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Unemployment benefits are ending this September. Aren’t you sad?

I have a cousin that is upset because unemployment benefits are ending and the extra stimulus checks are cutting off. She complains that it’s unfair that our president and governors are doing this when people are still struggling. She applied for jobs but not since last month. I think it’s unfair that what our president is doing but she should be looking for a job. A lot of places are hiring and she won’t apply. She said she’s waiting for her old job to give her her job back but they kept telling her they can’t offer her a job right now and they won’t know until like October. She said if she gets a job but then her old employer retire her back then she might have to cut down the new job and take the old job back. There’s jobs that have 14-17/hr jobs! Even 20 or 25 bucks an hour! I would take those jobs! She said her old job didn’t pay her much and she only got paid like 11.50 an hour. I think she should take the new jobs. Honestly I think she likes sitting at home and collecting unemployment and she said that she gets paid to stay at home.
I’ve never been on unemployment since I’m only 18 but I start my new job tomorrow.
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plungesponge · 41-45, M
The federal governments of most developed nations have way too much power.

Historically, a community looked after its people and provided charity through local leadership that personally knew the recipients and could make judgement calls like the kind you are making right now.

That might have been a mayor or priest or community elder, and while each of these had their own problems, the one benefit they had which big government doesn't is familiarity and ownership, which hugely reduced waste
LaylaTheTallGirl · 18-21, F
@plungesponge What makes you think I’m judging? I’m just asking a question and you’re getting defensive. I don’t think it’s fair that the President is cutting off unemployment. I mean I understand that he wants to go to look for jobs and stuff I get it but still he shouldn’t take it away from people that still need it.
@plungesponge That hasn’t been possible in the US since the 1929s. The reason we have So yak Security and Medicare is because the churches and private charities were unable to meet the need when it was greatest.

If you want to go back to a sparsely-populated agrarian society, you might have a point, but not in our modern interconnected global economy.