Is the American work ethic dying?

[Hawkeye10]

Bungler Biden's case for the American Rescue Plan (ARP) was simple: Americans needed economic relief, and they needed it fast.

Government spending—in the form of $1.9 trillion worth of deficit-financed programs and checks—was necessary to kick the economy into high gear.

"Big, bold action" would "change the course of the pandemic and begin economic recovery." The real risk wasn't in doing too much. It was in doing too little. Or so he said.

As it turns out, however, there were risks in going big—risks that were both predictable and predicted. And now, those risks are turning into very real threats. Instead of kick-starting the economy as promised, bungling Biden's regressive Rescue Plan is holding it back.

The most obvious way in which the ARP is holding back the recovery is through boosted federal unemployment benefits.

The recovery legislation extended a $300-per-week bonus payment through September.

Because that $300 bonus comes on top of state-based unemployment insurance, which varies by state but on average runs a little over $300, a typical beneficiary now gets the equivalent of more than $15 an hour to stay home, which is more than many would earn at work.

For many, then, the straightforward economic incentive is to avoid work and collect checks instead.


https://reason.com/2021/05/13/bidens-1-9-trillion-rescue-plan-isnt-saving-the-economy-its-holding-it-back/

Because the Revolution wants weak people who are beholden to the government, who cant do for themselves, because everything with them is all about power.

[Mr.Badguy]

Essentially.



Again, working from home ≠ unwilling to work.

But being unwilling to work for a company that doesn't allow WFH during (let's face it we're not it of the woods) a pandemic is also a problem right now. This is essentially a widespread very unorganized labor movement. Eventually the organization part needs to get sorted out before anyone can expect employers to come to the negotiating table however. Another big reason so many corporations practice anti-union tactics.

[Legion]

But being unwilling to work for a company that doesn't allow WFH during (let's face it we're not it of the woods) a pandemic is also a problem right now.

No, it's not, and it is outside the scope of this discussion. Working from home ≠ unwilling to work. Working from company premises ≠ unwilling to work. Working ≠ unwilling to work.

Try to focus.

Another big reason so many corporations practice anti-union tactics.

Are you forgetting that the richest man in the world (Mr. Amazon) is a leftist who attempted to quash the union in his own company also controls the leftist Washington Post?

[Legion]

The job I retired from involved doing utilization review/case management. Everything was done via computer and phone. A group of us put forth a proposal to management that we be allowed to work from home occasionally. Our immediate supervisors didn't like the idea because it meant the end of their positions. Upper brass didn't like it because it meant that they couldn't "manage" us (i.e., walk around and make sure we were actually working). As you can imagine, a group of educated, intelligent, experienced, and licensed (we were RNs) professionals did not take kindly to the suggestion that we needed to be watched over like a group of kindergarteners. So management shot it down. A year after I retired, someone up the mgmt food chain won an "attaboy" for the proposal, and guess what? The whole office went virtual. Hours of commuting saved daily, thousands of dollars in child care expenses saved weekly, less call-outs for sick time, and happy employees. I'm still friends with several of my former coworkers, who are very happy working from home.

A Story for Every Occasion™.

[NiftyNiblick]

Are you forgetting that the richest man in the world (Mr. Amazon) is a leftist who attempted to quash the union in his own company also controls the leftist Washington Post?

Bezos is inconsistent which means that he has no ideology at all.
He picks and chooses from both menus to serve his self interests.
Nothing uncommon about that.
Nothing hard to discern, either.

[Mr.Badguy]

No, it's not, and it is outside the scope of this discussion. Working from home ≠ unwilling to work. Working from company premises ≠ unwilling to work. Working ≠ unwilling to work.

Try to focus.



Are you forgetting that the richest man in the world (Mr. Amazon) is a leftist who attempted to quash the union in his own company also controls the leftist Washington Post?

Absolute capitalism corrupts absolutely, lol.

[Legion]

Bezos is inconsistent which means that he has no ideology at all. He picks and chooses from both menus to serve his self interests. Nothing uncommon about that. Nothing hard to discern, either.

I must have missed you calling him out for objecting to the use of mail-in voting in his Alabama facility.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-presses-for-in-person-voting-for-unionization-election-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic/

[Legion]

Absolute capitalism corrupts absolutely, lol.

You still seem unable to grasp what the topic under discussion is.

[Mr.Badguy]

You still seem unable to grasp what the topic under discussion is.

No, the topic is just much more broad than you can comprehend, or are willing to admit.

[Legion]

No, the topic is just much more broad than you can comprehend, or are willing to admit.

So you say. Being willing to work AT ALL is the topic. Being reluctant to work from an employer's premises but doing it anyway isn't the same thing.

[Legion]

Facing an impending recall election, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is engaging in a little populist politicking by proposing to send checks straight to state residents.

Those checks will come as part of the DEMOCRAT'S $100 billion "California Comeback Plan," made possible by federal "coronavirus aid".

The details of how all that money will be spent "will be trickled out by Newsom's team, hoping for a crescendo of budget news to build throughout the week and culminate with the unveiling of the governor's revised state spending plan" on Friday, reports the Los Angeles Times.

The governor was nevertheless eager to telegraph the checks on Monday.

"We are tripling the Golden State Stimulus to get money in the hands of more middle-class Californians who have been hit hard by this pandemic," said Newsom in a Monday press release. "Two in three Californians will receive a check from the state."

Earlier this year, California sent $600 checks to low-income Californians earning up to $30,000, low- and middle-income "undocumented workers", the disabled, and families already receiving state CalWORKS benefits. (Low-income undocumented workers qualified for an additional $600 to make up for their exclusion from federal relief payments.)

This second round of checks is more broad-based. It will give all Californians earning up to $75,000 a $600 stimulus payment. Families with children will get an additional $500.



https://reason.com/2021/05/13/are-gavin-newsoms-600-checks-a-redistributive-vote-buying-scheme-or-welcome-return-of-stolen-goods/