It's because many people are learning the system. The system that says, I don't have to do shit and can stay on welfare for a long time, collect a check and not work. If you could sit and home, not lift a finger and collect a check wouldn't you? OK, maybe not, maybe you like working, but the fact of the matter is that people don't want to work.
I currently live in one of the poorest counties in the state of Michigan. 70% of the people who live here are on government assistance. I have put ads in the paper, talked to friends, and anything else I could do to find people to do work around my house, paying $8-10/hr cash. Last year I had a guy that worked for 3 days, doing simple yard work, raking leaves, cleaning the beach. Everyday we paid him cash, paid for his lunch, etc. We let him do the work, no one pressured him, he just stopped showing up because if they caught him working he would loose his disability.
Believe it or not there are just a lot of lazy people out there, we are still looking for people to work for us around our house and no one wants to.
The 6% unemployment rate or whatever it is, is made up mostly of simply lazy people, the rest are honest hard working people who happened to get laid off and cannot really find work (just because they dont want to work at MickeyD's to feed the family).
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