"It's time for people to get back to work and open schools"
Yet you're demeaning to those with jobs you feel are beneath you.
You are a condescending asshole. You sound like those snotty bitches in viral Starbucks and fast food videos.
Bonnie, "And one day you will regret open borders !" I regretted open borders 55 years ago. I knew it would get worse.
But you to certify you are looking and available for work.
If you tell them you are sick, you don't get paid.
They have suspended the requirement that you tell them where you applied, but if you tell them you didn't look, you don't get paid.
EA......yes people here didn't want to work when covid19 started and places were closing. People were getting $600/week from Fed and $280 from state plus the lump sum they got depending on eligibility. Of course that ended in July but employers were struggling to get people back for obvious reasons. Perfect reason repubs don't want that again. It's time for people to get back to work and open schools. This is seriously setting kids back big time.
@TBR
Yes and no. It's kinda skewed. If you are on UI, you are classified as unemployed. There are people who are on it, that ain't looking.
There is a little bit of truth to the Repubs argument that people will NOT look if it pays equal or more than they were making beforehand.
The San Diego unemployment rate is 8 percent, which is lower than the state average of 8.8.
Last year at this time it was 2.8%.
You seem to think some jobs are below others. All legal work work is valuable. The world needs janitors and burger flippers.
Just shows your contempt for you fellow humans.
To be considered unemployed, you need to be actively seeking work.
Not the case with the moms...
@JC
Yes, our Unemployment is VERY friggin high. It is one of the worst in the US. Yes, Alabama's is low and one of the lowest in the US.
I do not know the exact why, but I have some ideas. I honestly think a very large chunk of that is in the hospitality sector. I read an interesting thing recently about how the airlines are adjusting their flights. It's really hard to get flights to 'business' cities because people are really embracing Zoom. They have adjusted their flights to where people want to fly. That destination is leisure. This is the strangest thing I have ever seen honestly. For me to fly from LAX to MCO, with a 7-day advance, the roundtrip ticket is anywhere from $98 to $140. Yes, that is FRIGGIN round trip. If I want to go to Atlanta, or NYC or Chicago, it is 300+.
We have a metric fuckton of restaurants. In my little area alone, IIRC, there was a report that we had close to 1000 places to eat in a town that is about 200k people. I know our town's main business is tourism. Our hotels have been spotty at being open, our restaurants have had to lay tons of people off. I suspect that has a lot to do with our unemployment being so high. I know in my field, the demand is still very high for the supply on the type of jobs. Where my wife works, they are hiring.
I do think there is another issue at play here for CA vs. AL. I think it may have to do with the schools. A few friends of mine have mentioned that their wives are not going to back to work because the kids are not in school. They want to be home with the kids. My friends have stated that their wives would consider going back to work after the school reopens, but they are not convinced that they will.
This is something that I should walk down the hall and talk to Mark Schniepp. He is often on TV. He is kind of a dick, but we get along. He does a ton of econ forecasts for CA and companies.
Texas authorities looking for a tanker truck with 80 people smuggled across the border . They call it human trafficking . Police received a call from a guy claiming he was in a tanker truck with 80 people couldn’t get out
The police traced the call to a truck stop in San Antone . By the time police got there the truck had moved but they did get information on what they think is the truck from the truck stop videos.
EA......California unemployment rate is 9%. Alabama at 3.9%. Birmingham USED to have tent cities you say. I never saw them but will take your word. Alabama is progressing and California is regressing. Lol
“We don't have open borders“
Again , one day you will regret open boarders !
Why do people assume drugs come from across the border? Is it because scarface taught you that?
More deaths are opioid-based. Opioids are prescription (read as Sacklers and Oxy), Heroin, and Fentanyl. Purdue Pharma, the company that made Oxy closed down last year, paid over 8bn in fines and admitted to guilt in their role. Fentanyl comes in the mail. Yes, there were lots of reports of people just buying the shit and having it fed-exed to them. Heroin is a lot harder to come by. Of the three opioids, heroin is the least cause of death.
So this has nothing to do with borders.
And the capital of the opioid crisis? Well, that depends. If you want to say OXY, it was South Florida and the pill mills. If you want to say Fentanyl, that was southern Ohio. AGAIN . . . economic issue!
@JC
You are so stuck on one thing that you keep missing the topic at hand.
Homeless people are a byproduct of lack of employment. Yes, there are SOME, who are homeless due to mental issues, but economic issues cause homelessness. When factories closed in Detroit, people became homeless.
IF and you keep forgetting to read that first word, the IF, MB was to close tomorrow, there would be a homeless issue there. Alabama is NOT immune to economic issues.
Birmingham may not have a tent city today, but they did in the past.
al. com/news/2015/11/homelessness_in_alabama.html - There is Birmingham
al. com/news/mobile/2016/05/move_to_clear_homeless_tent_ci_1.html There is one in Mobile.
We don't have open borders.
And one day you will regret open borders !
And it is mostly legal pills diverted to illegal use.
So no border required.
Just ask the Sackler family...
@Flip , Trump had some type of program that if needed say addicted you could get prescription opioids.
This sounds odd because just a few years ago we were busting these pain clinics. Biden just changed this , Ohio is real upset because now it creates a market for heroin.
What comes across the border is heroin , from Central America and Afghanistan . This heroin is for the people who can’t get opioids. But the bigger picture is the fentanyl . Fentanyl is easier to transport , a smaller bit goes a lot farther . I have been told fentanyl is 50 times more powerful then pure morphine. . This comes almost exclusively from China across the Texas border . ( cartels. ) . Never seen the Cartels and don’t want to .
I'd bet the opiod issue in Alabama is due to Florida being right next to it. Isn't Florida the opiod capital of the world ? The panhandle is southern Alabama. Love that area actually.
Your Democratic impeachment managers need it too !
You should...
Lol , get more practice !
Swing and a miss...
More opioids coming across the Mexican USA border as we speak
Alabama has a higher rate of opiod death than California.
EA.......I can be civil or I can be the biggest dick you ever meet. I respond the way I am approached. Don't be an ass and then be a pussy when someone gets back in your face. Nothing else to say on that.
MBUSI sells cars to over 150 countries. They are working hard to be almost all EV. They aren't going anywhere anytime soon. You can bank on that. If you think otherwise then you are ignorant.
Birmingham has no tent cities. Can you count they have 0. They also provide no safe place for drug addicts to shoot up. That's right 0. We support our Police we don't Defund the Police. That is the stupidity of libs.
