Lazy Culture

"Where's my check!"  That phrase seems to be a synonym for the American people.  We're all looking at how we can get rich quick, or make a quick buck.  We want to get things for free.  It seems the only thing the government is good at is writing checks.  I heard a story from an anonymous worker at Ford saying that the company was trying to hire engineers but they were having problems getting them. The biggest reason all the potential employees did not come back was because they were recieving unemployment from the government and they didn't want to get a job until after the government stopped paying them to do nothing.  That story dumbfounded me.

I respect that unemployment is important, and that many people do get laid off, especially in this economy, and they need to feed their families until they get a new job.  My problem is with the people who abuse this government service.  They are offered a job, but don't take it because they don't want to loose their unemployment!  I'm sorry but that's abusive.  

Why do we expect everything to be handed to us on a silver platter.  We expect the government to hand us everything we could ever need, and then we cry because the government raises taxes.  Grow up America!

Here's another fact for all those people out there who expect handouts, and for the rich to pay for it in taxes while no one else pays anything.  The taxes are raised on the rich, they pay 35-40% in federal income taxes, about 6% in State taxes, then you add in property, sales, and business taxes at say 10% and the rich are taxed at least 52% of their income.  Now remember that this same income is often partially used for philanthropy and investment in companies.  When someone invests a lot of money in a company, that money frees the firm up to do more work and create more jobs. 

What happens when taxes go up?  The rich and the big companies now have an incentive to offshore their income.  That means lost jobs and lost tax revenue. 

  "Since 1984 the JEC has provided factual information about the impact of the tax cuts of the 1980s. For example, for many years the JEC has published IRS data on federal tax payments of the top 1 percent, top 5 percent, top 10 percent, and other taxpayers. These data show that after the high marginal tax rates of 1981 were cut, tax payments and the share of the tax burden borne by the top 1 percent climbed sharply. For example, in 1981 the top 1 percent paid 17.6 percent of all personal income taxes, but by 1988 their share had jumped to 27.5 percent, a 10 percentage point increase. The graph below illustrates changes in the tax burden during this period." Source http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm

Now obviously the website was written during Republican congress, so they will have a conservative slant, however this all makes perfect sense from a human behavior and economics point of view.  I will stake my economics degree that that is what actually happened.  

So my point is if you are offered the job, take it and stop taking the milk from those who need it.

Byron siwelnor.