Civilized said:
wolfman18 said:
Civilized said:
Steve Williams said:
Biden is proving that just being a good guy can you get a 50% approval rate in the US. Personally, I really take issue with his comment that he sees no evidence that government assistance is preventing people from going back to work. That's just a bold lie. You have millions sitting at home sucking the nation dry off the backs of those who work when jobs are available. Infuriates me. The gravy train will end. We'll revisit Biden's approval numbers once it does.
Biden's approval numbers are already rather low given where he is in the presidency.
Clearly some people are sitting at home still because they're getting unemployment. We can all pontificate how many people it is but I haven't seen any seemingly sound quantitative assessment of this.
Maybe it's just because I sell in the hospitality industry, but that sector is brutal with employment.
Restaurant/bar is still, by far, the most-impacted industry.
With a trend towards full reopening and in-person dining I'd expect that to bounce up significantly in the next 90 days.
If they extend the unemployment benefits past September, restaurants will be closed because they can't staff enough for the customers that will need them. I've seen restaurants that have only opened for dinner or only opened during the week or just the weekend. It depends on how many people that can actually get to work. If you tell a server that he or she can make 500 a week without having to deal with ******* customers that treat them like dog ****, why in the WORLD would they go back to work?
To be honest, the restaurant industry can't afford to go back to full capacity right now. Extended unemployment benefits need to end, they need to get back to work, get trained properly, and THEN open back up to full capacity.
From a CNBC article about the April Jobs Report:
"'I think this is just as much about a shortage in labor supply as it is about a shortage of labor demand,' said Jason Furman, an economist at Harvard University and a former Obama administration advisor. 'If you look at April, it appears that there were about 1.1 unemployed workers for every job opening. So there are a lot of jobs out there, there is just still not a lot of labor supply.'"
That's a polished way of saying there are a **** load of lazy mf'ers out there gaming the system. There are MORE jobs than people to fill them, yet unemployment rose to 6.1%. Incentivize work, not welfare. But that won't happen in Biden's manchurian presidency.
