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No more signs for Big Macs or Whoppers just help wanted. Every business I go to has help wanted signs all over the place. Nobody wants to work because they are on the federal government gravy train.
I happen to see this from a different point of view.
At some point until about the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was more of a shared success in American prosperity that meant when companies were profitable, the rank and file employees who were spokes in the wheels of a company's success also did better. However, that has shifted over the last several decades.
Executives who lead companies into bankruptcy (such as the example of KMart, Sears), further resulting in numerous layoffs of workers of the lower rungs of the income scale, through no fault of those rank and file workers, still get these massive golden parachute severance packages even when they are grossly incompetent and run a well-run company into the ground, or do something ridiculous that would have gotten them fired and thrown out on the street without some absurd lottery like severance package?
But what type of severance have those laid off workers gotten? None? Oh yeah, that's right.
The US labor movement has been limping along thanks to countless amounts of union busting and corruption by corporate lobbyists who pay off legislators to pass laws that protect the elite but do nothing for the working class, their rights, or their basic dignity.
Now the tables have turned somewhat, with these barons needing their servants back, and it makes them huffy when their demands aren't being catered to. But their servants are finally getting a few of these benefits themselves, through sheer timing, to be able to provide for their families, and are doing better than they were with pittance wages from someone who would use them up and throw them out the door without a shred of loyalty. So now they're simply doing the logical thing by not being loyal to those that would be dishonorable to them, and deciding that they can play that game too. Perhaps if the working class were treated better, they may have a different attitude, but who can blame them given the disposable way they are treated by too many short-sighted employers?
This can't be sustained forever from a public fiscal point of view, and the recipients realize that more than people think, but folks in the lower income tier of society having a bit of the upper hand now is something understandably the ruling/lobbyist class, who are used to getting their way, don't like. Lets just call it what it is.
Land of the couch potatoes... And people wonder why our manufacturing base left us... Potato Joe Biden is the worst of them all... 50 years in government, and not a damn thing to show for it. Just ask one of his dozen or so supporters to name one accomplishment of his, without mentioning Trump. It can't be done. He spent his whole career just showing up to collect his check, and the 10% for the "big guy"... And he has nothing to show for it other than some nice sports cars and a vast collection of epic gaffes.
The grifter gets no respect because respect is earned. He didn't even earn the presidency, it had to be stolen for him. Oh, excuse me... It was "fortified" for him.
People will want to work when gas is 6 bucks a gallon and electric vehicles are 75 grand.
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