Obama's Job Bill Clearly Misses the Mark

THE DOCTOR IS IN _______________

LAS VEGAS- Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

Obama's job bill is being pushed as a panacea to our problems in this failing, dire economy. The bill has large, gaping flaws. One is Obama extending the unemployment benefits for the people that has not been working for over two years. That particular part of the bill does not help the economy. It takes the taxpayers money, those working middle class people, and provides a crutch for those wanting to stay unemployed. The longer a person is unemployed and is collecting a FREE check form Uncle Sam , the less incentive they have of going out and working for a paycheck.

Most of the research and literature show that these long-term unemployed people would rather collect the free money instead of working at a minimum wage job. All Obama is doing is starting a new sub-class of people and enabling the unemployed to live without working for a salary. Christ, when a person does not work for over two years I say there is a problem. I would suspect that the unemployed person refuses to accept employment in any shape or form.

My suggestion to Obama and his colleagues - - STOP the continual unemployment extensions. Each 13 week extension costs us taxpayers at least $12 Billion dollars. Put a limit on the weeks a person can collect unemployment benefits. Let the person collect the benefits for 13 weeks, then give that person ONE extension of an additional 13 weeks. That's it! When that unemployed person knows that they cannot collect any further benefits after being unemployed for six months I predict that the individual will find a job within that six month period. If they don't, then, tough love. They can look to their relatives and family and friends for assistance but the working people of this country should not be obligated to support a whole, new class of people and reward them for not working and contributing to society.

The other part of this jobs bill that I find disgusting is that when Obama went before the people to push the bill he surrounded himself with Teachers, Firemen and Policemen and other public employees promising them a boost and jobs from the new bill. Again, he misses the point by pandering to the public employee unions and trolling for the union votes. Instead of using a jobs bill to pay outlandish union salaries, benefits, bonuses guaranteed cost of living increases and lavish retirements and pensions for these public employee union personnel he should be using the monies for boots on the ground workers in the private sector like the nonunion construction worker, the roofers, the single mom waitresses, the secretaries and office workers, the John and Jane Doe's who work in the private sector and those nonunion service industries who cannot enjoy these guaranteed cost of living increases of 4, 5, 6 and 7 percent a year.

The money in this jobs bill should be directed to those workers that keep this country humming by working hard every day, those people who build something or invent something or start a small business on their own and contribute to the economy and who do not have guaranteed health care, fat obscene pensions and retirement plans to count on. Instead, Washington decides to provide guaranteed employment high wages, and a very comfortable retirement for Federal , State, County and City public employees through this give-a-way but ignores the real people that need the jobs.

What does a public employee contribute to the society and economy? Nothing. They don't build anything and they don't invent anything. All of them are on the taxpayers dime, collecting the high salaries, bonuses, COLA's and pensions from the working people of this country.- And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at: bradleykuhns@gmail.com