So NC didn't sink into a Dickensian nightmare after it ended extended UI
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You mean when you cut people off the government dole, that people actually will get off their butts and get motivated to go out there and get a job, even if its not the most glamorous, something to pay the bills and put food on the table?
Re-read the article: The jobs that people are getting increasingly are not paying enough to "pay the bills", but rather put many folks on an inescapable cycle of insolvency and set them up to be unable to make ends meet once they're too infirm to work.
Re-read the article: The jobs that people are getting increasingly are not paying enough to "pay the bills", but rather put many folks on an inescapable cycle of insolvency and set them up to be unable to make ends meet once they're too infirm to work.
But you would never call that "tin foil hat stuff" would you?
North Carolina's labor force participation rate is almost two percentage points below the national average. Evidently, because there's no money riding on it, the failure to extend unemployment has led to more people not even bothering to look for work.
They are probably filing for disability or something.
And then after the SS disability fund is exhausted next year, I guess they'll just hang out at the border saying "No hablo Englais!" until they get on that federal teat.
I'm still waiting for the planes to fall out of the sky over the sequester.
That was a self fulfilling prophecy. The Obama administration did their best to make the public suffer as much as it could. Closed memorials that never had staff working them, parks were closed, furloughed traffic controllers to create additional delays, and more such nonsense.
They only needed to furlough a small percentage of the least needed employees and the shortfall would have been covered.
In Obama administration fashion they inflicted maximum pain.
But you would never call that "tin foil hat stuff" would you?
I would call the celebratory aspect of the news from NC to be right-wing self-delusion intended to rationalize a further expansion of economic injustice.
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