NYC, MANCHIN'S DEMS WILL KILL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
In the first quarter of 2020, COVID-19 took a vice-like hold of
the US. The reality of the devastating effects of COVID began
to loom large in terms of everyday life, and all too many deaths.
The Trump administration, true to form, botched America’s
response and the pandemic went wild-fire across the country.
Consequently, the American economy seemingly teetered on
the edge of a twenty-first century Great Depression. Yet that
never came. Why exactly was that? In short, government
intervention and the implementation of societal and economic
safety nets.
Despite the vaccine roll-out being utterly messed up by Trump
and his goons, we are now seeing hundreds of millions of “free”
vaccines being administered across the US. Unemployment
benefits have been enhanced to ensure families are protected
from the harsh, economic cross-winds of the pandemic. In
addition to that, we have had stimulus checks distributed wide
and far so as to help a bombarded economy stay afloat through
consumer spending. On all three counts, vaccines, enhanced
benefits and stimulus payments, how very “socialist”. And yet
how very effective they have been, irrespective of that
supposedly un-American epitaph.
Despite President Biden arguably having a growing liberal /
radical agenda (and that argument is a very real one), he has
now turned his non-progressive ire onto those protected by the
safety net of unemployment benefit. Following an April that
was a particularly weak month for new jobs, Biden has, true to
his deep-down DNA, decided that those that can least afford a
low-paying job, should go out and get one lest they are
punished by having their unemployment benefits cut off if they
turn down “suitable employment.”
Know this – “suitable employment” is poorly concealed code for
“substandard employment.” To those in receipt of
unemployment benefits, they are protected from minimum-
wage paying, benefit-free pre-pandemic jobs that littered the
American economy. Add to that the fact that if the majority of
employers had their way, wages would forever be supressed so
as to protect their bottom-line corporate profits. It is complete
garbage that if employee wages go up, then prices of goods
and services must go up. Never forget, if a business or
corporation can’t hammer the employee to protect its profits,
then it will turn to its next victim, the consumer. It can never be
the profits suffer. It is always another target group.
That is what enhanced unemployment benefit payments protect
the recipients from – the money-thirsty sub-standards of
corporate and vested interest greed. Despite what he may say,
Biden has one eye firmly rested on the 1% billionaire class that
dictate how the country is run and pull stings like crazed
puppeteers to ensure that that is always in their favor.
The UK has run government programs with “get a job or lose
your benefits” at their heart for years, with any number of
results, all of them adverse. First, such an approach serves
only to push some unemployment benefit recipients into badly-
paid jobs that they quickly jettison. In doing so, they return to
benefits once more. Second, if you lose your safety net and
can’t find “suitable employment”, criminal and nefarious
activities become more alluring. Both are equally transferable
shadows that can be cast across the US if Biden gets his
assault against unemployment benefits fully under way.
The fundamental problem, and one that Biden simply doesn’t
get, is that a society is more than just simply an economic
model with some limited positives for the entitled few, and a
multitude of negative outcomes for the rest of us. The hall-
mark of a civilized society is not its GDP or worth on the stock
market. Absolutely not. Rather it is the provision of not only
equal opportunity for all, but also equal protection for all, and
that includes financial and economic too. The bulk of American
jobs have for way too long now paid scandalously low wages
while all the time the cost of living continues to sky-rocket. Put
another way, if American employers were made to pay an
actual living wage, then the benefits safety net needn’t be so
broad.
If you thought Biden was free from the hypnotic stare of
billionaire America, then think again. And that stare inevitably
intoxicates him to turn his ire onto those not taking “suitable
jobs” as opposed to those who deserve a life free of having to
scrape by, fall into an endless circle of debt and unshackled
free-market exploitation. That’s because when push comes to
shove, Biden puts the 1% forever above the remaining 99%.
Safety nets from poverty and exploitation be damned.