Jackson Jambalaya

What neither Reeves nor any other politician understands is this. The UI laws that have been in place for half a century result in the disqualification of anybody who is called back to work and refuses work. There is absolutely NOTHING in place in the mechanics to make this workable...not at the federal level or the state level.

People who are called back to work tomorrow or any time in the future of this federal give-away and REFUSE to return, will continue to draw their UI plus the federal add-on benefit (up to $600 a week plus state UI benefits). This will effectively cripple employers who are attempting to start back up and are scrambling to call workers back.

Since Tate, Delbert and Gunn are UI experts, all of a sudden, maybe they can figure this one out. Oh, wait, I can here Reeves now appealing to everybody's sense of Christian ethics. He'll pray about it.

Tater, as a long time teller, is effectively telling folks how to rob the bank.

@2:54
Billionaires made their money sending American Jobs overseas. Middle Class wages have been stagnant for 50 years. The price of everything is increasing and the value of the dollar is decreasing. I used to be a conservative republican but Trump has effectively turned my to UBI and the Democrat party. I just want to feed my kids and pay my mortgage and car payment. I don't care how it happens. And i don't care if Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk get taxed more to pay for it.

Yeh! More free stuff! I'm on unemployment cause guv. closed my company down.

There are a lot of jobs that simply aren't going to come back. Too many companies just found out how few employees they really need to get by. And a lot of dead weight is about to be unemployed.

It's really a moot point, as Employment Security still can't answer a phone call or return an email.

More free stuff? Like the tax breaks in the CARES Act?

"Which millionaires will come out on top? The key groups include hedge fund investors and real estate “professionals,” including developers, based on our analysis of prior IRS data on partnerships.

Hedge funds, for example, pass through ordinary losses to their investors, who, under the CARES Act, now can carry them back and reduce prior income taxes, unconstrained by the dollar limits on excess business losses.

Similarly, real estate developers also can carryback losses, and reduce prior income taxes paid. Of course, under current circumstances, other millionaires potentially could benefit substantially for their losses, like oil and gas investors and owners of sports teams."

Oh, you meant folks who actually WORK for a living and not C Corps pass throughs and hedge funds?

Well, those working class folks certainly are living high on the hog, right? That's why Mississippians are so "lazy" because they earn less than 17 bucks an hour busting their behinds for Bubbba Big Bux III, who sits on his assets. But they are getting GubMint money like the cotton farmers, the ethanol double subsidy farmers, and the soybean farmers??? Good God, they must be stopped.

Gotta get out there and file that amended corporate return for a nice cash infusion while them lazy layabouts lounge in lavish luxury with their used Kias and rent.

Yeah. Talk about your free stuff, Hoss.

Just like them "lazy" poor kids who "get over" by getting "free lunch" AND a whopping $4 a day to eat!!!!!

" The UI laws that have been in place for half a century result in the disqualification of anybody who is called back to work and refuses work."

Not exactly 2:54.

Before all of this, each work refusal issue was investigated on an individual basis. Most refusals were cut off, but not all. Many variables were taken into consideration on each case. Was it a comparable position with the same pay ? Was the former employee qualified for the new offer ? How long had this employee been out of work ? . . . such as that. My point is that it was complicated back in the "normal times".

Moreover, the biggest problem regarding refusal issues now falls on the Federal US Department of Labor.

They have failed to clarify guidelines to all 50 states on 90% of the new regulations passed since the CARES Act.

I'll be the first to point out Executive and Operational issues at the MDES, but the USDOL is to blame as well.

@254 Zuckerberg owns you already. He ain't gonna pay, you are.

Liberate the employed!!

My body my choice!!!

Tate is awesome! He’s so cool. He knows a lot about a bunch.

Try to take my guns!

Fly my flag....you bet!

Go team!

Well @ 4:04 PM.

The Capitalistic economic model did immediately respond to the results of public panic buying. (Which drastically reduced the nation's retail toilet paper supply at the start of this crap).

You still might not have access to Charmin Extra Soft, but a basic dollar store pack of TP is better than a damn banana leaf the "people" have to use in Communist Venezuela. (If they are even lucky to access a soft banana leaf)

You can thank Capitalism for the basic toilet paper resupply.

Sorry for the elementary Econ lesson.

Venezuela is broke because crooks are in charge, not because of their form of government. Look at food insecurity, medical bankruptcies, infant mortality, life expectancy, deaths of despair and income inequality in the U.S. and get back to me on what a success our economic model has been.

I got diabetes, and they want me to go back to work,,,

Democrats have taught all of America the value of 'something for nothing'. It's been instilled in all of us now (and for decades) to seek out 'something for nothing' and to live our lives within that model. We are swimming in the petri-dish of socialism and life is good.

The notion of 'What can I get for the least amount of sacrifice' is rampant. And 'sacrifice' in this context means labor, effort, physical movement or mental strain. We have become conditioned to expect and accept that which is handed to us. And, we don't like expectations and strings being attached, so, typically, none are.

Democrats could not have planned this march toward full socialism any better if they had tried. But...wait.

I have 30ish employee's, have never shut down but 5 of them are getting 700 a week and won't come back to work, con-artist.

If they can print money from nothing for nukes, stealth bomber jet, and submarines, then they can print it for me to play Nintendo all day and watch anime.

Keep listening to those folks on FOX, the keep saying the country should open up while they are still working from home and will be for the foreseeable future.

" If they can print money from nothing for nukes, stealth bomber jet, and submarines "

Very good use of my tax money.

Other than that, your comment has put the band Dire Straits in my head.
"Money for nothin' and your chicks for free " .

7:06 - I can't prove it, but neither can you disprove it...but it's my belief that roughly 10% of furloughed employees are 'working from home'. Furlough, by definition, means you're sent home, with company benefits, remaining on the company employee books, but are not being paid or allowed to work.

And it's a fact that ZERO laid off employees are working from home. Those who are allowed by their employer to 'work from home' are NOT unemployed and, unless committing fraud, are NOT drawing federal or state UI. So your input in this discussion is of no value.

I spoke with a couple of small business owners who were trying to hire people...they said they couldn't compete with the 600.00 a week Federal Assistance to not work...(15.00/hr)

Knowing someone who's job is to take and approve applications for "Free Stuff", can be depressing.

They told me so much money was just handed out after Katrina without any checks.

The next hurricane that made the news in Florida, started a rumor. Their office had to stop answering the phone because they were swamped with calls asking how to get the "Hurricane Money".