April 1, 2021
By Jim Probasco
President Joe Biden’s nearly $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan, (click here) unveiled Wed., March 31, 2021, proposes a multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure and jobs investment over eight years, paid for with what the administration calls a “Made in America Corporate Tax Reform Plan,” over the next decade and a half.
The biggest chunk, $1.3 trillion, would go toward infrastructure spending on two fronts, transportation and community. The balance, more than $980 billion, would involve investments in R&D, workforce development, manufacturing, and eldercare.
What follows is a breakdown of proposed spending before negotiations between Republicans and Democrats begin in earnest....
...The number of long-term unemployed (click here) (those jobless for 27 weeks or more), at 4.2 million, was essentially unchanged in April but is 3.1 million higher than in February 2020.
These long-term unemployed accounted for 43.0 percent of the total unemployed in April. (See table A-12.)...So sure is the Montana Governor that there is no chronicly unemployed in his state, he is ending the federal $300 per week and instead providing a work bonus. That spells lazy, lazy, lazy all over it.
...Beginning June 27, (click here) unemployed workers in the state will no longer receive $300 in weekly extra benefits funded by the federal government through Sept. 6.
The state will launch a new program to give bonuses to unemployed workers who return to work....
Yes, indeed. People on unemployment are just generally lazy, no-good people. They understand money though when it is waved under their noses.
...“Montana is open for business again, but I hear from too many employers throughout our state who can’t find workers. Nearly every sector in our economy faces a labor shortage,” Gianforte said in a statement....
It is called Job Training that comes in the Biden Job's Bill which hasn't passed Congress to develop those training programs for jobs of the future.
How did I ever guess that both the Montana and South Carolina governors are Republicans. That is the opinion of Republican Governors, that people on unemployment are not good people. They are lazy and have to be provided an incentive to MAKE THEM WORK!
Get out the whips and dogs if necessary! Heck those dogs haven't been feed for at least a week. That oughta do it.
Yes, indeed. Republicans know how to win over American sentiment, through hate and fear. Works well for them.
Unemployed men and women have families and they need those federal dollars to make ends meet. Those receiving those monies can challenge the State's bad attitude in court to return the monies owed them. If necessary, the unemployed, especially the chronically unemployed, should demand their governors begin training programs so they can fulfill their hopes of the American Dream.
