Mike is again late for the GQP meme of the week. Of course, Mike is disingenuous in that if someone wants people to work for them, they need to pay enough to pay for housing, afford their own food, get child care (if they are mothers or fathers that need to have someone stay with their kids), expect something for health care, and reasonably expect to work in safe conditions where they won’t get exposed to idiots that refuse to get shots or wear masks.
If they expect to work for them under slave conditions they shouldn’t expect to stay in business unless they can convince the local correctional institution to provide people under a work release program. People aren’t willing to go back to work when the salary continues to make them eligible for government assistance like food stamps and SNAP.
There is no depth to which Lester will not sink when lying to defend the grotesque and absurd GOP Leadershit $2 trillion tax break to the 1% and the desperate efforts of us, the 99%, to try to claw back our democracy stolen from us over the past seven decades of GOP Leadershit betrayal and Corpocracy plunder.
Hey, Mike, your average poor person works at least 10 times harder than any cartoonist.
Republican politicians – who get paid a king’s ransom to do absolutely nothing useful – really believe that poor people just have this great life sitting on their behinds, watching TV and collecting.
It gets tiring to read these people’s nonsense. I doubt any of them read past the headline that has been designed to confirm what they already believe. In this case it’s – the working poor are lazy and would rather sit at home and watch TV rather than earn a real living. They want to suckle at the teat of the government.
The thing is that they have no evidence, what so ever, that this is true. Yes, the last jobs number came in unexpectedly low. Yes there are some industries that are hurting for workers. But stating that overly generous unemployment benefits is the reason is circular logic.
On the other hand there is evidence that the opposite is true – unemployment do not keep people from work. The Chicago Federal Reserve found that people with current benefits are twice as likely to be looking for work as opposed to people whose benefits have expired. Paul Krugman (a Nobel winning economist) points out that one month doesn’t establish a trend and that in states where they have cut off benefits, low wage jobs are still waiting to be filled.
It could be that people who work in these kinds of jobs are reassessing their life choices and moving on to better paying jobs. It may be that women are staying home with their kids out of necessity. Maybe people are still worried about Covid-19.
Whatever it is I prefer it to the idea that in order to make the economy work we have to make people so desperate that they’ll take any low paying, dangerous, miserable job they can find. That’s not really an America I want to live in.
Chipotle is raising their wages to $15/hr and offering referral incentives to employees. As result, restaurant competitors are freaking out: how dare they adjust wages to meet inflation. In other news, Denny’s is also raising wages. If you’re freaking out that unemployment pays better than jobs that wants you to live off tips, then you’re on the wrong side of the argument.
Irrefutable law of nature: feed the bears you get lazy bears and more of them. Ask Marriott: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-bz-marriott-signing-bonus-orlando-20210511-lzl4svuofnhcbm7vplhhn32uw4-story.html
Along with myself, there are millions of people wondering “why” the un-employed would want to go back to work when the government is paying them more then their employer is/would ?
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
Piffle
RAGs almost 3 years ago
A typical Li’l Mikey cartoon, it’s either a distortion or an outright lie.
Daeder almost 3 years ago
Lester is another diligent sheep, eating the fields of lies that they want him to, and drawing the same crap they want him to…
Patjade almost 3 years ago
Mike is again late for the GQP meme of the week. Of course, Mike is disingenuous in that if someone wants people to work for them, they need to pay enough to pay for housing, afford their own food, get child care (if they are mothers or fathers that need to have someone stay with their kids), expect something for health care, and reasonably expect to work in safe conditions where they won’t get exposed to idiots that refuse to get shots or wear masks.
If they expect to work for them under slave conditions they shouldn’t expect to stay in business unless they can convince the local correctional institution to provide people under a work release program. People aren’t willing to go back to work when the salary continues to make them eligible for government assistance like food stamps and SNAP.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 3 years ago
That’s right Lester, those people are swimming in money. One of them even bought a $500,000,000 yacht.
baroden Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Yea. Cuz that $7.50/hr job is just calling them back. Pay them a living wage, provide healthcare, and then maybe people will return to work.
Fred flintstone almost 3 years ago
lol
cocavan11 almost 3 years ago
There is no depth to which Lester will not sink when lying to defend the grotesque and absurd GOP Leadershit $2 trillion tax break to the 1% and the desperate efforts of us, the 99%, to try to claw back our democracy stolen from us over the past seven decades of GOP Leadershit betrayal and Corpocracy plunder.
Deny Crane almost 3 years ago
Is this a Chicago Bears Joke? Being paid to lose??
Ignatz Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Hey, Mike, your average poor person works at least 10 times harder than any cartoonist.
Republican politicians – who get paid a king’s ransom to do absolutely nothing useful – really believe that poor people just have this great life sitting on their behinds, watching TV and collecting.
Because they don’t actually KNOW any poor people.
ChristopherBurns almost 3 years ago
It gets tiring to read these people’s nonsense. I doubt any of them read past the headline that has been designed to confirm what they already believe. In this case it’s – the working poor are lazy and would rather sit at home and watch TV rather than earn a real living. They want to suckle at the teat of the government.
The thing is that they have no evidence, what so ever, that this is true. Yes, the last jobs number came in unexpectedly low. Yes there are some industries that are hurting for workers. But stating that overly generous unemployment benefits is the reason is circular logic.
On the other hand there is evidence that the opposite is true – unemployment do not keep people from work. The Chicago Federal Reserve found that people with current benefits are twice as likely to be looking for work as opposed to people whose benefits have expired. Paul Krugman (a Nobel winning economist) points out that one month doesn’t establish a trend and that in states where they have cut off benefits, low wage jobs are still waiting to be filled.
It could be that people who work in these kinds of jobs are reassessing their life choices and moving on to better paying jobs. It may be that women are staying home with their kids out of necessity. Maybe people are still worried about Covid-19.
Whatever it is I prefer it to the idea that in order to make the economy work we have to make people so desperate that they’ll take any low paying, dangerous, miserable job they can find. That’s not really an America I want to live in.
S.Curtis Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I don’t agree with your politics, Mike, but your cartoons are funny!
ferddo almost 3 years ago
But it’s okay if they’re watching Fox News, and drink the orange Kool-Aid…
Graphicsdog almost 3 years ago
Wrong Lester! The bears are just hungry. https://www.ibtimes.com/us-hunger-rate-drops-lowest-during-pandemic-thanks-stimulus-checks-3197014
ndblackirish97 almost 3 years ago
Chipotle is raising their wages to $15/hr and offering referral incentives to employees. As result, restaurant competitors are freaking out: how dare they adjust wages to meet inflation. In other news, Denny’s is also raising wages. If you’re freaking out that unemployment pays better than jobs that wants you to live off tips, then you’re on the wrong side of the argument.
DrDon1 almost 3 years ago
^ So Lester thinks he is funny … He sure isn’t truthful or insightful!
jhayesd31 almost 3 years ago
Its not like Tucker Carlson is going g to watch himself
mlester101 creator almost 3 years ago
Irrefutable law of nature: feed the bears you get lazy bears and more of them. Ask Marriott: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-bz-marriott-signing-bonus-orlando-20210511-lzl4svuofnhcbm7vplhhn32uw4-story.html
Neat '33 almost 3 years ago
Along with myself, there are millions of people wondering “why” the un-employed would want to go back to work when the government is paying them more then their employer is/would ?