May 7, 2021
South Carolina, Montana, Florida say 'no' to Democrats' vision of 'Layabout Nation'
By Monica Showalter
For Democrats, the ideal world is to have three castes -- big government overlords who know everything and benevolently do the central planning, a cadre of loyal big corporate cronies who share their technology and silence their critics, and ... peasants - a huge class of people, every last one of whom is dependent on the government for bodily survival. Beggars, after all, are easiest to please, which is the surest means of creating permanent blocs of Democrat voters. Hard work and individual initiativem after all, is for Kulaks -- hoarders, wreckers, saboteurs, and counterrevolutionaries, as Stalin, more or less, used to say.
That's what's behind the far-left notions of universal basic income, which is a favorite of th Democrat Socialists of America crowd, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Based on the past several stimulus packages passed, complete with small packets of "stimulus" cash handed out to the public through the IRS, they've been pilot-fishing this idea for about a year now, and getting ready for bigger things.
Just one problem: Nobody wants to work anymore. Huge labor shortages are appearing in the workforce, with most economists attributing the problem to government stimulus payouts, including supplemental checks for the unemployed. That makes it more attractive not to work than to actually work. Work under such conditions is for suckers. And small businesses in particular, hardest hit by the coronavirus, as well as the ugly prospect that they can capriciously be shut down again while bigger corporate rivals won't be, are looking at a multiple whammy on the labor front. If the COVID shutdowns didn't get these small businesses, this labor shortage brought on by stimulus handouts, will. Issues and Insights has an excellent writeup of how the labor shortage is happening based on Democrat policies. That isn't the only bad Democrat policy driving the labor shortage, another is Joe Biden dropping all requirements for receiving welfare, returning to the multigenerational model of welfare as a lifestyle choice, promoted by the Democrats.
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