Only +266,000 jobs in April

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Conservatives are blaming it on the stimulus and unemployment payouts. I blame it on the failure of employers to offer sufficient incentive. We all know they don't really give a damn about incentive or they never would have cut starting pay before creating their incentive plans as many of them did. No, they'd rather cut off unemployment pay and starve people back into the workforce.

This is the true nature of American Conservatism and it's ugly.

Only the conservatives would reason the people would prefer a one time (stimulus) check over a regular paycheck. Or that the extra unemployment money has turned the nation into a bunch of layabouts.

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Only the conservatives would reason the people would prefer a one time (stimulus) check over a regular paycheck. Or that the extra unemployment money has turned the nation into a bunch of layabouts.

There don't seem to be many conservatives here to address that so let me enlighten you. As a conservative myself and surrounded by a lot of them in my travels I can tell you this:

The first point is false. The opposite is true. However, if the government is going to throw free money at everyone, I want my share, if only to throw it into a savings account to use to pay the taxes - or help offset the price inflation - that I'll be required to pay to offset the payment.

Regarding the second part, you are absolutely correct, but I wouldn't use the "layabouts" description. Rather, when the government pays you more to not work than an employer pays you to work, you are likely to just go for the government payments, especially if you don't spend a lot of time looking at the big picture and long term consequences.

But the free fed money for unemployment will be ending soon - and so will the labor shortage. This assumes they don't increase it again.

This is the position of all the conservatives I've discussed this with. All of them.