Let Ray live with his Labor Force Participation rant
Explaining it over the last four years is fruitless.....might as well pound your head against the wall
But guess what?
REPUBLICANS are calling the shots now. Let Ray explain why Trump and the Republican Congress is not doing anything to stop a declining labor force.....He voted for them
Right. You never asked the question the last eight years, but because Trump took office, now you want immediate results.
Trump budget will slash Medicaid, food stamps programs: reports
So people will suffer
What does that have to do with 95 million people out of the workforce?
Is Trumps plan to have them die?
No, nobody is going to die like nobody died after Welfare Reform was passed.
We need to get people off the dole and back to work. It's like Rush Limbaugh said so many times "If you pay people not to work, don't be surprised when they don't."
Pushing people off the dole will force them back to work and yes, increase our labor participation rate. They'll have to give up smoking pot so they can pass a drug test and get a job already.
A person will not be forced to work it there is no job they can do. The states will have to come up with the money to support these people. It may take this to convince conservatives, that welfare queens are a rarities and there are good reasons why most people on the "dole" are there.
I would disagree.........too many personal experiences.
There are plenty of jobs with nobody willing to do them. As a truck driver I spend my day in industrial areas. They are all loaded with HELP WANTED signs company after company. Go back to the same industrial area about a month later, the signs are still out there.
Of course some of them are our customers, so I inquire about what they are offering. Some of them don't pay too badly for a no-skill job and offer plenty of overtime. Same goes with skill or willing to train jobs.
It's not that all Americans won't work, it's that Americans can't pass a drug test. They get applicants, but when it comes time to explain their no tolerance drug policy, the applicants walk out and don't come back.
If these people won't give up pot or whatever they are taking to get a job, how are they making ends meet?
The thing is our government rewards people for not working, or gives incentives to keep their income low. Go past government maximum income, and you lose your government benefits. For them, it's like working for free, so how could we fix that if we don't cut those benefits?