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2021-05-08 Home Front: Politix

South Carolina, Montana, Florida say 'no' to Democrats' vision of 'Layabout Nation'

[American Thinker] For Democrats, the ideal world is to have three castes — Big Government overlords who know everything and benevolently do the central planning; a cadre of loyal Big Corporate cronies who share their technology and silence their critics; and...peasants — a huge class of people, every last one of whom is dependent on the government for bodily survival. Beggars, after all, are easiest to please, which is the surest means of creating permanent blocs of Democrat voters. Hard work and individual initiative, after all, are for kulaks — hoarders, wreckers, saboteurs, and counterrevolutionaries, as Stalin, more or less, used to say.

That's what's behind the far-left notions of universal basic income, which is a favorite of the Democratic Socialists of America crowd, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Based on the past several stimulus packages passed, complete with small packets of "stimulus" cash handed out to the public through the IRS, they've been pilot-fishing this idea for about a year now and getting ready for bigger things.

Just one problem: Nobody wants to work anymore. Huge labor shortages are appearing in the workforce, with most economists attributing the problem to government stimulus payouts, including supplemental checks for the unemployed. That makes it more attractive not to work than to actually work. Work under such conditions is for suckers. And small businesses in particular, hardest hit by the coronavirus, as well as the ugly prospect that they can capriciously be shut down again while bigger corporate rivals won't be, are looking at a multiple-whammy on the labor front. If the COVID shutdowns didn't get these small businesses, this labor shortage brought on by stimulus handouts will.

Issues and Insights has an excellent write-up of how the labor shortage is happening based on Democrat policies. That isn't the only bad Democrat policy driving the labor shortage; another is Joe Biden dropping all requirements for receiving welfare, returning to the multigenerational model of welfare as a lifestyle choice, promoted by the Democrats.

Fortunately, one by one, the red states are starting to notice. Better still, their governors are saying "no."

Here's one:

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-08 02:25|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 "Just one problem: Nobody wants to work anymore. Huge labor shortages are appearing in the workforce, with most economists attributing the problem to government stimulus payouts, including supplemental checks for the unemployed." So true. I see it every day. Supply line stock outs, back orders and such. Within 24's hours ODs occur after "stimulus" received. These people just do not care. White women and they report liberal women are among the worst. Over 50% have serious mental issues. Years on meds such as for ADD and OCD. Major effort to maintain a stable workforce. They just don't show up for work.

Posted by Dale 2021-05-08 04:15|| 2021-05-08 04:15|| Front Page Top

#2 It is a highly rational decision to not work when you are being paid 50% or 100% more to not work. As soon as this money disappears, people will go back to work. It's not about "wanting" to work. It's about being able to turn down essentially free (to you) money. Not many people will do that. Even knowing that it's better for you (mentally and physically) to work, and better for society as a whole for you to work, turning down a government subsidy to sit on your butt and get paid more than a day's work could give you is an extremely hard sell.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2021-05-08 08:27|| 2021-05-08 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Almost every business in my small town has a now hiring sign in the window. some are closed on weekends or close after 5PM. It will only get worse.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-05-08 08:29|| 2021-05-08 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 The inclination to chronic indolence is as old as humanity. It just used to be that the gummint didn't make it a viable way to go via confiscatory taxation and politically motivated redistribution.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-05-08 10:09|| 2021-05-08 10:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Working is a learned behavioral trait.

Use to be the penalty for not learning how to work, was death in its many natural ways.

Then came the safety net.

Then came the hammock.

And now, with these 21st century children, they were taught they were expected to work, but not why. That is the failure of the previous couple of generations, who were probably not sure why either, when you could just hippie or disco out, pay off the credit card, and others would worry about stuff like space travel, or engineering, or construction.

So these kids, already on the fence about why, are naturally inclined to why not work?

And through their teens they were promised golden apples, Staycation, Funemployment, Food and Shelter Gimmies for the unemployed, shoot, like the drug lifestyle we have a program for that too.

So all these little parakeets, raised by parents who were encouraged to reject the millions of years of proven generational growth, overexposed to anti-social media as a babysitter/nanny/teacher/guild master, only know how to ding a bell for a treat, sit on a perch, and say, "I'm a pretty bird!" when whistled at.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-08 12:14|| 2021-05-08 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 The old sci-fi stories used to be about how everyone had to scrape by after the "old ones," who knew how to keep everything working, died off. Who's going to write the sci-fi story about people finding it hard to get by because their phones and social media have stopped working?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-05-08 12:36|| 2021-05-08 12:36|| Front Page Top

#7 We could ask my liberal friends who poo-poo'd Subway's Report/Warning, "Ugh, who would want to work Subway anywayz, gah."

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-08 13:29|| 2021-05-08 13:29|| Front Page Top

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