I don't understand how a little money makes only poor people lazy is just universally accepted, even business school professors and PhD students believe this (source: I am a B-school academic). The macro-economists (or modern day priests) have dreamt up a reality that is full of holes and contradictions but it has become so entrenched in our culture that everyone blindly believes this BS.

Sorry, but when the Government gives Americans money they’ll spend it faster than if Americans earn their money. It’s human nature and economists know it’s inflationary. Hard earned money is more dear and held by Americans than free money.

This explains the U.S. economy now and especially the Biden administration economy strategy. The answer to this problem is painfully (after being off work so long), that people must go back to work, now. The free money will be stopped when it hurts most by interest rate increases this summer and the welfare “free money” halting. Believe it.

I talk to so many people who have retired early because of the “free money” and COVID policies without planning well for inflation.

I talk to relatively young people who have quit their jobs thinking they can make big money in this COVID, freebies, low interest rate, reliance on Tech, Green Energy, bullshit stock market.

It’s frightening to think that someday the old and the young will wake up to find quitting their jobs was a huge mistake. And the longer they are unemployed, the worse their “Resumes” look in order to be rehired.

The smartest Americans are making great money in jobs and businesses that are paying crazy incentive money to combat this “intentional” labor shortage.

So, what’s really going on? It’s all about the Biden administration’s power being ONLY in their own corrupt Democratic Congress with supporting RINOs. Think about this! They have no power with the majority of people.

Therefore, they must destroy the hard working majority of people (not their rich donors, though) by their 1.) awful policies of mandates to quit your job, 2.) free money to quit your job, 3.) fear to ruin any pleasure to quit your job, 4.) expensive energy to kill the business of your job,
5.) school closures to keep parents home and out of their jobs, 6.) border policies where illegals can take your job 7.) flat out small business closures to remove you job and most hideous is 8.) insane policies keeping a generation of children out of school so they can’t get a job.

The Biden socialistic policies go on and on with the bottom line being to weaken the power of the select hard working majority of people by destroying jobs and their ability to get a job.

This is not a pleasant post or message. But the message comes down to one thing. Don’t follow this Biden administration off their cliff. GO, to work, build that business, vote them out!

Order, order!

Minister's Questions are now in order!

The Secretary of State for Work and Welfare, /u/SpectacularSalad, will be taking questions from the House.

As Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Welfare, /u/Adith_MUSG may ask 6 initial questions.

As Work and Welfare Spokesperson of Major Unofficial Opposition Parties, /u/Sephronar and /u/cranbrook_aspie may ask 3 initial questions.

Everyone else may ask 2 questions; and are allowed to ask another question in response to each answer they receive. (4 in total)

Questions must revolve around 1 topic and not be made up of multiple questions.

In the first instance, only the Secretary of State or junior ministers may respond to questions asked to them. 'Hear, hear.' and 'Rubbish!' (or similar), are permitted.

This session shall end on 3 December 2021 at 10PM, no initial questions to be asked after 2 December at 10PM.

I applied for welfare because I'm not even making enough to cover my rent.

I was automatically approved because I work at Walmart. The worker the second I said walmart "oh, yeah, okay so just send in your direct deposit and banking info and we'll set up an intake meeting"...

I don't plan on being on it long, just enough to get a damn car and get working in the city.

By KalvinLokan MP, First Secretary of State

Now, I've hardly hidden my disdain for the Conservative Party, their policies, and the way that they turned one of the most thriving and industrially prosperous regions of the United Kingdom into one which suffered chronic unemployment, homelessness and crime. I've always been a major challenger of their narratives and their attempts to paint their policies as anything less than the cruel betrayal of hard-working Britons that they are, even still I found myself, jaw slammed to the ground, stood in awe as I watched the Shadow Work and Welfare Secretary discuss paying disabled and elderly workers less than they could live on, as if it was a positive, as if it was some great achievement of policy. Lets take aside that we generally want to be ensuring that elderly and disabled citizens of Britain don't have to work, but the idea that the Work and Welfare Secretary of choice for the leader of the Conservatives, believes that they should be paid so little, that they starve, or go without heating, or even without a house. With these kinds of politicians spearheading opposition policy, you can only wonder how they ever expect to be able to deliver for the ordinary people in Britain, and the simple answer is that they can't.

Similarly the Work and Welfare Secretary is happy to see pubs fail, themselves unable to be supported as the kinds of globalised businesses which operate large branched stores push them out. Yet again, a policy of the Conservatives not to protect British businesses or their workers, or even the communities, but instead to see the interests of large corporations ruling the order of the day, cutting critical bits of many communities hearts out. We're looking, not at a Minister who wants to see fair pay, but one who believes it is better for disabled and elderly people to not only work, but to work for less than they can live on, struggling as they count pennies and inevitably the Tory envisaged seeping in of the private sector into public services robs them of their ability to house, heat or heal themselves. We're looking, not at a Minister who wants to see pubs protected and local community hubs supported by strong government action, but a future where supermarket chains have taken over the social aspect of a quiet pint with your mates, and cheap booze has become a common feature in every house whilst local community pubs, some as old as the Tory party itself, are choked out of business and the

Konkret habe ich einen neuen Vorgesetzten bekommen. Nicht mehr den Technischen Leiter, welcher ohnehin zuviel zu tun hat, sondern ein paar Stufen drunter. Der TL hat mit einigen Freuden die Personalverantwortung abgegeben auch weil er selber gemerkt hat, es wird zuviel.

Ich wurde nun gefragt, welche Dinge man einführen könnte um die Work-Life/Welfare Balance zu verbessern?

Welche Dinge habt Ihr denn so in der Firma, welche "einzigartig" sind, bzw. toll-grandios sind bzw. Ihr in dieser Form so erst kennengelernt habt, bzw. Ihr stark vermisst als Ihr die Firma gewechselt habt?

Meine konkreten Vorschläge wären schon mal:

• Lessons Learned am Ende eines Projekts
• Monatliches One-on-One mit Vorgesetzten+Mitarbeiter, eine Art Mitarbeitergespräch, nicht offiziell aber auch nicht komplett inoffiziell
• Am Ende eines (guten oder auch schlechten) Projekts ein Abschlussessen
• Weiterbildungskurse und Abteilungsausflüge

(ich bin in der Automatisierungstechnik tätig, falls das von Bedeutung sein sollte)

What it should say is: "Work harder, millionaires on corporate welfare depend on you."

Hello Fellow Masochists!

I’ve been in the child welfare field for almost a decade, and have been a part of area office management for about 6 years now. We haven’t been able to hire line workers for months on end, and our existing staff, myself included, are really scrambling just to get by (I’ve been doing my usual job plus field work to cover). State child welfare social work is always pretty horrifically challenging, but it’s hard to have any hope that things will improve since we cant get people on board to save our lives. It’s also tough because our families (and staff for that matter) are struggling more than ever and the necessary resources just aren’t there… State jobs are usually pretty competitive because the pay is some of the best in the field, but we have postings that literally don’t get one singular applicant, and the handful we do get are wildly under qualified. I don’t blame people at all for not wanting to go into state child welfare, but I’m deeply worried about our kids and their futures with the skeleton crew we’re working with on top of all of the other systemic issues we’re working against.

It's a classic one, I know, but what's the answer actually? Say you earn more by staying on welfare rather than working, what's incentivizing you to actually work? What's the point of doing so if you can live comfortably enough without doing anything? And plus how would that be solved in a socialist society?

Sorry if this question sounds reactionary but I have no idea how to counter this argument.

#Statement by the Secretary of State for Work and Welfare on the Minimum Wage

Madame Speaker,

As per the rules set out in the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, I am glad to say that both houses have supported the Government’s proposal for a real living wage. As such from the 1st of January in this coming year, I can announce that every worker aged 18 or over will be entitled to at least £11.40, and those under 18 will receive at least £8 an hour.

For too long in this country, we have subsidised starvation wages with state handouts. This is not the fault of the employee, but the employer. We in this Government want a high skill, high wage economy, and it is not acceptable for businesses to leave workers working full time reliant on state handouts to survive.

We are not anti-employer, but we believe that when a business comes to this country, uses labour produced by the hard work of the people of this country, and the investment of their taxes into training and infrastructure, businesses have a social responsibility to their workers. The fact that anyone can go home from a full time job without enough money to live on demonstrates that businesses are not living up to their responsibility in this area.

These changes not only support that goal of a high skill, high wage economy, but they support young people and apprentices as well. Historically a person has not been entitled for the full National Minimum Wage until they reached 23 years of age, lowered to 21 in the 2020 regulations. This however is patently unfair, as their cost of living will not be kind enough to scale comparably.

As such, everyone aged 18 or older will receive the same Living Wage, with those under 18 retaining a reduced rate to encourage hiring of young people in education for part time roles.

For comparison, the following represents the change in wages from the 2020 regulations:

For a person aged 16 to 17, the minimum wage will increase from £4.55 an hour to £8 an hour, providing an increase of £3.45 an hour (up 76%).

For a person aged 18 to 20, the minimum wage will increase from £6.45 an hour to £11.40 an hour, providing an increase of £4.95 an hour (up 77%).

For a person aged 21 or over, the minimum wage will increase from £8.72 an hour to £11.40 an hour, providing an increase of £2.68 an hour (up 31%).

Finally, for an Apprentice, the minimum wage will increase from £4.15 an h

I want to be very careful asking this question, but this is something I have heard repeatedly from family members, and it seems odd enough that I wanted to verify it, but searching around seems to only come up with very obviously political sources.

The story goes that the US government, in a misguided effort to support widows without providing support to otherwise able people, put policies into place that effectively made it so that only families without an able-bodied man in the household would receive full payments. This resulted in the upheaval of family dynamics and a huge increase in the number of unmarried parents, but also led (through the welfare trap of reduced benefits once someone was working) to multiple generations where no one has worked.

I... feel, certainly, like this is a problematic story, but I would love to know more about what actually happened, as well as where this story might have come from.

The family member in question has a number of interesting beliefs, and is fairly stubborn, but hard data (the more numbers the better) often is successful in helping them reevaluate.

I know this is a tense subject, so I apologize if anything I said is offensive, I would very much like information one way or another.