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Something you may not know…Congress agreed to extend unemployment benefits for another thirteen months. On the surface, that sounds humanitarian and every bit like a giving gesture any government should be obligated to do for its people, but if you happened to be collecting these benefits for the past two or three years, with no disabilities to claim, I’m sure the decision made today must be similar to the feeling a working man or woman has when he or she works everyday and gets a raise or a pat on the back, only it’s different, because a lot of people or content to do nothing but collect from the government---and, statistically, these are people who vote for liberal ideas.
I like to do things. I like to set personal goals and to achieve things. I like to be challenged. I appreciate what I earn and the thing I like least is to ask other people or my government for help. Unemployment checks are a useful commodity for any man, woman or family who is facing adversity for a patch of time, but to grow rooted to the soil of the government and the idle nutrients it supplements some people with, for years, is more of a crime than a charity.
Something you may not know…Congress agreed to extend unemployment benefits for another thirteen months. On the surface, that sounds humanitarian and every bit like a giving gesture any government should be obligated to do for its people, but if you happened to be collecting these benefits for the past two or three years, with no disabilities to claim, I’m sure the decision made today must be similar to the feeling a working man or woman has when he or she works everyday and gets a raise or a pat on the back, only it’s different, because a lot of people or content to do nothing but collect from the government---and, statistically, these are people who vote for liberal ideas.
I like to do things. I like to set personal goals and to achieve things. I like to be challenged. I appreciate what I earn and the thing I like least is to ask other people or my government for help. Unemployment checks are a useful commodity for any man, woman or family who is facing adversity for a patch of time, but to grow rooted to the soil of the government and the idle nutrients it supplements some people with, for years, is more of a crime than a charity.
In the spirit of not simply complaining, but presenting a solution, too, I propose a deadline and a set of contingencies for these unemployment benefits to expire. As the deadline nears and some certain mouths refuse to stop sucking upon the teat of the government, present drug tests and more stringently documented efforts of attempting to seek employment. If a person cannot meet the minimal demands of being a contributing member of society then they do not deserve our tax money. And if genuine effort is made to contribute to society but opportunity is simply unavailable, no judgment should be held over any man’s or woman’s head, and they should be able to receive every bit of aid they need until they do find an opportunity.
I am trying to tiptoe over strewn eggshells that, obviously, no politicians want to address with any real sense of validity. It is a sensitive topic but I think this one fact speaks for itself: Long time recipients of welfare or unemployment checks do not, statistically, vote for Republicans. That being said, conservative ideas are not insensitive to certain voters, they are designed with the intention to motivate Americans to succeed and to not sit idly by.
1,832.3 miles to go.
I am trying to tiptoe over strewn eggshells that, obviously, no politicians want to address with any real sense of validity. It is a sensitive topic but I think this one fact speaks for itself: Long time recipients of welfare or unemployment checks do not, statistically, vote for Republicans. That being said, conservative ideas are not insensitive to certain voters, they are designed with the intention to motivate Americans to succeed and to not sit idly by.
1,832.3 miles to go.
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