1st hundred days why am I not surprised ?

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6+% unemployment with millions of job openings that can’t be filled because federal unemployment assistance makes it more advantageous for people to stay home than work.

I wholeheartedly agree with most of the information presented, all but this particular piece.

Speaking from what was once the inside of that loop, I'm not buying the sentiment that folks are not going back to work because they are getting too much Federal money. I got the covid unemployment payments for a few weeks, but that ended last year. They were $600.00 a week, not the 900 a week that news shills are currently claiming. Oh, I was approved for an "indefinite extension", but was refused access to file weekly claims, so that alleged extension meant exactly squat - I got a nice letter proving and granting my eligibility, and that's it. There was no actual money or any payments attached to it. Maybe I could just frame the letter...

I never got ANY of the alleged "stimulus payments". Not a single damned dime of them. None, going all the way back to the Bush Stimulus. Not one thin dime, of ANY of them. I think they are just sound bites for the news to haggle over, and not anything that actually happens on the ground, or at the bank account, in the real world.

So it ain't "federal unemployment assistance" that is the hold-back. I'm told there are help wanted signs popping up around here like daisies after an April shower, and no one is applying for the openings. I know that a government contractor has sent me, at last count, 20 recruitment e-mails, from the same contractor. Smells of desperation to me. A couple of days ago I got another e-mail from Amazon, recruiting for a manager position, "Manager of Distribution Services" in a facility a couple hours from here that they are apparently trying to open.

It's neither federal money nor lack of jobs that is the hold back. It's the damned covid hysteria, and draconian government measures to keep us in line and show us who is boss - and that it ain't the citizens who are the boss any more. I'm not even tempted to apply for a job where I have to wear a muzzle for 8 or 10 hours a day to prove my loyalty to "The Party". They can kiss my unmasked ass. I'm no longer in the market for government contract work, either. It would be hypocritical of me to advise fine young men to run screaming away from the military recruitment centers due to the current regime and their unstable approach to "defense", and at the same time accept work defense contracting to that same unstable regime. Likewise for Amazon - I cannot, with a clear conscience, accept employment with a company that supports The Regime's destruction of my country, one that goes so far as to use it's own private infrastructure to support government censorship and the silencing of political views of the government's opposition. If I won't buy from them, it would be hypocritical to work for them.

It's not ALL on the BidenHarris regime, though. I live behind enemy lines, in the Soviet Socialist State of Virginia (used to be a "commonwealth", and still makes that claim, without evidence). A lot of it is on Ralph Northam and his draconian anti-science covid measures. I will not be working again until those measures are gone, and we are moving back towards freedom in Virginia. I can lay in my bed and shoot deer and rabbits out of the bedroom window far more easily than I can fight for my daily breath through a covid muzzle. If you want to improve the economy and unemployment, then give folks the freedom to work. The only way to open an economy is to give it the freedom to breathe. Anything else is just more totalitarian bullshit.

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A good point.

Around me everyone is hiring but they say no one is applying. Then I hear it's hard to find a job. The two do not reconcile. 

As you point out, the governmental reaction to the C19 boogie man has really destabilized the economy. Normally if labor is scare, companies would offer better pay and benefits. Not happening at least as far as I can see. A few hiring bonuses here and there but that's it. Kind of anemic. 

As you point out, there is a social issue too. The information campaign really put the wet pants fear in a portion of the population. A lot of unclear thinking going on. 

POV Observation warning: I have noticed a lot more people around me going to, for lack of a better term, the individual or local network economy. People selling skills or stuff to other people directly. No store or third party. It's probably a very natural thing for humans to do. Not artificial. I could be wrong.