UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS SHOULD NOT BE EXTENDED.THIS TEMPORARY PROGRAM  SHOULD BE CANCELED.

THE KUHNS REPORT

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

Here we go again with restoring unemployment benefits. As I have stated in previous blogs, the Congress should not restore these benefits. The 13 weeks of benefits plus an additional 13 weeks as provided by the states is more than sufficient for the unemployed person. Six months to find a job is more than plenty. If the person can't find a job in 6 months there is something wrong. Either that person doesn't want a job or the person  set their sites on living off the system.

Folks, it is  fact that when a person is unemployed for over six months they begin to not look for work. I say there is no reason to support a group of people for years on end by giving them a benefit check. These people learn to live within that  amount of free monies and refuse to take meaningful employment. In my research dealing with the unemployed, especially those collecting long term benefits,  many of those people told me that they have given up looking for work. Others told me they could manage their life just fine on the benefits from the unemployment checks. Still other have said they go through the motions of looking for a job by filling out applications only for the sole purpose of receiving their unemployment checks.

People,the federal unemployment  benefits program was only supposed to be temporary but now years later we, the taxpayers, are subsidizing these unemployed people while they continue to collect years of benefits. That's WRONG. And, the Washington lawmakers continue to allow this faulty, inappropriate program to go forward. The cost to pay these benefits for only 3 months runs in excess of $25 million dollars. That money could be going to our poverty children, our ruined roads, bridges, faulty electrical grids that affect  most every city in the United States. Hell just in New York City alone the sewer pipes and plumbing beneath the city was built n the 1800's. The recent gas explosion in New York City that took out a number of apartment building causing injury, death and destruction should attest to that fact. Yet, Congress insists on supporting a special class of people. Go figure.

Congress says they are near an agreement to pay out these millions and allow these long term unemployed to again collect for THREE (3) to SIX (6) months, depending on who is  speaking and what side of the political aisle that Congress person is on.

I am totally against this federal fiasco. I believe it should have been shut down years ago. What is it with the Feds? Once they say they are putting a program in place that is TEMPORARY that program gets a life of it's own and goes on forever with the blessing of our idiot lawmakers.

I would suggest that if Congress in their mentally deficient  wisdom decides to pass this extended unemployment program they DO NOT make it retroactive which they have been saying they intend to do. I say if the  program is extended the renewed benefits begin he day it passes. I do not think these long term unemployed people should be receiving a lump sum in months of retroactive payments. That act is like throwing gasoline on the fire. That will give these chronic unemployed still another reason not to look for work. Their attitude will be "I have a wad of money in my pocket" and still can collect more for months, if not years.

I only hope that Congress wakes up and  faces reality and does not renew this unemployment extension. Better yet,  CANCEL and REPEAL this boondoggle. Again, 26 weeks of state unemployment benefits are sufficient for anyone. The unemployed will clearly know that they will have to find some type of gainful employment or look to relatives and family to support them. Good luck with that after a  couple of weeks living off relatives and family.- And, that's my opinion. Make your own decision. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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