Comments on: Florida Ending $300 Weekly Federal Pandemic Unemployment Payments

By: @Bob

@Bob — Sat, 29 May 2021 14:28:02 +0000

Your answer for everything is just to print more money and give it away.

Answer this: How much of my money belongs to people who aren’t working? Tell me how much. And why.

Are you aware of what the national debt is? Does that mean anything to you?

Of course it doesn’t. I bet you don’t work either.

By: SRCguy

SRCguy — Thu, 27 May 2021 07:30:01 +0000

@bob. Florida passed the 15 dollar an hour minimum wage.
There is nothing wrong with going to work and improving yourself to make more money. The handouts need to stop. All we are doing is increasing the number of people that rely on the government to live. If people sit on their butt and just get a check from the govt, they will never be able to gain the skill sets to earn a decent living. No one gets ahead in life by being lazy and wanting a handout.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 26 May 2021 22:13:56 +0000

I truly don’t understand this community.

There are so many people in this area who claim to be patriots who love their country, but when their neighbors (the same essential workers you were calling “heroes” and “essential” last year) ask for enough money to live, you sneer and mock them.

Do you want to know why there are so many drug dealers in our country? Because that is the only way many people can find to pay for their necessities.

Why do we have a homeless crisis? Because minimum wage doesn’t pay enough to afford a house.

Why are birthrates falling? Because the next generation can’t afford to keep themselves alive, let alone provide for a child.

Do you really want to Make America Great Again? That starts by helping your neighbor and providing them the tools they need to build a better life for themselves.

By: Cantonment man

Cantonment man — Wed, 26 May 2021 16:28:13 +0000

@ Molino, AMEN THAT! get a trade or profession and MAKE yourself worth $15 an hour. I did. No privilege here. Nobody gave me a thing. I had to go back to school and EARN it. The gravy train ran out of fuel a long time ago.

By: James

James — Tue, 25 May 2021 21:58:28 +0000

So many people saying “Finally, let’s get to work.” For what? Work a dead-end retail job again that hardly pays the bills again to have a bunch of middle age people barking at us because God forbid they’re slightly inconveniences? Nah, I’m good. Quarantine was a weird catch 22. No more dealing with the rude customers again and being overworked for low pay, but of course, the virus is bad. What if some of us are/or live with those who are high risk? Like cancer patients? Half of this state refuses to get vaccinated and weren’t wearing masks from the start. Unemployment and COVID relief should not be generally lawed and should be determined via a person’s individual situation. Some may no longer qualify, some may still.

By: Lebowski

Lebowski — Tue, 25 May 2021 16:00:11 +0000

@Floridian
Because once you set a standard of $15 at the bottom end for unskilled labor it simply becomes the new bottom. Wages will rise (most likely not proportionately)for those who have worked and promoted themselves from the bottom, and living expenses rise for all. A $15 an hour employee who was struggling to pay a $1000/month in living expenses at $8, will continue to struggle as their living expenses steadily rise to $1900.

The only way to break that cycle is the either improve yourself and your wages, or have the Government provide more for you. In the second case we all foot the bill.

By: Floridian

Floridian — Tue, 25 May 2021 14:39:58 +0000

@Harvey

$15 an hour is about $31,000 a year before taxes. I’m not sure what reality you live in, but nobody with that salary would even be approved for a loan on a “$300,000 house” or a “$70,000 car”. You may not have realized it since working your noble, heroic $1 an hour job, but the world progresses with or without you. Also, just curious, why does someone flipping burgers or waiting tables and serving people as unpleasant as you NOT deserve $15 an hour?

I haven’t been able to understand why the people who claim they’re for the working class have such a disdain for low-wage workers.

By: Charlotte Schwartz

Charlotte Schwartz — Tue, 25 May 2021 13:41:19 +0000

Hey My Two Cents fast food places were never meant to be a permanent unless you want to be manager. It was for young people to learn how to get hire (writing skills by writing a resume), customer skills (needed in a lot of jobs), time skills (getting up and getting to work at time required). These skills will help them to get other jobs. So if you want to start paying these employees $15.00 an hour then don’t expect to be paying $5.00 for a hamburger. Most young people today want to get out of college and get a job paying $80,000.00+ a year. That just doesn’t happen all the time. You have to build your working skill. But again young people today want more and more things that are very expensive. Want $15.00 an hour get a GOOD education, working skills and a good attitude!! A lot of kids working fast food places have a terrible attitudes and that’s where Customer Skills come in. So start slow and then speed up by moving up.

By: Bewildered

Bewildered — Tue, 25 May 2021 13:11:49 +0000

I guess the liberals should have done a better job killing off all the old folks with Covid. With prices bound to be going through the roof no one can survive on social security anymore.. And hence the race begins- higher wages- then higher benefits – followed by higher prices for all – then a surprise to the “Woke” generation that the standard of living will remain stagnant In spite of it. Tragic that all these “living wage” warriors have no clue how an economy works. The super rich won’t pick up one dime of the freeloaders’ guaranteed income for sitting around playing with their I phones all day. If Trump, the Obamas, Bill Gates, Pelosi, Biden. The Clintons, Bushes, athletes, actors (I could go on and on) would distribute their enormous assets to this income sharing idea I might agree , but fat chance! Keep dreaming

By: ROBERT

ROBERT — Tue, 25 May 2021 12:48:29 +0000

people are mad because they will not get free 300$ a week now..well to bad..get a job at 10$ an hour and you will still have that 300$ a week…Live within your means and you will be fine…be an old school worker and earn your own money…work hard and advance. It is possible if you want it bad enough.