Caped crusaders
How can we piss away more of the taxpayers money? I know, we will gives away superhero capes
So, instead of spending it on roads, infrastructure, or even on sanitation, we (and I say we, because we all pay for stupidity like this) buy capes?
Well, DUH! why would you work at a job making 300 a week, when you can sit at home for over a year making 300 a week, tack on food stamps, WIC, housing, and the numerous other ABC programs and unemployment sounds like a good career choice.
This next statement could only be made by a brain dead dyed in the wool government employee...
That last statement is what is wrong with the system. When government employees don't even blink at spending what would be considered a very good annual salary on some half baked idea with no oversight, we are in big trouble. Not only that, but the fact that the money was unrestricted as to how they could spend it lends itself to fraud, and waste. We could probably cut a Billion from the budget today by removing all unrestricted monies from the various departments.
Secondly, I firmly believe that as long as you pay someone a livable (albeit barely, but still livable) wage to do nothing, they have no incentive to change that situation.
A couple of things should happen with unemployment. First, after the first two weeks, they should have to provide a minimum of 20 hours community service every week until employed, but I believe that if you are taking ANY public assistance, you should have to do weekly community service to keep getting it. Second, I say we need to bring back apprenticeship programs. Get rid of these stupid job training programs and pick up the tab on some one's salary for the first three months while they are trained for their new job. This will get many of them back into the workforce and they will meet the need of the companies instead of some overpriced generic job training that meets almost no need except for the governments to throw our money away. Finally, you should only be able to draw a specified amount of unemployment during your lifetime. One year in every seven year cycle for example. After that, it is determined that you are a worthless piece of crap trying to game the system and don't need anymore help. My thinking, though, is that if you implemented my first idea, about 80% of the people on unemployment would be working within a month.
ORLANDO -- Need a job? A government-supported local program wants to help, or at least make you feel like a superhero until you get one.
Workforce Central Florida is spending $73,000 on a campaign that includes a cartoon cut-out and capes. They are handing out 6,000 capes at a price tag of more than $14,000.
So, instead of spending it on roads, infrastructure, or even on sanitation, we (and I say we, because we all pay for stupidity like this) buy capes?
They say even though unemployment remains high, there are businesses who need employees, but instead the unemployed are sitting at home.
Well, DUH! why would you work at a job making 300 a week, when you can sit at home for over a year making 300 a week, tack on food stamps, WIC, housing, and the numerous other ABC programs and unemployment sounds like a good career choice.
This next statement could only be made by a brain dead dyed in the wool government employee...
Sullivan points out the money they spent was unrestricted and won't affect the amount of anyone's unemployment check.
That last statement is what is wrong with the system. When government employees don't even blink at spending what would be considered a very good annual salary on some half baked idea with no oversight, we are in big trouble. Not only that, but the fact that the money was unrestricted as to how they could spend it lends itself to fraud, and waste. We could probably cut a Billion from the budget today by removing all unrestricted monies from the various departments.
Secondly, I firmly believe that as long as you pay someone a livable (albeit barely, but still livable) wage to do nothing, they have no incentive to change that situation.
A couple of things should happen with unemployment. First, after the first two weeks, they should have to provide a minimum of 20 hours community service every week until employed, but I believe that if you are taking ANY public assistance, you should have to do weekly community service to keep getting it. Second, I say we need to bring back apprenticeship programs. Get rid of these stupid job training programs and pick up the tab on some one's salary for the first three months while they are trained for their new job. This will get many of them back into the workforce and they will meet the need of the companies instead of some overpriced generic job training that meets almost no need except for the governments to throw our money away. Finally, you should only be able to draw a specified amount of unemployment during your lifetime. One year in every seven year cycle for example. After that, it is determined that you are a worthless piece of crap trying to game the system and don't need anymore help. My thinking, though, is that if you implemented my first idea, about 80% of the people on unemployment would be working within a month.
posted by davis14633 at 07:12
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"They say even though unemployment remains high, there are businesses who need employees, but instead the unemployed are sitting at home."
I would point out that we should insert the word "good" between "need" and "employees."
We now have a situation where laziness has become generationally pandemic across entire swaths of the population. Even when many of them try to hold a job, they can't. They have no work ethic and they've never been hungry; again, this was by political design. I hate to keep resurrecting LBJ's stinking, rotten corpse, but if the horns fit...
Unfortunately, the screeching monkey currently flinging poo in the White House thinks it's the responsibility of employers to hire everyone who comes in the door -- or at least that is the pablum he spews out in front of the lapdog reporters. Because only an idiot leftist who's never held a real private sector job would consider that a valid viewpoint. Oh, wait...
While I absolutely agree that ther needs to be more stick to go along with the carrot, we and our former employers pay for most of the unemployment that you are able to draw from once you are seperated from said employer. Only this past year the government started kicking in extra for those that were drawing longer than their contributions would normally allow. If you work and contribute to unemployment, you absolutely should be allowed to draw that when you are unemployed. But, I don't agree that there should be a endless well of taxpayer funded additional funds to allow people to just be on unemployment forever. I think a short- term extension was necessary during the current fire-fest and subsequent scared to hire anyone while Barry is running the country in the ground.
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