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Stop the checks, get to work

To the Editor:

In response to the article, “Where Are the Workers?” Well, you can thank your President Biden for that.

This crisis is solely on the woke administration’s shoulders. It’s been 16 months of unemployment checks! Plus, the extra $300 per week from the federal government. Stop the checks and stop whispering, “pay them more.” 

I thought there was a limit of time on the unemployment checks?

There was a time I was unemployed. The rule then was six months max. And you had to apply for a job at five places per week, and show (on paper) that you had applied, and you were making an effort to secure your livelihood of cashflow and they investigated your claims. After six months they stop the checks. 

Presently there are so many jobs to be had. You can almost pick any job you like regardless of your skin color. Nobody is going to turn you away. Nobody ever offered me the incentives that are being offered now: sign-on bonuses, relaxed schedules or even higher pay. No one ever said, “she’s white, let her continue her privilege, you’re hired.” Ha ha.

If your president just keeps giving out all our tax money, to basically lazy people, then they’ll never get off their lounger. It’s the beginning of Marxism, socialism, and then communism (China). 

Let’s all just live off the government. They give you money, then dictate how you’ll live. And why not — then you’ll be employed. Got it? Like a boss. You get paid, they tell you what to do.

Have you noticed the bare shelves? Long wait times in every aspect? Sourcing out jobs to other countries? 

I called for takeout pizza. The woman who answered the phone was in El Paso. Guess Canton’s people have jobs?

Maybe all those crossing our border have scooped up on our jobs. Or, maybe we’re just too lazy and are all-too-happy to accept free money that we, our children and grandkids will have to pay back. 

Taxes are going up, which Biden promised wouldn’t happen (liar, BS). How and where is he getting all this money? Making it in the basement? From China? Social Security? Certainly not welfare.

Get up people. Show some self-respect, take responsibility for your own finances. Stop depending on others. And by all means get a job. 

Nancy Jean Casto Subic 

Clyde

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