

At its most fundamental level, the free market is survival of the fittest. Something that strikes fear in the hearts of liberals . . . God forbid a liberal would have to work the skin off his fingers to survive.

 

Directly, no I am not having trouble keeping employees. Indirectly, I am. I have three subcontract crews that perform my subcontracts for me and they have to report their labor rates to me because I am not covered up in enough oversight.... Long and short is that the labor rates are dictated and they are very livable wages. They have labor show up Monday, Tuesday, sometimes Wednesday and typically disappear after that...... See, there is a generational shift here. The people that work for me are all in their 40'-50's with exception of my new man in his mid-30's. Oddly enough, my young employee is last at work and first one out the door at the end of the day. There is a new and different mindset at work these days in younger peoples minds. And younger people typically are the brute labor force. That is just the way it has been. Thing is that in recent generations we have stopped teaching work ethic and begun teaching more of a "take what you can get" mentality and our current labor woes are the current result. And until everyone begins doing without because costs and availabilities are entirely out of reach, nothing will be done about it. This is a scary place we are in.

 

So much for FD's insinuation that unmotivated workers are just a problem where I am, and not a widespread problem.

I echo all of the above sentiments MD, but one in particular.

My eldest daughter, gone now God bless her soul, informed me when she was still in high school that her teachers advised her to, and I quote word for word, "Get all you can while you can".

There was no emphasis on patience, on making near term sacrifices to ensure a fruitful future . . . no, it was about selfish instant gratification, the future be damned.

She's gone now, but a lot in her generation are still infected with this indulgent attitude, and it plagues America.